Example sentences for: glide

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

  • This root, or closely related ones, such as * ghol , yield a whole slough of modern English words via various Proto-Germanic and related IE roots: yellow, gild, gall (a yellowish substance), choler, cholera, melancholy black bile, and chlorine , all via Greek kholé yellow bile and Greek chlidé luxury and Proto-Germanic * ghhleid and * glazem: gleam, glint, glimmer, glisten, glass, glaze, gloss, glance, glade, glee, glow, gloaming, glide , and glissade --quite a haul from what is basically a single root!

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

  • 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."

  • My fingers glide across the soft paper like skates on a pond.

  • 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.


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