Example sentences for: glosses

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

  • At hung higher than Gilderoy's kite the author glosses kite as `body'; it is actually a word for `belly.

  • From his commentary it is clear that Thirty-five, when compiling his glossary, had access to a number of books, including Partridge's Slang To-day and Yesterday and the 1945 edition of The Australian Language . His more expansive glosses focus primarily on lexicographical matters, including some etymological speculation.

  • Tennant came into contact with Hartley through the Conscientious Objectors' Union, requested the glossary from him, and used it when writing her novel Tell Morning This . Given Hartley's stand as a conscientious objector, it is not surprising that his more expansive glosses often extend into sociological commentary.

  • But the News glosses over the reason for his retirement ("Szorentini decided that yesterday would be his last day ..."

  • Dr. Haugen declared in an article, The Rune Stones of Spirit Pond, Maine, in Man in the Northeast , No. 4, 1972, p. 77 that the stones were modern artifacts, which Chapman ruefully glosses as fakes.


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