Example Sentences

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Nevertheless, any hint of uncertainty may be enough to upset Wall Street after the S&P 500 has glided higher in almost uninterrupted fashion since October, leaving stocks looking expensive and with less room for error.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2021

Rubio, 44, has sought to shrug off the criticism as he has glided from diners to packed town hall meetings delivering his message of generational change.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2016

With the poise and perspective earned from nearly 20 years of awkward auditions, Larson has glided, comfortably, into the spotlight, including the glare of awards season.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2015

By its end it has glided into pinpoint Minimalism, floated over jazzy odd meters and surged with a giant guitar drone-crescendo, “Adrift,” that has Ms. Haden wordlessly wailing and quavering, Middle Eastern style.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2011

It is a dreamy mysticism; an indefinite semi-supernaturalism, often passing into gloom; a feeling as of Buddhism which has glided into Northern snows, and taken a new and darker life in winter-lands. 

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey