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
With shuffling feet and downcast eyes, while making sidelong gargoyle faces at their sister, they handed the letter to their governess.
From Literature
A few gave curious, sidelong glances to the strangers in the hall, and their eyes grew wide at the presence of the boys, but none dared break rank to offer a greeting.
From Literature
As it happened, the state of the world was addressed, sidelong and directly.
From Los Angeles Times
There are light topical references — a sidelong joke about the names billionaires give their children, for example — but the show happily lives in its world of day-to-day annoyances and victories.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
