Example Sentences

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For years, that has brought an impressive reward: The Premier League has gloried in its financial potency.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2021

They sit amid trees and bushes, majestic reminders of just how long the Parco di Monza has gloried in motor racing.

From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2018

Of course, artists have made great art in book form for decades, centuries even, and New York has gloried in earlier art-bookstore golden ages, done in by real estate prices and shifting tastes.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2012

In one of the most important speeches, President Leopold Senghor of Senegal, the unofficial poet laureate of black Africa, made an extraordinary statement for an area that has gloried in shucking off colonial rule.

From Time Magazine Archive

Robert Nelson spoke of it as the good and wholesome doctrine of the Church of England, 'wherein she has gloried as her special characteristic....

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)