GLARING in a Sentence

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The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head! Off--'

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 Meanings and Examples of GLARING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
glaring
 a.  shining intensely and blindingly; staring with anger or fierceness
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1  Ethan, glaring at his face in the glass, threw his head back to draw the razor from ear to chin.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The air was oppressive even in the early morning hour, hot with the scorching promise of a noon of glaring blue sky and pitiless bronze sun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  She entered the room and sat down on the bed that was glaring with harsh sunshine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  It was blindingly, glaring hot and as she hurried down Peachtree Street her temples began to throb from the heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  Never anything like these stinking, bleeding bodies broiling under the glaring sun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  Mammy stood as though turned to stone glaring at Dilcey but Scarlett dropped her head into her hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Scarlett thought of the rows of cotton beneath the glaring coppery sky at Tara and how her back had ached as she bent over them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  She sank into the proffered chair, glaring at the discomfited fat captain, and gave her name.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  The red scar which boiling fat had left last month was ugly and glaring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  The store stood near Five Points, its new roof glaring against the smoked bricks of the old walls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  It was a lovely afternoon, sunny but not too hot, bright but not glaring, and the warm breeze that rustled the trees along Peachtree Street made the plumes on Scarlett's bonnet dance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
12  She stood in the hall, irresolute, frightened, and the glaring light of the fire in the sitting room threw tall dim shadows on the walls about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
13  The white temple of the Farmers' Bank was elbowed back by a grocery of glaring yellow brick.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  Here was no glaring new house with a proud phonograph, but a low whitewashed kitchen smelling of cream and cabbage.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  The telegraph wires thrummed, thrummed, thrummed above them; the rails were glaring hard lines; the goldenrod smelled dusty.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The old gentleman just stood there glaring at the pickpocket and did not say a word.
2  The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head! Off--'
3  In 2002, almost 1.2 billion human beings lived in glaring poverty, earning less than one dollar a day.
4  The sequel short-changes Angelina Jolie's heroine, of the glaring green contact lenses, black horns on her head and ultra-sharp prosthetic cheekbones.
5  As Bush prepares to formally enter the race for president, there is a glaring disconnect between his ravenous fundraising and support among the Republican elite, and the reception from everyday voters like Doss, 57.
6  I never saw such a glaring example of misrepresentation.
7  The sun glared out of the blue sky.
8  He glared at Nikitin but the General Secretary stared him out with hard, pebble-like eyes.
9  He drew himself up to his full height and glared at us.
10  Dark glasses are an effective shield against the glare.
11  He tried not to let his irritation show as he blinked in the glare of the television lights.
12  The actor's wedding took place in the full glare of publicity/the media.
13  We wore sunglasses to reduce the glare from the road.
14  The walls were whitewashed to reflect the glare of the sun.
15  When the sun was at its zenith, the glare was not as strong as at sunrise and sunset.