Example Sentences

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And still, people kept going back to try their luck, men who gloried in nicknames such as Twitchlip Kelly and Two-Gun Don Rosenkrantz.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

More accurately, she added, he was “a quintessential” man of the Renaissance, which gloried in the revival of not only art and literature but also science and explorations of nature.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2023

"I think the critics are looking backwards to a gloried past, and fail to see the strategic picture vis a vis China and technology in a really disappointing way," he says.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2023

I had taken off my head covering because of the heat and then stood in the open and gloried in the cool rain as it beaded on my head.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022

She grew very big—abnormally big, even at a time when women gloried in big babies and counted extra pounds with pride.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck