Sentence examples for glance suspiciously from inspiring English sources

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As residents of West Virginia perfect their ability to glance suspiciously at the water flowing from their taps, state lawmakers have officially whipped themselves into a lather of "Somebody do something!" And, as Reuters' Ian Simpson reports, that "something" may end up being legislation geared toward "tightening" the rules that have heretofore been noteworthy in their slackness.

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Chief Elgin (Ice Cube) glances suspiciously at the interloper.

In this side view of passengers in a trolley car, a white matron glances suspiciously at the photographer and a white boy in his Sunday best stares curiously at the camera, while, behind him, a black man wears a look mournful enough to break one's heart.

In his left hand, a plain brown shopping bag, and, as she shuts the door behind him and six or seven cats glance up suspiciously from their perch on the mantel, he holds it out to her. "Here it is," he says, and, sure enough, her purse is inside, soft black leather with a silver clasp and the ponzu-sauce stain etched into the right panel like an abstract design.

It gives you an opportunity to travel, and come to places like this," he says, glancing almost suspiciously around this members' club, "but..

But one glance at the suspiciously darkened cars that collect here in the summer make it clear that "rest" is euphemistic.

Their open smiles will change into prim frowns; their eyes will glance me over suspiciously.

"You said you'd be here, like, an hour ago," you bark down the phone, angry now, pissed off that you've had to deal with looking like a nob for ages, hanging around in a hotel car park like a lonely autograph hunter, pretending to text people while guests get in their cars and glance at you suspiciously.

At first glance, that might sound suspiciously similar to the exasperating read receipt requests that seem to pop up in my inbox every day, but Heddleston argued, "It's not a way to track people.

The recording captures police telling the 15-year-old that he was stopped by police two times while walking three East Harlem blocks because he was wearing a hoodie and glancing over his shoulder suspiciously.

In the recent mediocre Jim Carrey comedy, I Love You Phillip Morris, for example, the penultimate scene is suspiciously reminiscent of Bates's furtive final glance in Psycho, although the rest of the film is not Hitchcockian in the least.

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