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

Each has a distinctive superpower, only glancingly alluded to late in the picture.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

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