How to Use look askance at in a Sentence

look askance at

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• My neighbors already look askance at the oil stains in my driveway.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 13 June 2020
• The irony is that many companies would look askance at a worker who made so many moves.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• Leaders who look askance at remote work may be setting themselves up for some turnover.
  — Vanessa Fuhrmans, WSJ, 23 May 2021
• That prompted speculation that the justices would look askance at the side-switching.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
• People tend to look askance at this, seeing it as another instance of her victim complex.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• Most of us look askance at a motel that rents by the hour, but there should be no reason to storm city hall about a doggy day care service that rents for such short intervals.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
• Apparently, the public did not look askance at this relationship.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
• Sometimes elders in the neighborhood look askance at these innovations.
  — Ligaya Mishan David Chow, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Seven emerging artists and collectives look askance at some of the ramifications.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• There are listeners who look askance at projects like these, as if broadening the canon somehow devalues Beethoven and Brahms.
  — Allan Kozinn, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
• This isn’t just the judgment of fastidious outsiders, predisposed to look askance at Malta.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
• Clearly, the court is going to look askance at the breadth of any relevant authority, especially one that hasn’t been used in this way before.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 10 July 2023
• Some Europeans look askance at forming clubs of democracies to confront dictators.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2022
• One reason most Californians look askance at cash reparations is that this state was never a center of slavery.
  — Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 9 Apr. 2024
• Fans will look askance at his praise for the Glazer family being there the day the title was clinched at Wigan Athletic.
  — Michael Walker, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
• Adherents to this principle would look askance at Somers’s and Getler’s Jesse James theories.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• At the same time, some Georgians look askance at a surge in Russian migrants, and their arrival has been blamed for rising apartment rents in Tbilisi.
  — Conor Sheils, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2022
• Even so, casinos in Mississippi and Louisiana are likely to look askance at the prospect of a new competitor.
  — Sara Pagones | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2021
• All their Republican friends in town might look askance at their enthusiasm, Agnes Quintanilla said, but that won’t bother her much.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2022
• According to an ideology that once used to look askance at commentary that trampled on free choice, Americans are improperly choosing to have too few kids.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
• Courts, however, look askance at executive agencies that extract suddenly vast, indeed unlimited new powers, from old statutes.
  — NBC News, 12 Sep. 2021
• Arrayed before the mayor is a cast of increasingly hostile counterparties who look askance at austerity and question the timing of his cost-cutting effort.
  — Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• Certain LPs will look askance at what was essentially a party round, given that different partygoers charge higher fees than others.
  — Dan Primack, Axios, 18 Dec. 2024
• Consistent with Gutierrez’s perspective – and with Red Star’s own art – most of the participants look askance at identity as a construct.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• Gottfried wasn’t the only German Jew to look askance at the Jewish Bildungsbürgertum and deem them complacent.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• There are likely some whiskey fans who are going to look askance at this release based on various factors, from its very makeup to their dislike of Bhakta, who happens to be a very polarizing figure in the industry.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2024
• But sentencing courts regularly look askance at relentless insistence of innocence after a jury decides otherwise.
  — Ron Kuby, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
• Though coaches and scouts look askance at his many tattoos, Rivera-as-Hernandez has a megawatt smile and sweet vulnerability that convinces the audience things could have turned out differently.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2024
• What was probably going through my mind was that Victorians would look askance at the term artificial intelligence, because they would be offended by the idea that computers could replace human brains.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2024
• The technique also allows the company to avoid regulation by the USDA and forestry standards groups that look askance at planting trees with genes modified by other techniques in the wild.
  — Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023