What is "glance over"

Usage examples of "glance over".

Breathing in deepening pants, she cast a quick glance over her shoulder.

Without a glance over his shoulder he lifted the latch and stepped within.

She saw Jayta stir, glance over her shoulder at the painted expanse of the wall at their backs.

Her father shot Inos a perplexed glance over the top of Kadie’.

I stooped to collect the fallen papers, and the king had the gallantry to assist me: we soon piled the various letters upon a tray, and began eagerly to glance over their contents.

A quick glance over the boards revealed that there was a magnetic field of some strength nearby, one that didn't belong to the invisible gas giant revolving half a million miles away.

Seizing Perry by the shoulder I dragged him to his feet, and rushing to a smaller tree--one that he could easily encircle with his arms and legs--I boosted him as far up as I could, and then left him to his fate, for a glance over my shoulder revealed the awful beast almost upon me.

Well, it would be interesting to say that I was able to deal with such complicated and abstruse questions in flight but of course I did not, fear and self hatred carried me along and helped me to shut out their sounds but I became aware then of footsteps alongside me, someone drawing up to match pace and as I threw a frantic glance over the left shoulder I saw the thin and terrifying youth with which all of this had begun and I tried to run faster but no hope, no way, I was extended to my limits and not used to physical action in any case, breath coming une­.

Then, with a glance over her shoulder to make certain that Grandpa was not going to mess with the detonator, she pulled the blasting cap out.

If I was the head of a country that lost a war, and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as I was signing Id glance over the treaty and then suddenly act surprised.

Something in her tone made him glance over, and he found her gazing tight-lipped into the forest.

A man with his liver in such a state might very well have seen a floating spark in the corner of his eye when stealing a hurried glance over his shoulder.

A glance over my shoulder showed me the sithic engaged in pawing at the spear stuck through his lower jaw, and so busily engaged did he remain in this occupation that I had gained the safety of the cliff top before he was ready to take up the pursuit.