sidelong

Example Sentences

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“I’m turning on you,” Smith replies with a sidelong glance.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

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

No one else says anything, though a few of them give me sidelong glances like they’re sizing me up.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth