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

And Andrea Riseborough is terrific expressing considerable disdain with just a sidelong glance.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2021

Something about the way he kept darting sidelong glances at me made butterflies jam out in my stomach.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon