Sentence examples for only a glance from inspiring English sources

Wearing one allows subway riders an easy, and discreet, way of checking the sequence of stops — it takes only a glance at your wrist.

It needs only a glance to see what she has on: she has one of those fall-abdomen gummy sacks of the '20s.

GREENBURGH, N.Y., Sept. 14 — Darius Kasparaitis's determination to return to the N.H.L. is almost impossible to miss, requiring only a glance at his chiseled arms.

Sparing only a glance for the Picassos and van Goghs as he headed for the exit, Mann mentioned that at the top of Papua Square there was a bronze statue of a prisoner breaking his chains.

Yet it takes only a glance at Victorian fiction to show how central a role the pawn shop's cheap credit played in the 19th-century economy, sustaining as many middle-class households as the denizens of Cholera Court.

Unofficial (Un Biased Insider's Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges It takes only a glance at the table of contents to see what this guide is going for.

The Events made only a glancing attempt, and was all the better for it.

President Bush made only a glancing mention of Vietnam's human rights record.

This is a venerable argument against immigration, with unfortunate nativist echoes and only a glancing association with the facts.

In the central Atlantic, meanwhile, Hurricane Florence dashed past Bermuda, giving the island only a glancing blow.

Since most peasants here have only a glancing contact with the cash economy, the tax exemption is largely irrelevant.