How to Use look askance at in a Sentence

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• The irony is that many companies would look askance at a worker who made so many moves.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• My neighbors already look askance at the oil stains in my driveway.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 13 June 2020
• Haslem wanted to make clear that Friday is a celebration of No. 40, not a time to look askance at No. 6.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• The people in these photos look askance at one another.
  — Vulture, 6 Jan. 2023
• Leaders who look askance at remote work may be setting themselves up for some turnover.
  — Vanessa Fuhrmans, WSJ, 23 May 2021
• At the same time, some Georgians look askance at a surge in Russian migrants, and their arrival has been blamed for rising apartment rents in Tbilisi.
  — Conor Sheils, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2022
• Most of us look askance at a motel that rents by the hour, but there should be no reason to storm city hall about a doggy day care service that rents for such short intervals.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
• There are listeners who look askance at projects like these, as if broadening the canon somehow devalues Beethoven and Brahms.
  — Allan Kozinn, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
• Adherents to this principle would look askance at Somers’s and Getler’s Jesse James theories.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• Even so, casinos in Mississippi and Louisiana are likely to look askance at the prospect of a new competitor.
  — Sara Pagones | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2021
• This isn’t just the judgment of fastidious outsiders, predisposed to look askance at Malta.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
• Clearly, the court is going to look askance at the breadth of any relevant authority, especially one that hasn’t been used in this way before.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 10 July 2023
• All their Republican friends in town might look askance at their enthusiasm, Agnes Quintanilla said, but that won’t bother her much.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2022
• Seven emerging artists and collectives look askance at some of the ramifications.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• Consistent with Gutierrez’s perspective – and with Red Star’s own art – most of the participants look askance at identity as a construct.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• The technique also allows the company to avoid regulation by the USDA and forestry standards groups that look askance at planting trees with genes modified by other techniques in the wild.
  — Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023
• Sometimes elders in the neighborhood look askance at these innovations.
  — Ligaya Mishan David Chow, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Apparently, the public did not look askance at this relationship.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
• Some Europeans look askance at forming clubs of democracies to confront dictators.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2022
• According to an ideology that once used to look askance at commentary that trampled on free choice, Americans are improperly choosing to have too few kids.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
• Arrayed before the mayor is a cast of increasingly hostile counterparties who look askance at austerity and question the timing of his cost-cutting effort.
  — Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• Courts, however, look askance at executive agencies that extract suddenly vast, indeed unlimited new powers, from old statutes.
  — NBC News, 12 Sep. 2021
• City officials worried whether the governor’s actions might alienate and discourage cooperation in a conservative Orthodox community where some members look askance at dictums from secular governments.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024