Example sentences for: gloss

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

  • Barnicle and other Kennedy defenders, however, gloss over the same moral differences when they demand that the nation stand with Uncle Teddy and mourn the loss of "another Kennedy" instead of "assessing judgment."

  • Many manipulations that extend lifespan in model systems, whether genetic or dietary, for example, ignore or gloss over the side effects, such as permanent sterility, huge weight loss, distorted organ-to-body ratios, or major behavioural aberrations, he notes.

  • (b) The term element itself, while unquestionably from Latin—Cicero gives it as a gloss for Greek stoicheion, series ( stoichiometry is the calculation of relative quantities of reagents and their end-products in a chemical reaction)—is of obscure derivation.

  • Likewise, it might be necessary for novices to gloss non-English words that recur in bilingual road signs and other public notices: apteek chemist, links left, and the now obsolete blankes whites (only) might be truly informative for the overseas visitor.

  • There is one area that all the stories on this decision gloss over.


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