Example sentences for: glorified

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

  • For all the attention given to electronic commerce of late, and the incredibly high valuation being given to companies that lose scads of money, some of the business on the Web is little more than a glorified version of selling crap on the Internet.

  • "Our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud."

  • Critics deem the hit show's $60 million film adaptation a "glorified TV episode" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ). Some attack its incomprehensibly labyrinthine plot, which is wrapped around an alien-government conspiracy.

  • The bars are, in general "glorified candy bars," and if you read the label, they often list high-fructose corn syrup as their first ingredient.

  • Nominated for the Booker Prize in England, Desai's novel of a small-town family in India is deemed "splendid" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ). The two parts of the title refer to the internal structure of the book, the first half following the life of the family's plain and somewhat dim older daughter, who after failing to marry is consigned to the life of a glorified house servant.


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