Example sentences for: glosses

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Some conservative dictionaries published earlier in the 20th century listed a huge number of Scotticisms on the (justifiable) grounds that they would be useful in reading Burns; but most school editions containing Burns's poetry later on supplied glosses, so an ancillary reference proved unnecessary.

  • Even if this method of categorization is important from a marketing perspective, it often glosses over what is, in fact, common to many products that seem different and different about products that seem the same.


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