Example Sentences

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I just know they’re the type of people who love a good board game — one with rules that take a half-hour to explain, by which time their guests’ eyes have glazed over.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

I know your eyes have glazed over by this point and you wonder why in the world anyone should care about this.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2023

They press play, and four hours later their eyes have glazed over.

From Time • Jan. 5, 2016

I would have glazed it with some honey.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2011

The drawers should be looked by "pilasters," or have glazed and framed doors.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu