Glanced is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Glanced meaning
simple past and past participle of glance
Using Glanced
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of glance
- In the example corpus, glanced often appears in combinations such as: glanced at, and glanced, glanced off.
Context around Glanced
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Glanced
- In this selection, "glanced" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, howden, bairstow, silva, down, towards and off stand out and add context to how "glanced" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as she glanced at the and bairstow glanced down to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "glanced" sits close to words such as advani, afi and allred, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with glanced
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I glanced up at Dad. (5 words)
I glanced at the dash and noticed nothing out of the norm. (12 words)
How many times have we glanced over an elderly person and absently dismissed them? (14 words)
There was knowing laughter on the balmy April evening in the cavernous Andrew Mellon auditorium across from the National Mall: Jewish media reporters, who had for years covered Biden, glanced at each other and knocked back a little wine. (39 words)
Among them are the Honda Pilot and the Hyundai Santa Fe, and if you've glanced at either, you know they boast a range of similarities that might make it difficult to decide which best suits your needs. (38 words)
Anwar El Ghazi twice glanced headers wide of Ivor Pandur's left and right posts with Callum O'Dowda also powering a header over the bar, all of which came inside the opening 10 minutes. (35 words)
How many times have we glanced over an elderly person and absently dismissed them? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
A more important question might be who cares about their hair the most and spends the most time on it, to which Howden glanced around the room before saying it was “definitely” Jonathan Marchessault.
Bairstow glanced down to check his feet were in his ground, and then set off walking towards the middle of the pitch ready for the change of ends.
But from Gallagher’s resulting corner, Silva glanced his header into the far corner from six yards after Palmer blocked Haaland’s attempt to mark the Chelsea defender.
But to her surprise, as she glanced at the phone on the passenger seat, she saw a tiny “1” in a red dot on her phone app, showing that she had a voice message.
Demers’ workshop door was open, and as I passed by, I glanced in and did a double-take.
During the administrative hearing, which lasted about an hour, Ecclestone looked at legal documents and glanced towards the public gallery, where his wife, Fabiana Flosi, sat.
How many times have we glanced over an elderly person and absently dismissed them?
I glanced at the dash and noticed nothing out of the norm.
I glanced up at Dad.
Really good first half, won a couple of important headers and at the other end, glanced one wide.
Santander followed with a sharp grounder that glanced off the glove of first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. for an RBI single.
Then she glanced back over her shoulder, perhaps toward what had initially sent them running, and trotted away, her followers in tow.
There was knowing laughter on the balmy April evening in the cavernous Andrew Mellon auditorium across from the National Mall: Jewish media reporters, who had for years covered Biden, glanced at each other and knocked back a little wine.
The suspect appeared dressed in an orange and white striped jumpsuit, and glanced around the courtroom consistently throughout the day.
This happened every week, and I am sure that eventually no one even glanced over, but by then it was too late.
When looking at the best players in sports, specialists are often forgotten or glanced over.
With blood running down his cheek, like an unbroken line of tears, he glanced briefly at his trainer before turning back to the heat and fury of Beterbiev.
Among them are the Honda Pilot and the Hyundai Santa Fe, and if you've glanced at either, you know they boast a range of similarities that might make it difficult to decide which best suits your needs.
Anwar El Ghazi twice glanced headers wide of Ivor Pandur's left and right posts with Callum O'Dowda also powering a header over the bar, all of which came inside the opening 10 minutes.
Ethan Ampadu glanced wide from a Leeds corner but soon they finally unpicked the Derby defence.
Common combinations with glanced
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- glanced at 27×
- and glanced 9×
- glanced off 9×
- she glanced 7×
- glanced in 7×
- glanced over 7×
- glanced up 4×
- occasionally glanced 4×
- glanced around 3×
- that glanced 3×