glancing

Example Sentences

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But they took the lead on 10 minutes as striker Vasil Kusej forced the ball across the goal line at the far post after Tomas Holes's glancing header from a corner.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

Like Pawson on Saturday, Gillett said contact was glancing.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

Unfashionably for a modern biographer, Mr. Cobb makes only very brief and glancing reference to these peccadilloes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

“I don’t understand,” they say, glancing down at their EBT card.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026

The kind of explanation anyone else, casually glancing out a window, would have accepted without a second thought.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix