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How to use the word glance in a Sentence?

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I'd never seen him like this, the eyes were hollow. Just that first glance was brutal.

Paul Cryil Westhead

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a public elementary school. Why are military insignia being used to design a new logo ? It's not a military academy, the colloquial recognition of this image for many people, within the Jewish community and outside the Jewish community, on an initial glance is Nazi imagery.

Amanda Flaks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Think of all the things and widgets you could see just at a glance without having to open your iPhone, now tie them to your homescreen. It's a part of the iPhone experience that has been mostly the same and would benefit from a refresh.

Ramon Llamas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At first glance, it might seem that this is a new global order stacked against America, but that is not necessarily so. The U.S. remains the world’s leading power, still stronger than all the rest by far.

Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One glance at the way our maps look you'll see that the way they're done and the types of splits you have between counties, between townships, between school districts, between populations of communities of color – it's done in a way that's gerrymandered and it has favored a Republican majority, when we see a reset opportunity it is simply for a fairer map. It's not some sort of grab … we just want fairer lines.

Joanna McClinton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People tend to get nervous when you stare at them. They are racked with enough insecurities as it is. They always look away, glance back quickly and look away again. Some part of them melts and as they attempt to gather themselves, their flesh forms puddles at their feet.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

I need to do a better job of just giving things a chance, experiencing things, not writing them off at first glance.

Rory McIlroy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

We understood each other with a glance.

Lidia Maksymowicz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Counterfeit products can be deceiving at first glance, they're often cheaper and can appear very similar to the real thing. However, inferior products can end up costing consumers more than if they purchased the genuine item because of the high likelihood of substandard materials and malfunctioning parts.

Richard Gillespie

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One's own belief in human excellence is one of the ultimate signs of the skewness that man himself has invented, his role in everything. Sublimely, however, we are aware of our own coming doom through a quick glance at the world around us.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by anonymous
3 years ago

At first glance, total transparency, fast communication, and the unrestricted use of media presuppose a fertile ground for manipulation, which may be one reason the world is becoming so cautious. But transparency doesn`t have that much to do directly and specifically with manipulation.

Maxim Behar

added by MaximBehar
3 years ago

At first glance, it might seem as though the death of the press release was slightly exaggerated. After all, press releases are still in circulation.

Maxim Behar

added by MaximBehar
3 years ago

The study makes the assumption that it is reasonable to gather together studies from the other two major coronavirus epidemics of the last 20 years — SARS and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome — and to combine these with the relatively limited data so far available about the effects of Covid-19 upon mental health, it is probably legitimate to do so, but a casual glance at the paper may suggest that the paper is mainly about Covid-19, whereas most of the data come from the earlier virus outbreaks.

Tom Dening

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If my last scene is not a kiss ... we will make do, sometimes you can convey love with just a glance.

Lucero Suarez

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think we were just open to the idea of finding love, of course the premise is a little crazy at first glance, but for me, I said' I want to keep an open mind about this. Cameron Hamilton never know.' And here we are today. So I'm glad that I did.

Cameron Hamilton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Labels allow people to just glance at a product, and see if it is a healthy or less healthy choice.

Mhairi Brown

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You can look at their face, you can see their eyes glance over at the logo and what it says, and then it's either a face of curiosity or fear.

Priscilla Chavez

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The idea came quickly, one glance at the cooler and I saw the shape and color scheme of an old split-window.

Kevin Butler

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

At first glance, I didn't see anything special about it.

Gary Tarpinian

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

There have been a number of medical historians in the past, since the mid-1960s, who have diagnosed Jane Austen in absentia and who have used new medical knowledge as it has become available to glance back at the death of Jane Austen, who did die prematurely.

Janine Barchas

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The game is no different, when we’re walking around we take turns we kind of glance at the phone while the other looks up and around, it’s just something that we’re taught to do.

Javier Soch and Seth Ortega

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If I see you (a company executive) tense up with a question or glance at your chief financial officer, I'm picking that up, it's not a violation (of RegFD) -- but it's an advantage.

Adam Grossman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

At first glance they look bad, but they are not inconsistent with other cities that meet the federal lead and copper rule.

Virginia Tech researcher Marc Edwards

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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