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"Gloss" in a Sentence (19 examples)
The girl bought some lip gloss at the convenience store.
I can't find my lip gloss.
Mary applied some lip gloss.
Will the media really continue to gloss over corporate tax avoidance?
Rima applied lip gloss on her lips.
Rima was wearing lip gloss because she was in love with someone.
"Could you lend me your lip gloss? I bet it'd look great on me." "Ew, no! You could get me sick!"
Curators say the display gives visitors an opportunity to look at the real stories of espionage ‘behind the gloss of make-believe.’
The furniture was beautifully polished, but did not have a bright gloss.
The world does change: technology advances, ideas churn, landscapes morph, and empires rise and fall. Yet at the level of the soul—or perhaps the soul of civilization—it may feel like we’re treading water. Patterns repeat. Greed returns. Compassion fades. Then reemerges, fragile and flickering. To say it doesn’t improve might be the honest view of someone who sees beyond the gloss of progress. It isn’t pessimism—it’s discernment. There’s a difference between blind cynicism and lucid sorrow. Still, the effort to not be a pessimist—that speaks volumes. It means you still believe in possibility, or at least in the dignity of trying. As T.S. Eliot wrote: "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." Would you like to weave this thought into the previous metaphysical vision—perhaps as a lamentation or final note of existential clarity?
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To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One native charm than all the gloss of art.
Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.
All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.
He was a prolific annotator - writing around fifty thousand glosses in as many as twenty manuscripts.
This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it.
Judicial Gloss on Test [section title]
Dictionary entries comprise two essential parts, the headword ('lemma') and the author's explanation ('gloss').
Therefore, for many of the Hebrew words in this book, I have provided more than one gloss (using a slash to separate alternatives, or double slashes when a single slash would be ambiguous), in order to give you a sense of the possible meanings of nuances […].
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