glee club
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of glee club
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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“Like, I really taught ‘First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ to my junior high school girls’ glee club to get their attention.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2025
Or, Dartmouth could stop treating the players like employees and downgrade the teams to club status, like the glee club and the other self-funded student organizations that look more like hobbies than jobs.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2024
In David Spade’s comedy “Dickie Roberts, Former Child Star,” Mr. Dow sang in the front row of a glee club of former child stars.
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2022
Her new album “Star-Crossed” is filled with expensive-sounding pop songs sung flat and plain — no florid residue of a try-hard voice forged in show choir, glee club or a televised singing contest.
From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2021
I heard the girls’ glee club I used to sing in, way off from the other side of camp, their tiny grade-school sopranos singing, “Beauti-ful dreamer, wake unto me.”
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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