Sentence examples for my glance from inspiring English sources

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But some days, watching the eyes in a crowd is like watching a school of reef fish, flashing as they catch my glance and then dart away in pairs.

Past winners have included Sylvia Plath and Robert Redford, both for paintings; Richard Avedon, for a poem ("You must not think because my glance is quick . . . That I shall never total up to much"); Andy Warhol and Lena Dunhamm.

While Merrill carried the ball, showing that he was not entirely ignorant of the Faust legend, I was trying, without making the divagations of my glance too obvious, to case the library.

While sitting at my desk and reading upsetting news, from Crimea to the death of Alain Resnais, I looked up from the computer screen and my glance was caught by the spine of a book: "The Politics of Memory," by the historian Raul Hilberg.

Not only was this land once covered by the ocean, but the mountain range itself is one huge, ancient fossil reef, which is probably why on at least two occasions on the hike up, my glance was snagged by a shiny bit of rock that appeared to be a piece of shell.

The few cell phone users didn't shout; a man escorting a Catherine Zeta-Jones look-alike looked askance at something on his plate, and it was immediately whisked away; and if I ever raised my glance, a waiter was instantly at my side.

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The waves change as the tide drops, getting smaller and breaking slightly, farther out, but the wind stays down, and, for all my glancing at the bluff, no one appears.

As I took my first glance around my host brother's room, I was convinced it would.

My next glance – at his monitor – confirmed my expectations.

My downward glance was met with a harrowing scene: my right foot, raised in midstep, clad only in a sock.

My first glance at the show told me it was junk, with my second glance I was in heaven".

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