Example sentences for: glide

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

  • Every evening at sunset, thousands of white herons return from a day’s fishing in the rice paddies and glide in to nest in the trees.

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

  • He was the youngest of three younger brothers, all of whom shared a father different from Kincaid's, and although he was sharp and curious as a boy, he threw away his talents and made a fatal decision to glide through life on charm alone.

  • (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.)

  • 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.


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