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How to use glare in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Glare means an intense, blinding light. Example: “He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.”

Examples of glare by meaning

nounA smooth, bright, glassy surface.

  • a glare of ice

verbTo stare angrily.

  • He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.

verbTo shine brightly.

  • The sun glared down on the desert sand.

adjectiveSmooth and bright or translucent; glary.

  • skating on glare ice

More sentences with glare

  • I only go outdoors at night, away from the daystar's burning glare.From the entry daystar
  • Looking at me with a knowing glare, she blushed her discomfort with the situation.From the entry blush
  • Everyone glared in disapproval at the man talking loudly on the phone.From the entry disapproval
  • He looked at me with a fixed glare.From the entry fixed
  • Janice's furious glare showed that her apology was insincere.From the entry insincere
  • Since home plate is generally in the southwest corner to avoid glare in the batter's eyes, a southpaw's pitching hand is to the south.From the entry southpaw
  • She gave him a fearsome glare.From the entry fearsome
  • He glared furiously at the offender.From the entry furiously
  • You step under it, then into the glare of fluorescent lights.2025 November 17, Anna Kodé, “New York’s Bodegas Are Here to Stay”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry bodega
  • Hannibal emerges from the cage, glares at me, and lumbers off toward the kitchen.2019, Tess Gerritsen, The Shape of Night: The spine-tingling thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller, Random House, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry release the kraken
  • Open all the way,” I grumbled and glared down at it.2018, Lila Rose, Making Sense, page 73. From the entry piece of poop
  • Her pale blue-blues glare out from a fishnetty pattern of eyeshadow that raccoons up her face.2016, Robert J[ason] Peterson, “Booker, Glenn”, in Omegaball, Los Angeles, Calif.: A California Coldblood Book, Rare Bird Books, →ISBN…. From the entry fishnetty
  • In the hard glare of the Searchlight, which had been manned by Seaman 2nd class Evans W.2012, Charles Lockwood, Tragedy at Honda, page 65. From the entry unearthly
  • Stupefying heat shimmered in the mangrove forest, the sun an unfaceable white glare somewhere overhead.2011, A. A. Jameson, Shark People, page 113. From the entry unfaceable
  • I passed from the jaundiced lighting of the parking garage to the halogen glare of the walkway.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.62-63. From the entry sunning
  • "And"—Skeeter glared at Casper with killer eyes—"I kin tell you sumpthin' too, Mistah White Boy.2008, Tracy Price-Thompson, A Woman's Worth, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry seent
  • This new artificial 'pupil' can attenuate symptoms such as glare and phengophobia (Fig. 4).2007, C. Hong, Angle Closure Glaucoma, page 267. From the entry phengophobia
  • The glare softened, "Today the daymeal is to be broth and tatties and cheese.2006, Patrick Cave, Sharp North. From the entry daymeal
  • That got me a wordless glare that would’ve fricasséed a squid.2005, David Wishart, Food for the Fishes, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN. From the entry fricassée
  • Looked around the lounge for tipped-off creditors – one beetly glare and I would have bolted.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN. From the entry beetly
  • Russ tipped the magazine slightly to reduce the glare from the lamp.2003, David M. Pierce, Elf Child, The Hatworth Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry dishwater blond
  • He glared down at me and said, "On your way, fella.2003, Paul McAuley, Whole Wide World, Macmillan, page 215. From the entry Klaatu barada nikto
  • I felt her glare, saw some of its fiery glow in my peripheral.2000, Eric Jerome Dicke, Milk in My Coffee. From the entry peripheral
  • He bounded over cresting waves that shone in the actinic glare.1999, Jody Lynn Nye, School of Light. From the entry actinic
  • Flynt shifted in his chair, breasting his cards, then glared at Sunny.1995, Jane Peart, A Distant Dawn, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry breast one's cards
  • Carl glared at the Greenpeace stall a few metres further along the mall.1992, Elizabeth Knox, Treasure, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry posy-sniffer
  • The man glared at her and said, "Now you've done it.1986, Rita-Lou Clarke, Pastoral Care of Battered Women, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry do it
  • She considered wheeling on him with a glare and an icy whisper: “Amscray, Buster!”1978, Shirley Nelson, The Last Year of the War, page 46. From the entry amscray
  • L." He glared at the sky as if daring it to lighten without his permission.1978, Phyllis S. Moore, Williwaw, Breakwater Books, page 164. From the entry superferocious
  • Had earthquakes shaken the windows atilt so they mirrored intruders with distorted gleams and glares?1969, Ray Bradbury, “The Haunting of the New”, in I Sing the Body Electric!, New York: Knopf, page 136. From the entry atilt
  • Two Romans ahorse were circling about four dismounted Cimbri, who stood back to back and glared.1960, Poul Anderson, chapter 2, in The Golden Slave,, New York: Avon. From the entry ahorse
  • White plastic jalousies were drawn half up the windows to cut the glare from the sand.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 126. From the entry jalousie
  • He glared malevolently at the shining porcelain, and then shook his head lugubriously.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 25. From the entry malevolently
  • J. stuck an impeccably loafered-and-bobby-socked foot upon the desk and glared at it.1944 October, Clariss Ross, “Northwestern for Its Pretty Girls”, in Justine Miller, Charlotte Rogers, editors, Purple Parrot, volume XXIV…. From the entry loafered
  • Agnes, considerably scratched up, gives him a snakely glare as she pats her wounds with a handkerchief.1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay). From the entry snakely
  • The sun was almost at zenith and the glare was dazzlingly intense.1941, Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi, London: Secker & Warburg, published 1945, Part One, p. 22. From the entry dazzlingly

Meaning of glare

  1. noun An intense, blinding light.
  2. noun Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
  3. noun An angry or fierce stare.

Full definition of glare

Questions about glare in a sentence

How do you use glare in a sentence?
Glare is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.”
What is a short sentence with glare?
“a glare of ice”
What does glare mean?
Glare means an intense, blinding light.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glare (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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