Example sentences for: gloriously

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

  • Mr. Bryson was over-hasty to condemn that bomber jacket in Hamburg as “gloriously meaningless” [XVIII, 2], for anyone who has spent time on a farm would recognize it as intended for people supplying chickenfeed to egg producers: what it bears is a good plain advertisement for the product.

  • Anyone who has traveled almost anywhere in the world in the past couple of years will have noticed that young people everywhere sport T-shirts, sweatshirts, and warm-up jackets bearing messages that are invariably (1) in English and (2) gloriously meaningless.

  • The income tax, for example, is gloriously inefficient.

  • The interior hall is an acoustically perfect auditorium renovated in 1980 (its predecessors having twice perished in war and revolution), but the façade has been gloriously restored in mid-19th-century Hungarian-Eastern style.

  • The tight, clockwork construction of his early masterpiece, the heist drama The Killing , is gloriously in sync--and then bitterly at odds--with the robbery's unraveling.


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