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How to use glade in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Glade means an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. Example: “Then you won't be in the baby glade any more.” The flightlings smiled proudly at each other.”

Examples of glade by meaning

nounA bright surface of ice or snow.

  • a glade of ice

More sentences with glade

  • Then you won't be in the baby glade any more.” The flightlings smiled proudly at each other.2013, Berlie Doherty, The Starburster Stories, page 84. From the entry flightling
  • Mara watched her misshod feet with fey detachment as the person that was herself left the glade.2012, Raymond E. Feist, Janny Wurts, Mistress of the Empire, page 67. From the entry misshod
  • Half a dozen of the thumbnail-size males lekked in a sunny glade.2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, unnumbered page. From the entry lek
  • She shooshed from the glades and stopped in front of me.1990, Leath Tonino, “Seven Lengths of Vermont”, in The Animal One Thousand Miles Long: Seven Lengths of Vermont and Other Adventures…. From the entry shoosh
  • The glade where he stood was tropical in nature and should have been swashed in a hundred shades of green.2014, Jill Jones, A Scent of Magic. From the entry swash
  • August the twenty-eighth - the day we saw five live iguanodons in a glade of Maple White Land.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry iguanodon
  • The locales of Westeros aren’t airy glades, fields or castles in the sky; they are brothels and ale houses full of dark and grimy corners.2018 October 15, Charles Yu, “George R. R. Martin, Fantasy’s Reigning King”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry ale house
  • A ribbon of sand and grass bisected the pluff mud, and on the other side a lovely glade opened, gleaming like an emerald.2014 July 8, Anne Rivers Siddons, The Girls of August, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry pluff mud
  • One day, not long—in our reckoning—after thou, Ashalind, hadst taken away the children, he brought me to a glade where a platform was raised.2002, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Lady of the Sorrows (The Bitterbynde; II), New York, N.Y.: Aspect, Warner Books, Inc., →ISBN, pages 394–395. From the entry dwarrow
  • His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades.1978, John Geraint Jenkins, Traditional Country Craftsmen, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry bodge
  • Coming suddenly round a corner into a glade of silver birch trees Edmund saw the ground covered in all directions with little yellow flowers—celandines.1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998. From the entry celandine
  • Brown impersonally reciting the latest Pennsylvania poll results is a little like entering a cool forest glade after an hour on an unairconditioned subway car at rush hour.2008 April 7, Alessandra Stanley, “A New Star as Campaign Programs Shuffle: The News”, in New York Times. From the entry unairconditioned
  • Some day, when the Wateaus of the future are painting the court ladies who again dance pavanes in sunlit glades, wearing wigs and crinoline, such data will amuse.1917, Emily Burbank, Woman as Decoration. From the entry pavane
  • We rode all the way to the lake, and because Billy was my Patronus, he rode straight past the picnic benches and into the hidden glade only locals knew about.2021, Garrett Leigh, Unforgotten, Carina Press, →ISBN. From the entry patronus
  • In thickets and woods, Wisteria floribunda is a common native there and is about to reach its flowering peak, filling its glades with that characteristic fruity, tuberose, mildly camphory scent.2012 May 24, Sarah Raven, “Wonderful Wisteria”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry camphory
  • But if the animals are few the flowers are plentiful, especially in the open glades and along the brook, where I find clusters of larkspur, blue flax and Sego lilies.1968, Edward Abbey, “Tukuhnikivats, the Island in the Desert”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished…. From the entry blue flax

Meaning of glade

  1. noun An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
  2. noun An everglade.
  3. noun An open space in the ice on a river or lake.

Full definition of glade

Questions about glade in a sentence

How do you use glade in a sentence?
Glade is used as a noun. For example: “Then you won't be in the baby glade any more.” The flightlings smiled proudly at each other.”
What is a short sentence with glade?
“a glade of ice”
What does glade mean?
Glade means an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

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