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.

  • Körting's Lateinisch-Romanisches Wörterbuch (Stechert's 1923 repr.) glossed cilium as eyebrow, as the only meaning (Col. 271, No. 2176).

  • 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.

  • Wilde's homosexuality was ignored for decades, then glossed over.


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