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Glanced Glance I Newspaper Report Book Spend Short

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If you g_____ through or at a newspaper, report, or book, you spend a short time looking at it without reading it very carefully.If you glance through or at a newspaper, report, or book, you spend a short time looking at it without reading it very carefully.
I picked up the phone book and glanced through it.
I never even glanced at the political page of a daily paper.
word glance
full-definition
verb
If you glance at something or someone, you look at them very quickly and then look away again immediately .
He glanced at his watch.
I glanced back.
If you glance through or at a newspaper, report, or book, you spend a short time looking at it without reading it very carefully.
I picked up the phone book and glanced through it.
I never even glanced at the political page of a daily paper.
noun
A glance is a quick look at someone or something.
Trevor and I exchanged a glance.
...stealing a quick glance at her watch.
inflections glancesglancingglanced
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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