How to Use sidelong in a Sentence

sidelong

adjective

• Maritza, still walking in front of me, makes a slow turn and gives me a sidelong glance with her eyes cast downward.
  — Héctor Tobar, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
• Rather, the images build and scatter, with a sidelong glance, a wonderment, the capture of a felt moment.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
• The movie also takes a sardonic, sidelong look at the problems that arise when the main motive for health care providers is the profit motive.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The titular figure lies naked atop a wrinkled white sheet, offering viewers a sidelong glance and a slight smirk.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2021
• Soren’s project carries a sidelong reminder, too, of the defamiliarizing way that our phones see us.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• As a conversationalist and as an author, Oyeyemi is the queen of the sidelong glance, the misdirection, the parable that can be taken two ways.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2021
• As an artist, Sam Winston was often on the lookout for topsy-turvy projects – weird, sidelong ways to unmoor familiar habits or nudge his work in new directions.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 May 2020
• With a sidelong glance at the woman eating soup, Lorna hastily slipped what was left of the sandwich into a napkin, transferred the napkin into her coat pocket, and rose from the table.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• For those who prefer their crime-fiction pulp hard-boiled and harder-hitting, with sidelong glances into moral philosophy and nasty nihilism, Zahler's the guy.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2020
• In the high-contrast, boldly geometric shot, the model’s hands-on-hips stance and sidelong glance lend her a mischievous and distinctly modern character.
  — The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• There is jocular power, exchanged in handshakes and good-to-see-yas, and the soaring power embedded in the architecture, and the breathless, sidelong power of being in the know.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 29 June 2017
• For lesbians accustomed to finding each other via sidelong glance, or not at all, JEB’s matter-of-fact images were a revelation.
  — Sasha Archibald, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2021
• His face is usually glimpsed in peripheral vision or backlit or in a hurried sidelong glance that stops fearfully short at his chin.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
• Corrin trained with movement coach Polly Bennett to understand Diana’s distinctive mannerisms — her bashful head tilt, sidelong glances and tall-girl slouch — from the inside out.
  — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• Josef is a dull, unimaginative child, given to casual envies and sidelong resentments.
  — Elizabeth Lowry, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• For this ambitious session, featuring a sidelong suite and two Coleman originals, the two hornmen temper their outward tendencies by leaning back into their roots of blues and a raucous Pentecostal church gospel.
  — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
• Others angle in at our connections and responsibilities from sidelong directions or arrest us with startling imagery.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2019
• As Gabrielle’s frustrations play out, with sidelong references to imperialism and immigration, the film becomes increasingly absurd and indulgent.
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2017
• This syncretic, sidelong way of speaking — celebrated and circulated via popular music — archives histories of migration, resistance and coerced intimacy barely audible elsewhere.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
• Maritza, still walking in front of me, makes a slow turn and gives me a sidelong glance with her eyes cast downward.
  — Héctor Tobar, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
• Rather, the images build and scatter, with a sidelong glance, a wonderment, the capture of a felt moment.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
• The movie also takes a sardonic, sidelong look at the problems that arise when the main motive for health care providers is the profit motive.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The titular figure lies naked atop a wrinkled white sheet, offering viewers a sidelong glance and a slight smirk.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2021
• Soren’s project carries a sidelong reminder, too, of the defamiliarizing way that our phones see us.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• As a conversationalist and as an author, Oyeyemi is the queen of the sidelong glance, the misdirection, the parable that can be taken two ways.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2021
• As an artist, Sam Winston was often on the lookout for topsy-turvy projects – weird, sidelong ways to unmoor familiar habits or nudge his work in new directions.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 May 2020
• With a sidelong glance at the woman eating soup, Lorna hastily slipped what was left of the sandwich into a napkin, transferred the napkin into her coat pocket, and rose from the table.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• For those who prefer their crime-fiction pulp hard-boiled and harder-hitting, with sidelong glances into moral philosophy and nasty nihilism, Zahler's the guy.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2020
• In the high-contrast, boldly geometric shot, the model’s hands-on-hips stance and sidelong glance lend her a mischievous and distinctly modern character.
  — The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• There is jocular power, exchanged in handshakes and good-to-see-yas, and the soaring power embedded in the architecture, and the breathless, sidelong power of being in the know.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 29 June 2017

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