Example sentences for: gliding

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

  • This week, we challenge you to get from the official United States Hang Gliding Association site to this page, which tells you where to find hoary marmots.

  • The strokes are isolated and tentative, gliding over the smooth paint surface like someone ice-skating the day after a cast comes off.

  • In spring and autumn, storks, buzzards, and other soaring birds fill the skies as they climb in the rising thermals before gliding across the strait on their annual migration, congregating here where the sea crossing is at its shortest.

  • The writer Bill McKibben begins his meditation on television and nature, The Age of Missing Information , by describing a duck gliding around a pond, contrasting a morning spent watching its languorous motion with the rat-tat-tat of images and data on more than 100 cable TV channels--images that, he argues, carry far less information about the way the world works than the back-and-forth of that lone quacker.

  • It's not just that slow-motion scenes of the ambulance gliding past people beating one another up feel like déjà vu . It's that Schrader hasn't rethought Connelly's trumped-up story line.


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