Sentence examples for a single sideways from inspiring English sources

And it's all achieved with magnificent subtlety: great explosions of overconfident bluster are undermined by a single sideways glance.

Specifically, Bowie's son, film director Duncan Jones, offered his take in a single, sideways-glance tweet. .

She, dressed in black, enters, casting a single shadow sideways as she claims attention with the meter of her feet; then she holds a long pose.

I imagine it would be far worse with a single pedal that you press sideways to accelerate and downward to stop.

The head bore five eyes: two on stalks near the front and fairly close to the middle of the head, pointing upwards and forwards; two larger eyes, also stalked, near the rear and outer edges of the head, pointing upwards and sideways; and a single eye with a shorter stalk between the larger pair of stalked eyes, pointing upwards.

Removing the fruit from the skin sideways through a single lengthwise slit leaves the peel intact enough to keep its messy inside facing inward.

It is not entirely clear how the swerve operates: it may involve a small angle of deviation from the original path, or else a slight shift sideways, perhaps by a single minimum, with no change in direction.

Snowboarders stand sideways with both feet attached to a single board that is about six feet long and 10 inches wide.

Classical elements are given new emphases, as when successive dancers do a standard large jump (grand jeté) forward, then (less standard) sideways, then (unusual) backward, all, amazingly, in a single phrase.

He's also someone who can stare down the barrel of a single camera and distill the most complex human frailties with sideways insights that are hysterical and ultimately reassuring.

A phrase of small but exciting sideways jumps is delivered while the arms trace a single growing arc.