GLAZE in a Sentence

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The roof was in shadow, and the windows, partially glazed with coloured glass and partially unglazed, admitted a tempered light.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLAZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
glaze
 n.  thin smooth shiny coating; glassy film, as one over the eyes
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  She asked again about the fields, the gardens, the stock, and her green eyes had a hard bright glaze which Pork had never seen in them before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  He was aware that the qualities distinguishing her from the herd of her sex were chiefly external: as though a fine glaze of beauty and fastidiousness had been applied to vulgar clay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
3  They both laughed, and he knelt by the table to light the lamp under the kettle, while she measured out the tea into a little tea-pot of green glaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
4  Her intentions in short had never been more definite; but poor Lily, for all the hard glaze of her exterior, was inwardly as malleable as wax.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
5  But she was growing less sensitive on such points: a hard glaze of indifference was fast forming over her delicacies and susceptibilities, and each concession to expediency hardened the surface a little more.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
6  The crabs hung on the branches as thick as beads on a string, purple-red, with a thin silvery glaze over them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
7  His eyes were glazed, his sides matted with sweat.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
8  Mrs. Swithin's eyes glazed as she looked at it.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
9  Under the thick plate of green water, glazed in their self-centred world, fish swam--gold, splashed with white, streaked with black or silver.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
10  Let me turn away," she murmured, turning, "from the array"--she looked desolately round her--"of china faces, glazed and hard.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
11  Nor the chatter of china faces glazed and hard.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
12  Taking an order, his whole self had changed, glazed over with a sort of hardness and distance.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
13  He wore a glazed hat, an ancient boat-cloak, and shoes; his brass buttons bearing an anchor upon their face.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
14  The roof was in shadow, and the windows, partially glazed with coloured glass and partially unglazed, admitted a tempered light.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
15  Presently Tom lifted his head with a jerk and after staring around the garage with glazed eyes addressed a mumbled incoherent remark to the policeman.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  A lot of people's eyes glaze over if you say you are a feminist.
2  Sometimes his eyes would glaze over for a second or two.
3  That glaze is just a mix of strained pulp and sugar.
4  That reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights.
5  The accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.
6  From the students' glazed looks, it was easy for me to infer that they were bored out of their minds.
7  That reservoir of frost and snow, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights.
8  And I worked in the back with the bakers; I used to put the glazed cherries on top of the cookies.
9  With a glazed stare she revived for one last instant.
10  Doctors with glazed eyes sat chain-smoking in front of a television set.
11  You should insure against loss of heat by having double glazing.
12  You should ensure against loss of heat by having double glazing.
13  You should ensure yourself against loss of heat by having double glazing.
14  As I laid her down, I covered her ice-cold and clammy hand with mine: the feeble fingers shrank from my touch; the glazing eyes shunned my gaze.