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How to use glance in a sentence

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A young barmaid brought Doran a drink, grinning at him mischievously, but he didn't even glance at her.
I glance around nervously but the car park is round the back of the warehouse and everything seems fairly deserted.
Her scathing glance slid over me, taking in the baggy shirt and long skirt.
Trey smiled at her apologetically before turning and shooting a longing glance over his shoulder.
Throwing my own vehicle a last, longing glance in the Ford tester parking lot, I resigned myself to a long week.
He went back to the other children and was as quiet as a mouse, but he kept stealing a glance towards the fireplace.
A couple of times he'd waylaid me, asking if I'd glance over his curriculum.
A glance at a thrush distribution map reveals that summer range extends as far north as the birch scrub zone on the Kola peninsular.
That view is a tendentious reading of the legal materials, as a quick glance at Article I reveals.
If I glance over to my bag on the floor there's a shape about the thickness of two reams of paper in it.
With a glance in the rear-view, the driver pulled onto the road and picked up speed.
A glance at a field guide will indicate the vast area occupied by breeding curlews.
The serifs, though distracting to a small minority, allow the reader to glance over words at an alarming pace.
The airy feathers on her wings bristled suddenly, and she turned an alarmed glance to the ceiling.
A retrospective glance at the 2000-2001 regular season offers ample proof of blatant mismatches.
I glance in the wing mirror of the car and check how I look, I'm so nervous and my hands are shaking as I push my fringe away from my eyes.
As he walked off-stage, he cast a glance of recognition towards those seated in the second aisle.
However, the covers are generally woeful, neither standing out at first glance amidst a crowded newsstand, or providing any lasting meaning.
With one glance at the palace interior, he could tell that the Oscillians had pulled out all the stops for this grand gala evening.
A glance at a map shows the woodchat to be well distributed as a summer visitor in much of Europe.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Indeed, the glance which met his own seemed to Orme to be disarmingly good-natured.
Erika cast a glance of amazed bewilderment at him as he thrust her out of the door.
Here in the shout that rings upon my ear, Here in the glance that curst me with forgiveness.
All her wilfulness and sauciness flashed in her eyes as she lifted her glance at last to his and answered.
He exchanged a glance with Selby and the man slipped quietly from the room.
Then, on bending forward a little to glance behind an epergne, I found a face which it surprised and pleased me to see.
A glance at the section of a compound eye will show you that all the little cones radiate from a common centre.
Julian and his advisers must have seen at a glance that if the Romans were not to attack Ctesiphon, they must retreat.
She had swung down on the other side of the horse, and her glance at him across the saddle seat was like a rapier thrust.
Instantly a soft tap at the door heralded the entrance of a person whom Philip at the first glance supposed to be a sandwich man.
Jud turned from his pan of dishwater to cast a frightened glance over his shoulder.
He looked me over now, searchingly and with a glance of mingled curiosity and anger.
The words awoke John from his enthrallment and she saw by his glance toward her that he did not comprehend their meaning.
She gave him an entreating glance that silenced his rude attempt at gallantry.
At the corral the two young men saw at a glance that the girls ponies had not been returned by cholo Sam.
At the first glance he divined my interior trouble, and I hated him for his clairvoyance.
After some time, however, Woodward's glance seemed to lose its concentrative power, and gradually to become vague and blank.
But her glance rested on the one who marched at the head, immediately after the cross-bearer.
Judith, the picture of demureness, would give him a glance that would almost create an explosion.
Then, slinging the sack up on his shoulder, he walked toward the door, giving Sim a friendly backward glance as he went out.
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