ASKANCE in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for ASKANCE, such as:
1. Looking askance at her questioner, she displayed her scorn.
2. They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy.
3. As they advanced, Ivan Antonovitch cast an eye backwards and viewed them askance.
4. Danglars looked at him askance, as though to ascertain whether he spoke seriously.
5. The soldiers looked askance at him with surprise and even alarm as they went past him.
2. They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy.
3. As they advanced, Ivan Antonovitch cast an eye backwards and viewed them askance.
4. Danglars looked at him askance, as though to ascertain whether he spoke seriously.
5. The soldiers looked askance at him with surprise and even alarm as they went past him.
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Meanings and Examples of ASKANCE
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askance
a. with sideways or indirect look; Turned to side, especially of eyes
Classic Sentence:
1 As they advanced, Ivan Antonovitch cast an eye backwards and viewed them askance.
2 Her beautiful eyes glanced askance at her husband's face, and her own assumed the timid, deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its drooping tail.
3 The soldiers looked askance at him with surprise and even alarm as they went past him.
4 But it seems you have come back rich, my boy, continued the tailor, looking askance at the handful of gold and silver which Dantes had thrown on the table.
5 Danglars looked at him askance, as though to ascertain whether he spoke seriously.
6 The soft thing looked askance through the window: he possessed the power to depart as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.
7 Sergey Ivanovitch, while he kept up a conversation with their hostess, had one ear for his brother, and he glanced askance at him.
8 He did not know that he had taken nearly ten years to arrive, for it never occurred to him that his neighbors had eyed him askance at first.
9 He eyed Bumble askance, as he entered, but scarcely deigned to nod his head in acknowledgment of his salutation.
10 At that instant, as it seemed to him, the air was chilled and, looking askance towards the water, he saw a flying squall darkening and crisping suddenly the tide.
Example Sentence:
1 Looking askance at her questioner, she displayed her scorn.
2 They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy.