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How To Use Askance In A Sentence

  • Such a deal would be questionable, because most trustbusters look askance at one company dominating more than a third of a market.
  • Nowadays, little would be thought of such a situation, but in the 1940's, "living in sin" as it was called, was looked on askance.
  • Arsenio looks askance at his own Wikipedia article. I Find It Bonkers, By The Way - Anil Dash
  • Many people looked askance at what they perceived as very ‘alternative’ thinking.
  • Analysts say investors could look askance at the wrong choice, particularly if the candidate is seen as close to the government, which in South Korea has often taken a strong role in the financial sector. Troubled Shinhan Faces Challenge
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  • He quickly looked away, and then looked back again, as though that brief, askance glance had “cleared it.” Boredom & Ennui
  • She looked askance at him when he began to eat before everybody else.
  • Men and dogs looked askance at Bâtard when he drifted into their camps and posts. BÂTARD
  • I had looked at them a little bit askance just because of my belief system.
  • But when the blockade is prolonged, inconveniencing thousands of motorists, one has to look askance at it.
  • So common was lifelong celibacy and so little accepted were Freudian theories about the dominance of the sexual impulse, that nobody questioned these celibates or looked at them askance.
  • Hetty eyed him askance but clinked his glass all the same. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
  • You have to give them some space, she said, staring askance at my storage methods, which involved squishing together as many garments as possible and stowing the overspill under the bed, which was itself overspilling. Creating Your Own Clearance Rack
  • What it does imply is that biotechnology research no longer looks askance to other fields for its metaphoric Inspiration.
  • Compared to these inducements, the fact that people would look upon her askance was a very insignificant consideration. Mary Wollstonecraft
  • We look askance at claims from budding writers or actors that they should be supported by Social Security payments.
  • They grinned at each other askance, with their collars still hiding their mouths. FAMILY BLESSINGS
  • They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy.
  • That turning of the oblique globe askance, which Wesley represents as the cause of extreme heat and cold, was the very thing to _prevent_ those extremes, or to reduce them to the lowest possible point, and to secure to every part of the globe, as _far as possible_, an _equal_ amount of light and warmth. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
  • Jordan looked askance at the wrinkled clothes Aidan wore.
  • The nearest faces looked askance at me, but as I moved quickly through the crowd, I left the curious expressions behind.
  • Bonachela knows that there are people in contemporary dance who look askance at his commercial work.
  • Boyle sits upright, looking askance at my brick-like tape recorder.
  • Canadians might look askance at this, given their jaundiced attitude towards many things American.
  • The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.
  • Even Reba was looking vaguely askance at Jake's glib dismissal of a human life. DEATH IN FASHION
  • It's a mysterious place to the little girl - a place where people look at her askance, and where flowers suddenly appear from nowhere on doorsteps.
  • Furthermore, intellectual women were sometimes looked at askance as "masculinized" by some. Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well - A Dress A Day
  • Traditional British pop audiences tend to look askance at child stars.
  • You describe Tea Partiers as looking askance at Boehner's long tenure in leadership, his close ties to lobbyists and his two-pack-a-day baritone and retro Rat Pack persona. 'Vanity Fair' Writer: What Will Speaker Boehner Do?
  • He'd pulled off the wig and she hadn't looked askance as the other women had, but smiled and said, `I thought that was a rug. DOLL'S EYES
  • These strange creatures allegedly dress all in black and have their own subculture which decent Aucklanders look askance at.
  • A waiter looked askance at Ellis's jeans.
  • No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy.
  • Apparently he was a loner there, too, and looked at askance, so his family moved, which they'd been planning on doing, anyway.
  • The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.
  • The hand of history that occasionally grips the Prime Minister's shoulder disturbs a countenance effusive with passion, belief and vision, and knocks askance a golden gloriole of goodness.
  • I'll settle for a sand-filled sock and merely stun them senseless if they should as much as look at me askance on this day.
  • The visitation staff initially looked askance at the brouhaha, but they ended up laughing hysterically at the bizarre display.
  • Many people look askance at pension companies and pension salespeople.
  • She looked askance at him when he began to eat before everybody else.
  • Boyle sits upright, looking askance at my brick-like tape recorder.
  • They do not look askance at me for my wardrobe, a mix of late 1990s investment banker fashion, thrift stores, and clothing swaps with a few hand-knits thrown in.
  • Let me get a-- let me get a break and get Senator Warner to comment, because I noticed he -- he looked kind of askance at some of the things you were saying. CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2005
  • did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes
  • The public looks askance at economists because they think of them primarily as forecasters.
  • A waiter in a tuxedo looked askance at his jeans.
  • he looked askance at the offer
  • People look askance at the young driver as the car passes noisily by.
  • On the contrary, the world tends to look at him askance, a fact he himself seems to recognize.
  • His hounds look askance at the waste of good hunting time.
  • If people with suspiciously orange tans are to be looked at askance, so, too, are suspiciously orange fish.
  • The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.
  • Later that evening Luís Figo and company looked on askance as their new team-mate permitted a Japanese flunkey to protect his head from teeming rain by dashing on to the pitch with an umbrella at the final whistle. Even David Beckham could learn a thing or two from Craig Bellamy
  • They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy.
  • He pays £15 for a haircut and shave at the local barbers, looks askance at anything with a label that doesn't have Oxfam attached to it and, when asked where he got his jacket from, is proud to say "it was my grandfather's. Deconstructing the Unreconstructed Male
  • They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy.
  • The opposition party looked askance at most of the government's proposed policies.
  • her eyes with their misted askance look

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