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
Ms. Turner played on the basketball team at Carver High School in the 1950s and pushed the glee club to a first-place trophy.
From New York Times • May 29, 2023
Martha, the family’s American-born citizen, would bounce from the Bremerton High glee club to a stint at UW to her parents’ latest venture: farming.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2021
The morning had a celebratory air — two bands, a glee club and speeches awaited the men at Union Station — but it was serious, too.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2020
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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