Example sentences for: glossed

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

  • Evita: In the New Republic , historian Enrique Krauze lists the horrors of Perónism glossed over by the musical and film: the torture and murder of political opponents, often under Nazi tutelage; the sheltering of war criminals, possibly for personal profit; the destruction of the Argentine economy; the laying of the cornerstone for the "Dirty Wars" of the 1970s and 1980s.

  • The review of my Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications [XVII,4] made no mention of the fact that the quoted dedications are glossed or explicated.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • • English names written in romanji: a (always glossed in parentheses as alpha), Access, CoCo, Damn Rockers, Dreams Come True, Escalators Vanilla (possibly inspired by the `60's American bands Vanilla Fudge, The Mood Elevators, and Strawberry Alarm Clock, though made ludicrous in conforming to Japanese grammar which requires the adjective to follow the noun), Hound Dog, Jigger's Son (four guys), Judy and Mary (three guys backing a girl singer), Princess, Tube, Wink, Zoo.


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