How to Use glancing in a Sentence

glancing

adjective

• With a gun slung across his chest, the man held the gloved hand of a small boy, who gave him a shy and glancing smile.
  — Francesca Ebel, ajc, 3 Mar. 2022
• Memories, even the most glancing and indirect, can still swamp him, like a wave over a rowboat.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 19 July 2017
• His initial encounter with the manhole that will transport him is glancing, childlike, like Alice with her looking glass.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
• Young leveled his revolver and shot at him, inflicting a glancing wound along Huntington’s rib cage.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
• Several of the principals had short or glancing careers in pro football, but none became stars.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
• McClure has a different, more glancing touch, though deft as a diamond cutter.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2021
• While the narrower right pane is meant for quick glancing, swiping left will send that cursory info to the larger pane without requiring the use of the main menu or any shortcut buttons.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 2 Oct. 2020
• Unbelievably, many of these videos contain glancing allusions to the thing for which he is primarily known.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• Belfast’s drama is a little more glancing, its childhood antics a little more cartoonish.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2021
• Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion in the Wisconsin case lacked soaring language or all but the most glancing criticism of gerrymandering.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 18 June 2018
• However, Kahnweiler offers only a glancing shot of the act itself.
  — Alex McElroy, The Atlantic, 5 July 2021
• Northern California’s wine industry has taken a number of glancing blows from wildfires in recent years.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• Some threads, like gay band members coming to terms with their sexuality in an environment built to exploit it, require more nuance than their glancing mentions can afford.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 21 June 2022
• The love affair in the second half is conducted in a glancing, indirect fashion—one lover secretly visits the other’s empty apartment, rearranging and replacing small items in it.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
• Most reports so far have relied on independent research projects run by universities, but that only gives us a glancing look of what’s happening in different regions.
  — Tara Santora, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2021
• So the real issue for meteorologists and public officials is this: the odds of a truly catastrophic hit on Houston are probably about 25 percent versus the city taking a more glancing blow.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2020
• For dedicated science readers, Ridley’s lessons may have a glancing and derivative feel.
  — Jon Gertner, Washington Post, 18 June 2020
• The book too has been radically overhauled: Kushner set aside much of Laurents’s script to rework motivations, reimagine backstory, and revisit the original’s glancing and stereotypical approach to its Puerto Rican characters.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024