Sentence examples for glance off from inspiring English sources

Can there be subjectivity without an object to glance off?

The ball appeared to glance off Karros's wrist and carom off his jaw, causing a bruise.

He could swerve suddenly, glance off the van on his inside, spin around, be hit by the approaching bus.

The light will then glance off the diamond and refract across the glass-covered photograph of Mr. Maguire's long, serious face.

Tintin seems ideally formed to glance off real history, catching and bruising himself on its corners; it's no surprise that Spielberg, the man who brought us Indiana Jones, should have declared an interest.

On the southeast corner of 90th Street and Madison Avenue, Intimacy, a lingerie shop, has two svelte mannequins in blue bathing suits; spring's siren song seems to glance off the glass.

An actor known for his extraordinary ability to convey endless layers of emotion in a single, quiet glance, off-screen he is peculiarly indecipherable, controlled, his face a closed book.

A deep pass glances off a receiver's fingertips.

Then, starlight glancing off an ocean on the planet's limb will produce a glint that the same light glancing off a dull, rocky surface would not.

He reached the ball, but it glanced off the tip of glove for a double.

"I add the dream," she cries, the light glancing off her arresting blue eyes.