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Example sentences for "glanced"

Lexicographically close words:
glamorous; glamour; glamoured; glamours; glance; glances; glancing; gland; glandered; glanders
  1. He glanced with some surprise at the swift reappearance of the girl whom he had watched as she came up the stairs so short a time before.

  2. I saw her look up as we came in, and though she never glanced in our direction again till the cry of 'Fire!

  3. Doctor, with professional cheerfulness, before he had fairly glanced at the child.

  4. He glanced hastily over the envelopes, swallowed his breakfast, and returned to closer inspection of the correspondence.

  5. The man glanced furtively over his shoulder at the female in the buggy, who sat twitching the reins impatiently, then he hitched up closer to Marsden and held out a dime.

  6. She glanced at the paper in her hand, then looked a little surprised.

  7. Then she glanced up, as if by accident, and was filled with confusion to see Alan leaning down from his seat on the box and pointing at her, while two broad hats and two girl faces were bent forward to survey her curiously.

  8. As she drew her chair up to the table, Aunt Jane glanced up from her oatmeal.

  9. Polly glanced up at Alan's window, in the wing, to see the back of a yellow head, inside the glass.

  10. Here comes Mrs. Adams now," he added, as he glanced out of the window.

  11. And Molly glanced up to see Polly, with an anxious frown, reading intently from her own small book.

  12. Jessie, as she glanced down from the window of their room.

  13. Nevertheless, he always glanced upward to make sure that it was there when he toiled up the strip of road which led to his home when his work in the sand was done.

  14. Candida glanced at him anxiously from time to time, haunted by a vague presentiment of ill.

  15. Burne and Mariolle glanced at each other.

  16. Mariolle glanced over the journals until he was tired, and went out.

  17. To my surprise he bowed to me courteously as I glanced up.

  18. The ball had struck him on the forehead and glanced off, doing no other injury than stunning him for an instant, and tearing off the skin, which tended to infuriate him the more.

  19. How shall I describe the feelings which heaved her bosom, as her eye glanced along the barrel until it rested upon the dark form of the bear, fearing lest he should spring upon her and tear her limb from limb.

  20. It glanced around his ribs, and hitching into his backbone, I pressed him down.

  21. The first one directed a furious blow at me with a rifle; it glanced upon the barrel of my musket, and I staved the bayonet through his body.

  22. And the lawyer glanced round at the various doors, and particularly to an open one, which led from the sala to the chapel, at the farther end of the house.

  23. He glanced round at Marescotti, but it was evident he was chagrined by what he saw.

  24. Enrica raised her head and looked at him hesitatingly, glanced at her aunt, then looked at him again.

  25. This he waved up and down reflectively, rattled his stick upon the floor, and glanced indignantly from time to time at the marchesa.

  26. Not understanding what he meant by this action, the marchesa was at first inclined to resent it as a liberty, and to rebuke him; but she thought better of it, and only glanced at him haughtily.

  27. An anxious look came into her eyes, and she glanced hastily round, as if to assure herself that no one was near.

  28. She glanced round approvingly, then seated herself upon the sofa.

  29. We glanced at his fresh wet picture and opened our eyes in astonishment.

  30. Our heads grew giddy if, by chance, we glanced down into the depths by the flickering moonlight.

  31. The colonel and I glanced at each other in our great astonishment.

  32. I glanced at Narayan and lost myself in conjectures.

  33. Miss X---- glanced with apprehension at the wall thickly covered with soot and then at her pretty gown.

  34. Evidently failing to find what he was looking for, he glanced again at his sea-view, and suddenly covering his face with his hands totally collapsed.

  35. She surveyed the room with the indifference of familiarity, glanced at a new magazine, and then sat down at the desk and picked up a book she had never noticed before.

  36. When the door closed upon her he walked on rapidly; but once, before the trees had obscured Mrs. Owen's lights, he turned and glanced back.

  37. Dan glanced from her to the young people at a neighboring table.

  38. She glanced over her shoulder as they were driving back toward the gate and saw the superintendent looking after them.

  39. Her hands trembled as she glanced again at the scribbled fly leaf; and more closely at the words penciled at the bottom: "Baptized Elizabeth at Harris's.

  40. The minister turned once, a venerable figure with snowy beard and hair, and beat the path softly with his stick and glanced back, as Sylvia's red ribbon bobbed through the greenery.

  41. Mrs. Bassett glanced at her husband with alert suspicion, thinking that perhaps in her absence he had been conniving to this end with Marian.

  42. He seemed absorbed in the letter--one of a number he had taken from his bag; then he glanced up as though waiting for Dan's reply.

  43. And when he had finished and the applause ceased, he glanced about with an air of surprise and said: "Thank you, young gentlemen; it pleases me to find you so enthusiastic in your pursuit of knowledge.

  44. Dan shrugged his shoulders, and glanced at Sylvia and Mrs. Ware.

  45. Sylvia glanced up, nodded, and smiled as though affirming something Bassett had said; and then the two vanished from Dan's sight.

  46. He glanced at Harwood as though for confirmation of these details, but Dan's thoughts were elsewhere.

  47. He took off his hat and mopped his face as he glanced about.

  48. She took it from him, glanced at the first line indifferently, looked closely at the paper, and gave it back, shaking her head.

  49. Mrs. Owen glanced at Ware with a twinkle in her eyes.

  50. From time to time she glanced at her mistress, who sat bolt upright in her chair, engaged on a severe-looking piece of knitting.

  51. He glanced at Seth Weaver, who cleared his throat and gazed seaward.

  52. He spoke emphatically, and all the others glanced at him with approval; but there was no hurry.

  53. He moved in his seat, as if missing something, and glanced round the room.

  54. The elders shuffled their feet, and glanced one at another.

  55. The sailor glanced at his striking appearance and neat dress.

  56. However, he sate by him, and glanced at the Cesar which the boy shoved about a quarter of an inch in his direction.

  57. Eric, with trembling hand, wrote his apology, and Dr Rowlands glanced at it.

  58. The boy glanced at him, but took no further notice.

  59. He glanced first at the note, and then looked full at the boy, as though determined to read his character at a glance.

  60. He glanced quickly round, but the moment he had passed into No.

  61. Mr. Gordon heard a whisper, and glanced that way.

  62. As he glanced round the room, at the flushed faces of the boys, some of whom he could not recognise in the dusky atmosphere, a qualm of disgust and shame passed over him.

  63. The head-boy of the Shell collected the books, and took them to the desk; the three masters glanced casually at about a dozen, and suddenly stopped at one.

  64. A small Venetian mirror hung between the two windows; she glanced up into it.

  65. She glanced round; we still had the corner to ourselves.

  66. My mother glanced across at my father, but the man, intercepting her question, replied to it himself.

  67. In common with the rest, I glanced round languidly to see what sort of man "Mr. Horace Moncrieff" might be.

  68. We have casually glanced at some of them; but I think it will conduce to clearness if we present them statedly and group them together.

  69. So we shall give our attention for a little to the qualities of Power, of Wisdom, and of Love, and try to combine them with the idea of Justice, at which we have glanced already.

  70. The crimson and amber and purple and gold broke and mingled and glanced and gleamed on the molten sea, until we had before our eyes that very "sea of glass mingled with fire" which John saw in Apocalyptic vision.

  71. His heart clearly felt very happy, for his features glowed with so attractive an expression of pleasure and good-will, and his eyes bedewed with tears glanced so brightly, that the two young girls with evident sympathy approached him.

  72. The husband raised his head from his work: tears glanced in his eyes, and he said with emotion— “If my blood could give her her sight again, I would freely spend the last drop of it.

  73. As I glanced at this peculiarity, the one-legged man caught my eye.

  74. He glanced at her, took the ready arm of his wife, looked again at the clock, and passed out over the flat door-stone with his cocked hat and cane, as became an invalid soldier and a gentleman.

  75. A flush went up to her forehead, as, dropping her handkerchief, she raised her hand to her eyes and glanced hastily about her.

  76. Dorcas pondered the matter while the sun still crowned the heights, and glanced at her sleeping father in silence.

  77. That evening, coming home late, I saw a bright light in her room, and glanced up, as I came near.

  78. In turning the corner of the house, I passed the open window, and glanced in, as was natural.

  79. At last, she glanced at Lavrétzky, and stopped short: so wonderful and strange did his face appear to her.

  80. Lavrétzky shuddered, glanced at Liza, and seated himself beside her.

  81. She had arrived before him, but he had not descried her; crowded into the space between the wall and the choir, she neither glanced around nor moved.

  82. He glanced at her without comprehending, yet he immediately noticed that she had grown pale and thin.

  83. Liza slowly glanced at him; apparently, she had only that moment comprehended where she was, and that she was with him.

  84. He glanced around him: the sounds were floating from two upper windows of a tiny house.

  85. And remember, if you need me, that I am THERE"; and Mrs. Penniman glanced at the third floor.

  86. Her father glanced at her an instant, removing his eyes from the fire.

  87. People no longer moved freely about the yard, but glanced up at the tall windows and hurried past.

  88. Then it touched upon the "Great Power," and from him it glanced at the crazy Anker, and poverty, and discontent.

  89. Now and then he glanced furtively up at the high windows and put a little more energy into his work; but weariness had the upper hand.

  90. On the table before him stood a new bedroom chamber with a white wooden cover to it; the guests glanced at it and smiled at one another.

  91. Every one who crossed the paved upper yard, glanced involuntarily up at the high veiled windows, behind which an eye might secretly be kept upon all that went on below.

  92. She glanced involuntarily at Erik, and a gleam of something passed over his foolish face, like a faint reminiscence.

  93. They were rocking to and fro together, and now and again they glanced at the two young men.

  94. While they sat talking, a sound came now and then from the other room, and each time a nervous look came into Morten's face, and he glanced in annoyance at the closed door.

  95. The crowded outer world went drifting far away from him; he barely glanced at it as he built his nest; he thought no more about social problems than the birds that nest in spring.

  96. The little girl just glanced at him with her dull eyes, and a feeble interest glimmered in them.

  97. He glanced round the flock, as though he were looking for some particular person.

  98. He had gazed into the depths of the other world, and every explanation glanced off him.

  99. Bryant's cheek flushed, and he glanced quickly at Mary.

  100. The imperfect recitation finished, Mary glanced across the room, hoping her cousin's patience was not so tried, and some brilliant coruscations in that direction fixed her attention.

  101. He glanced over his shoulder at the frail form nearly buried beneath the weight of shawls and cloaks wrapt about her.

  102. Slowly she passed through the narrow yard, and entered the street; pausing, she glanced up at her window, and perceived through the grating the blaze and smoke now filling the vacant room.

  103. The tea bell rang; she lifted her head, glanced round the room, and wearily dropped her brow again on its resting-place.

  104. You glanced at her again and persuaded yourself that the expression of motherhood which characterized her separated into two expressions (as behind a thin white cloud it is possible to watch another cloud of darker hue).

  105. She glanced through the windows at the darkening lawn; her eyes were tear-dimmed; to her it looked darker than it was.

  106. She did not look at it or touch it but glanced up at him.

  107. He had made but half the ascent, when becoming aware that the enemy had silenced his battery of stones, he glanced over his shoulder, still climbing, to discover the cause, and found to his dismay that his design had been frustrated.

  108. He scarcely glanced at her face: he went off at once, and plunged again into the Cincinnati Convention.

  109. Hearing this, Tilghman became suddenly conscious of the ludicrous figure he made, and glanced quickly from face to face.

  110. Sitting one evening in Cora's little parlor, she glanced around with a look of admiration upon its plain furniture, its absence of luxury, and remembered the perfect content of its happy mistress.

  111. The valet looked like Mephistopheles, as he glanced around with a triumphant expression on his swarthy face, and left the room.

  112. Yes, I get you, Louis," replied Holmes, as he glanced at his watch impatiently.

  113. Once or twice when ploughing through the fields, her head bent upon her work, she glanced round covertly to see the eyes of everybody in the squad fixed on her.

  114. The girl glanced at him interrogatively, curious.

  115. Norah glanced at the youth; their eyes met and both felt that this was something which they desired.

  116. Norah glanced at the players and saw that Dermod Flynn had risen.


  117. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glanced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    glanced about; glanced around; glanced back; glanced down; glanced round