glanced
glanced
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The cameraman glanced at the director of the actors who was dressed in black.
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The inspector glanced at the deputies of the policeman who were always working late.
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The inspector glanced at the deputy of the policeman who was smoking a cigarette.
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No veiled future dimly glanced upon him in the moonbeams.
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Nixon glanced repeatedly at a clock just offstage.
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Infrequently, they also glanced at the experimenter.
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The “no veiled future” that “dimly glanced” makes manifest, among other things, that there is no future because his being is, at this moment, already completely determined by his future.
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Many is the time when we in mining areas have glanced anxiously at smouldering muck stacks near our villages.
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They glanced at the infrastructure, but total investment is currently at record heights.
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Perhaps he simply put his name to them, or glanced at them without giving them any consideration.
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I have only just glanced at the report.
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That is very briefly the section, glanced at by a layman.
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We glanced at this matter, but did not consider it in detail.
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I only glanced at the cover and the photographs in the report.
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I have glanced at the figures for stocks for the first 23 weeks of this year and of last year.
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