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verb

present participle of glance

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of glancing
Adjective
Unlike the deft, well-oxygenated portraits of, say, Alice Neel — notable for their citrus-fresh, glancing quality — Freud’s portraits are infused with a dense, almost humid atmosphere maintained over long hours, days and months. Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022 One of the victims suffered a serious injury to the forearm and the second a more glancing bite to the leg, police told media outlets. Antonio Planas, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022 Both people were attacked in Myrtle Beach on Monday with one suffering a serious injury to the forearm and the second a more glancing bite to the leg, police told media outlets. CBS News, 19 Aug. 2022 In a glancing acknowledgment of their shortcomings, NHTSA in 2015 issued guidelines on infotainment systems that recommend they be designed so a driver’s attention is not distracted for more than two seconds out of six. Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022 See All Example Sentences for glancing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glancing
Verb
  • Related Stories Today’s brands must establish longer-term relationships with suppliers—instead of bouncing from supplier to supplier to save pennies—to support decarbonization efforts in any significant way.
    Lewis Perkins, Sourcing Journal, 8 Jan. 2025
  • When Andrew Bird steps into the editing booth, he’s used to collaborating with and bouncing ideas off of a director.
    Matt Minton, Variety, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • This translated to office sirens walking in knits with cut-outs, slashed shirting, and slacks that had boxers peeking over the waistline, proving that business will not be as usual come autumn — and that’s a good thing.
    Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • It’s finished with rows of pretty pearl buttons at the cuffs, so the sweater makes a statement on its own or with the cuffs peeking out of a blazer.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This user experience gap is a glaring oversight that leaves many customers frustrated, confused and wondering if the futuristic fintech promises were just clever marketing.
    Sal Rehmetullah, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Brunson’s game-winning, ice-cold three only numbed the pain the Knicks endured — pain a better opponent will continue to impose on a team that has shown more glaring holes than bright spots.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • Still, some options will also include a red light setting, which produces less of a blinding effect for others, and strobe effects for emergency signaling.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
  • The spherical object reportedly then burst into a blinding bright light.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Outside of the emotional rollercoaster of Keisha and Justin’s romance, the series offers generous and glittering depictions of family, friendship and young adulthood.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 May 2025
  • Leave it to Cartier to make the night’s most glittering party feel like an intimate encore.
    Ian Malone, Vogue, 6 May 2025
Adjective
  • This year there have been multiple flaring incidents, including planned flaring that occurred during maintenance work in February and several weeks in April and May.
    Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Oil refining giant Valero must pay a $1.2 million penalty for major flaring incidents at its Benicia facility that spewed dark plumes of pollutants into neighborhoods, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday.
    Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • Against elites, his Dangerous Fenwick is just over 50 percent, but his goal share (11-1) is a scintillating 91 percent.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The attention required to keep up isn’t always rewarded by the most scintillating developments in a plot that tends more often to simmer on a medium flame than come to a boil.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Glancing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glancing. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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