Sentence examples for a glancing encounter from inspiring English sources

A glancing encounter – but it had a profound effect on me.

I had a glancing encounter with his notion of authority and it irked me.

"Blue Sunday" is a glancing encounter between two highway drifters, with gleaming 12-string guitar; "Have Love Will Travel" and "Like a Diamond" remember romances that strayed apart.

A glancing encounter with scandal for Tim Farron, Lib Dem party president: blogger Guido Fawkes reveals that he recently indulged in a first-class train ticket (though, admittedly, at the ultra-cheap advance rate).

Thanks to factors like unions (which cement mediocrity in place) and education requirements, they've pretty much scrubbed the corporate media of those who have anything more than a glancing encounter with the policies they so carelessly espouse.

Yammara's glancing encounter with the underworld comes through Ricardo Laverde, a shadowy acquaintance from billiard halls in La Candelaria, the capital's cobbled quarter.

"I just remember meeting her," said Mr. Hall, who had glancing encounters over the next 12 years with Miss Hargraves because of his friendship with her brother.

The gas pushes out the external layer of armour so that it encounters the emerging spike at a glancing angle.

Dr. Greene takes obvious delight in trying to mediate at least a glancing acquaintance with ideas that would give most of us nightmares if we were to encounter them alone in a dark alley of the consciousness.

A14 A Glancing Blow to Florida Hurricane Michelle spared South Florida, hitting the Bahamas instead with winds weakened by its deadly encounter with Cuba on Sunday.

Take a glancing interest.