Example sentences for: glossed

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

  • This rather pleasing etymology stood for a while but was discredited when R.M.W. Dixon failed to find an etymon in a Queensland language, despite a brave attempt to locate the origin in a putative Jagara word which was glossed as wandering white man.

  • Surf club , glossed as `lifesaving club,' is first found in 1913, Surf and LifeSaving Club in 1915.

  • And yet the most obvious takeaway from all this, from a Wisconsin welfare-to-work official, is pushed down to nearly 4,000 words in and then glossed over quickly: "We're in the first few years of a new system after 60 years of welfare."

  • Visitors as well as locals who are faced with a barrage of acronyms in everyday usage will find many of them glossed in these pages.

  • The headword toad is duly glossed, as padda, karta , and then--quite needlessly--illustrated, with this remarkably elucidating sentence: the toad was delighted to see his mother again .


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