Example sentences for: glide

How can you use “glide” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The sublimity comes in the way those fragments of a Romantic vision glide together with artifacts of ordinariness--bottles, pots, shoes, grass.

  • Exotic trees and flowers are mingled with statuary, and black swans glide across a small pond.

  • This scene often involuntarily flitted across my mind during the past winter, when I spent a lot of time watching people glide across expanses of ice on skates.

  • (It was especially shocking to see New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, who worships the legal process and has taught at Harvard Law, glide smoothly over the distinction between lying to your friends and lying under oath.)

  • But because it is put forward by a fatuous Charleston, S.C., college professor, we hear it for what Horwitz rightly calls it: "a clever glide around race and slavery, rather like the slick-tongued defense of the Southern 'way of life' made by antebellum orators, South Carolinians in particular."


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