Directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion (used especially of glances).
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Examples for "sidelong "
Examples for "sidelong "
1 He was casting sidelong glances in the direction of the drawing room.
2 Then it happened that she glanced sidelong , through the open south door.
3 But the little god looking sidelong was mute in his grey regard.
4 The young royalists were laughing and casting sidelong glances at the new-comers.
5 Persephone freezes in place and glances sidelong at the Hand of Glory.
1 Every year, we squint at Forbesmagazine's list of best-value actors and wonder.
2 The inventors of this fluted window succeeded in making the heavens squint .
3 If you squint and look at him another way, he's obviously Hitler.
4 Before he left the chart-room Mayo took a squint at the barometer.
5 I might as well take a squint at myself in the glass.
1 As the world's largest democracy, India looks askance at Russia's authoritarian system.
2 Looking askance at the world is what just might set Asa apart.
3 He looked askance and discontentedly at Graydon during dinner in the evening.
4 By the open gate the farmer stood eying his new material askance .
5 There were many looking askance at me at court, I assure you.
1 The money comes gushing in early and the limelight makes them squinty .
2 The squinty - eyed boy looked to be a couple years older than Nick.
3 She didn't recognize him either, with that scarred face and squinty look.
4 Sabito squatted down to examine it, peering at it squinty - eyed from different angles.
5 Is Olivia's squinty earnestness beginning to feel like a one-note performance?
1 Except for one new squint - eyed stableboy, the household had not grown.
2 O greatness of spirit no greater than that of the squint - eyed neighbour lady!
3 Merry himself slew the leader, a great squint - eyed brute like a huge orc.
4 Olyphant owns one the best squint - eyed stares in all of acting.
5 He was hollow-chested, squint - eyed , and rather shambling, but spry enough withal.
1 When he has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint .
2 The lights come up, he blinks, eyes asquint .
3 I marked the row of weather-beaten faces pillowed on the gun-stocks with eyes asquint to sight the pieces.
4 Orson swallowed, eyes asquint .
5 And he to me, All of these were so asquint in mind in the first life that they made no spending there with measure.
1 Lady Bassett drew back, and eyed her askant with amazement and terror.
2 They went up, hand in hand, and often looked askant upon the road.
3 Denys looked askant at Gerard, and not liking the theme, shook it off.
4 Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?
5 The ass stopped munching, and looked askant at the Squire.
6 Gerard pondered these simple words, and eyed her askant , carrying the child with perfect ease.
7 The gamekeeper, meanwhile, picked up his bird, reloaded his gun, and eyed Jasper suspiciously askant .
8 He looked askant at Monckton, and he showed the white of his eyes more and more.
9 Spirituality does not light it; evanescent dreams: are its oil-lamps, often with wick askant in the socket.
10 Nothing askant or lost or loudly wrong.
11 She was dizzy and askant and slant.
12 They looked with eyes askant at the mate and his three companions, but said nothing to them.
13 Pollock looked at him strangely askant .
14 Madame Raynal's quivering eye turned slowly and askant towards Camille, but stopped in terror ere it could see him.
15 The watcher eyed them askant .
16 Whyland looked askant at Abner.
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