English dictionary
sidelong
adjectiveParts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
adjective
- inclining or directed to one side
adjective
- situated at or extending to the side
adverb
- to, toward or at one side
adverb
- with the side toward someone or something
adverb
- on the side
Example sentences
{'source': 'Elizabeth Bowen', 'text': 'her eyes with their misted askance look'}
sidelong glances
{'source': 'Bram Stoker', 'text': 'moved downward in a sidelong way'}
the lateral branches of a tree
{'source': 'Tennyson', 'text': 'shot out sidelong boughs'}
darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face
{'source': 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', 'text': 'seated sidelong to the window'}
the plow lay sidelong on the ground