glance
verb (used without object)
to look quickly or briefly.
Example Sentences
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Fans will grab it immediately, but it should also prompt those who know him only glancingly to listen more deeply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
If you’ve spent time on the internet in the past decade or two, you’re at least glancingly familiar with cringe.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025
Scheel conceived its productions as a kind of cabaret dinner theater — a place for his talented friends to belt out show tunes of a cinematic variety when such opportunities were glancingly few in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
“Evanston” is only glancingly interested in how cities are organized and maintained: That’s the play’s occasion, not its troubled heart.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
Around the corner of the front counter, a skinny, unsmiling lad looked up from a littered table and nodded, meeting my eyes only glancingly, then looking away.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
