Example Sentences

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Days before we left, his gray parrot, who every summer for three years had gloried in sitting in the apple tree each morning, flew away.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2018

Privileged women had gloried in the title of “lady” and traded any potential claim to independence for support, protection, refinement, and exemption from physical labor.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Almost immediately, the stations and other media outlets that had gloried in the trick went all Edward R. Murrow.

From Newsweek • Dec. 10, 2012

Francis I. had gloried in being a leader in the great movement for the revival of learning which marked the opening of the sixteenth century.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon

Later, when tales of his "smartness," as sailor or mate, or by and by, a full rated captain, began to drift back, she had gloried in them.

From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby