How to Use sidelong in a Sentence
sidelong
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Maritza, still walking in front of me, makes a slow turn and gives me a sidelong glance with her eyes cast downward.
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Héctor Tobar,
Slate Magazine,
24 Jan. 2017
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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.
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Gary Thompson,
Philly.com,
21 Mar. 2018
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Soren’s project carries a sidelong reminder, too, of the defamiliarizing way that our phones see us.
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Jia Tolentino,
The New Yorker,
1 Sep. 2021
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His face is usually glimpsed in peripheral vision or backlit or in a hurried sidelong glance that stops fearfully short at his chin.
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Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2022
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Josef is a dull, unimaginative child, given to casual envies and sidelong resentments.
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Elizabeth Lowry,
WSJ,
11 Oct. 2018
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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.
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The New Yorker,
22 May 2017
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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.
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Aaron Gilbreath,
Longreads,
20 May 2020
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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.
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Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
29 Mar. 2021
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Nevertheless, James Gray pulls us into rooting for this sidelong American dream.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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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.
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Colin Barrett,
Harper’s Magazine ,
16 Mar. 2022
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Their full-length album builds on that promise, casting a sidelong glance at modern life’s rubbish—nagging bills, bad parties, worse dates—over elliptical riffing and galloping basslines.
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Maura Johnston,
Time,
3 June 2022
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For lesbians accustomed to finding each other via sidelong glance, or not at all, JEB’s matter-of-fact images were a revelation.
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Sasha Archibald,
The New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2021
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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.
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Katy Waldman,
Slate Magazine,
29 June 2017
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As the train approached its final destination in the early hours of the next day, those on board became watchful, casting sidelong glances at any unfamiliar woman not accompanied by a man.
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April White,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 May 2022
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Others angle in at our connections and responsibilities from sidelong directions or arrest us with startling imagery.
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Nancy Lord,
Anchorage Daily News,
16 Nov. 2019
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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.
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Meredith Blake Staff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Nov. 2020
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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.
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Washington Post,
28 Jan. 2022
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As Gabrielle’s frustrations play out, with sidelong references to imperialism and immigration, the film becomes increasingly absurd and indulgent.
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Armond White,
National Review,
28 July 2017
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This syncretic, sidelong way of speaking — celebrated and circulated via popular music — archives histories of migration, resistance and coerced intimacy barely audible elsewhere.
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New York Times,
31 Jan. 2020
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