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The phrase "glance away" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe the action of quickly diverting one's gaze or attention from something. Example: She couldn't help but glance away when she saw her ex-boyfriend walking towards her.
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glance away
verb
Intransitive: To look at something else briefly, then look back again.
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But reality is always a glance away.
She didn't even glance away from the screen.
Each blink, each glance away and back, brought him an entirely new view.
Groups of men watch or, distracted, glance away; an alarmed-looking soldier gazes out at us.
Too much can happen in a glance away from the action.
The entranced bird-watchers, ogling and filming away, never glance away from the treetops.
The key signature of E major, even of E flat minor, will be a glance away.
Yet our society chooses to coolly glance away, comfortable in our paparazzi fodder, selfish engagements and celebrity daze.
The models don't meet your gaze, or glance away from it, as they would in Renaissance or modern art.
More often than not, I glance away, as if avoiding the sight of some particularly gruesome accident.
Quickly I turn my head to the wall, as if trying to glance away from my own fat-slicked thoughts.
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