Sentence examples for glancing over from inspiring English sources

"glancing over" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an action of quickly looking at something to get a general idea of it. For example, "I glanced over his letter to get a sense of what he was trying to say."

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"I'd like to leave my résumé," she said, glancing over at Ms. Perelman and smiling.

Glancing over, I saw a shop window piled with pyramids of dark, glossy homemade chocolates.

Without glancing over, Stanton thought of the Potts girl's mousy strings.

Glancing over, I recognized a brassy brunette named Nancy Schuster, who won the first Stamford tournament, in 1978.

"How is life here?" "It is good," he says, shooting back an awkward smile and glancing over at the guards.

"I compliment the way the Chinese companies work — very fast," Mr. Hun Sen said, pointedly glancing over at the representative from the Asian Development Bank.

I'd stood there, chatting with people and glancing over at Kurt Cobain, who sat quietly for a long time, applying eyeliner.

After the rest of the companies pitched, I remember people glancing over but avoiding our table like the plague.

"Oh, right," Martin said, glancing over, "Eric found a dead body in the front yard once". .

He paused, glancing over the water.

"I got it at Macy's," she said, hardly glancing over.

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