sidelong
Example Sentences
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Starting every January, whenever I finish a book, I place it sidelong atop a shelf in the corner of my living room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2025
In each of those performances, she conveyed tenderness, compassion and quiet determination in the face of indignity with little more than a tearful gaze or a knowing sidelong glance.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
On the screen was a boy, 11, in blue ear warmers and a jacket, being interviewed by one of the station’s reporters and giving a sidelong look and a sly half-grin.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
For this ambitious session, featuring a sidelong suite and two Coleman originals, the two hornmen temper their outward tendencies by leaning back into their roots of blues and a raucous Pentecostal church gospel.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022
“Please, sir,” begged Sergeant Towser, sighing wearily, with a sidelong glance at the four baffled new officers listening in mystified silence just outside the entrance.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
