What's the difference between sidelong and sideways?

Sidelong


Definition:

  • (adv.) Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
  • (adv.) On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.
  • (a.) Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With such knowledge comes a predictable illusion of power, though this is all too regularly punctured by the indignity of being kicked out of shiny receptions and told to use an entrance more befitting of our lowly status – or of having my pronunciation of “Southwark Street” incorrectly corrected by a receptionist, who gives her colleague a sidelong smirk, commiserating over my supposed ignorance.
  • (2) For the record, British people have been doing this sort of thing naturally and without the aid of technology for centuries – that is, issuing a sidelong response during an awkward encounter, a protocol that escalates, in times of outright conflict, to the tangential screw-you.
  • (3) Fitzgerald gives me a sidelong glance and adds: "I have to stop being quoted there.
  • (4) A few months later, the Eid video’s sidelong references to fighting and jihad were placed in a much starker contrast, in a release that again focused on Isis’s substantial foreign fighter contingent.
  • (5) But apart from the odd sidelong glance, she didn't seem to make the connection.
  • (6) After a while I felt my mind wandering and enviously glanced sidelong at my fellow members, most of whom appeared positively riveted.
  • (7) RT @chucktodd : Only reason Senate GOP isn't meeting tonight to look over potential deal, not all senators are back in DC right now October 14, 2013 • Sidelong glances already are being thrown in the direction of House speaker John Boehner.
  • (8) Stares, sidelong looks, peeping out from behind columns, that kind of thing.

Sideways


Definition:

  • (adv.) Toward the side; sidewise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
  • (2) He just look sideways and for some reason it’s funny.” But Clement himself names Rhys Darby, aka the Conchords’ manager, Murray, who plays a werewolf in Shadows, as the funniest man he has ever worked with – even if he does appear in “too many ads”.
  • (3) In a sideways reference to his own description of investment banks as casinos, King acknowledged it is almost impossible to measure risk and for regulators to keep up.
  • (4) He exited the sand trap sideways, was ultimately left 8ft for par but missed to the left.
  • (5) He would have been knocking it all sideways.” Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy, 1860-1960 is at the National Portrait Gallery , London, 16 October – 11 January.
  • (6) I remember the way I slid sideways through rows of desks, my arms crossed over my chest.
  • (7) Sometimes, it is because a senior minister will not accept the sideways shuffle that is envisaged for them, and sometimes it is simply because the prime minister loses his nerve.
  • (8) At most companies offering 6%, the dividend is under threat or going sideways.
  • (9) But when Davie went to BBC Worldwide, via a few months as acting director general, the job went to Helen Boaden , moved sideways out of BBC News last year in the wake of the Savile scandal.
  • (10) The role of retinal Müller cells in spatial buffering is considered quantitatively: both buffering to the tissue surface and buffering sideways through cell-to-cell connections.
  • (11) ), aggressive episodes (offensive sideways posture and attack bite) were significantly suppressed in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (12) In Adelaide we 'wet-set' our instruments, in Darwin we had small pre-packed trays which were set on trolleys sideways, and in Perth we had pre-sterilised boxes of instruments which we laid out on trolleys ourselves.
  • (13) Also, proper douching that directs liquid sideways, not toward the cervix, should further reduce risk, It is underscored that contraceptive efficacy is not an effectiveness rate, but a failure rate.
  • (14) It was easy to detect their frustration during the first half and there was no shortage of chuntering whenever the ball went sideways or back.
  • (15) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
  • (16) In it two grown-up cherubs seem to be flying sideways.
  • (17) Johnson said the need to continue the austerity programme into the next parliament had been caused by George Osborne's decision to allow borrowing to rise while the economy has moved sideways over the past two years, rather than tighten policy further.
  • (18) The football administrator Brian Marwood, previously in charge of recruitment, has been moved sideways to become the managing director of the club's academy in a move overseen by City's new chief executive, Ferran Soriano, who worked with Begiristain at the Camp Nou.
  • (19) The sideways looks in predominantly white areas suggesting your presence there is beyond the norm.
  • (20) Direct sagittal CT was performed by placing the entire infant sideways and supine within the gantry after metrizamide was injected.