Example Sentences
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From her earliest years, Emily thrilled to the austere glories of the landscape, with its great desolate stretches of rocky turf and rushing waterways all shaped and pummeled by winds that whistled and “wuthered.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
A defiant Djokovic said he never doubted that he could relive past glories.
From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026
He remains a popular figure, but badly needs something more than a cool number plate to remind him of past glories.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
As Ganz archly observed, “the word for the politics that makes a pastiche of past glories to create a new type of regime is ‘fascism.'”
From Salon • Sep. 10, 2025
“Oh, I think He glories in them!” she hastened to say.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
