Words similar to glancing

Example sentences for: glancing

How can you use “glancing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

As a guest in a Thai household I was drying my hands on a towel when, glancing down, I noticed some writing on it.
Cruising slowly and smoothly, sitting low in the driver’s seat, glancing out at the street, nodding the head slightly when being recognized, all these make up an experience only a Chicano low rider who has invested lots of time and money in his car can appreciate.
If White House aides have to keep glancing over their shoulders to see if a Ken Starr is chasing them with a harpoon, that is no bad thing.
Tolstoy's rendering of Anna Karenina's magic in her black ball gown, or of Princess Betsy's décolletage at the theater, stand out as examples, along with Henry James' magnificent glancing allusions to the emotional power generated by a rustle, a ribbon, the drawing on of a pair of gloves.
They try to act as if they're right but suggest by their behavior that they might well be wrong--akin to a person who turns one way at an intersection and then keeps glancing anxiously at the rearview mirror.