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glance
Meaning: to look at something briefly
glance in a sentence
How glance is used in real sentences:
I glanced at the clock before returning to my book.
Jamal glanced at the scoreboard and then kept running.
“Vale glanced at the opening paragraph, reading it for only a few seconds.”
— from the passage A Better Ending
Synonyms for glance
Other words for glance — peek, glimpse and scan — carry the same meaning.
- peek
- glimpse
- scan
Antonyms of glance
Words that mean the opposite of glance:
- stare
- ignore
Where it comes from
From Middle English glencen 'to move quickly'
Memory hook
GLANCE starts like GLASS: take one quick look through the glass.