Example sentences for: gloss

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

  • When the elderly kill themselves, we gloss over that fact: It isn't really a tragedy, not like a teen-ager's suicide, or a young mother's.

  • They are essentially clip jobs, repackaging newspaper and TV reports with a gloss of new opinion.

  • Gawande tries to gloss over his discomfort--everyone's discomfort--with the cruelty and injustice of abortion by comparing it to other unpleasant surgical procedures.

  • signed a contract with Oliver Stone, who plans a movie about the assassination (just imagine the scene where J. Edgar Hoover, dolled up in tutu and lip gloss, orders the King hit);

  • Lest anyone associate Gore with Bill Clinton's sex life, two of the departments you can click to from any page are "The Gore Family " and "Tipper Gore ." And while other sites gloss over the legal rules for giving money, this contribution form requires donors to check boxes stating, "I am not a foreign national who lacks permanent resident status in the United States" and "The funds I am contributing are my own personal funds and not those of another."


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