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How to use glaring in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Glaring means reflecting with glare. Example: “How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!”

Examples of glaring by meaning

adjectiveBlatant, obvious.

  • How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!

adjectiveGarish.

  • painted in glaring oranges and greens

nounA group of cats.

  • But as she knows, as Greville has come to accept, in a glaring of cats incidents considered 'dirty' to the human viewpoint are but an occurrence of nature to the feline.2014, K.D. Knight, Eight Cats at Number Twenty Seven
  • Paige often envisioned herself as an old woman, dying alone in her house, lying undiscovered until her glaring of cats had eaten her remains.2016, Mary Cruz, The Ashes of Murderous Lies, AuthorHouse
  • Quickly, a glaring of cats raced through the door.2013, Sarah J. Pepper, Death of the Mad Hatter, page 3

More sentences with glaring

  • He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.From the entry glare
  • The tests have to be rescored because of glaring mistakes made during grading.From the entry rescore
  • They decided to stop arguing over which spelling was correct after she began glaring murderously at each person who participated.From the entry murderously
  • She flaps her hands and arms, eyes glaring, head shaking – charading Non, non, NON!2015, Graeme Fife, Tour de France: The History, The Legend, The Riders. From the entry charade
  • The kitchen stewardess says madam sits there glaring at the paper on the wall.2013, Tanith Lee, A Heroine of the World. From the entry stewardess
  • A howler is a glaring mistake, a mistake that cries out to be noticed.2009, Tom Burton, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 78. From the entry howler
  • The car pulled off the road with the headlights glaring at the 'peg legged' deer.2009, Carlos Reid, Stalking the Warden, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry peg legged
  • Each staccato flare of light was glaring and vehement and expanded into the corners of the room.2005, Matthew Vierling, Last Refuge, →ISBN, page 421. From the entry kill zone
  • Sorry if you expected your glaring snobisms to go unobserved and without comment from the peanut gallery.2001 September 18, Nimrod``, “TV Land Therapy”, in rec.arts.movies.past-films (Usenet), retrieved 03 May 2022. From the entry snobism
  • He was standing in front of the elevator, glaring at her.1984, Connie Willis, Blued Moon. From the entry withspeak
  • Suddenly it is a Mexican standoff—with both sides glaring but nobody swinging a punch yet.1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 255. From the entry Mexican standoff
  • The sun was bright and blinding overhead, surrounded by reddish clouds, glaring down on the fairy city.1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling. From the entry blotchy
  • The qulis guided us by instinct, stumbling on through alternating blackness and evilly glaring light.1961, Henry Gibbs, The Hills of India. From the entry quli
  • But the man refused to talk - his brow lowering, his eyes glaring unwaveringly.1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 126. From the entry unwaveringly
  • “That's what this moron did,” Louise McKay shouted, glaring at Abbie and me as though to defy us to question her.2011, Donald E. Westlake, Somebody Owes Me Money, →ISBN. From the entry shlemozzle
  • Dressed, aspirined and hidden behind oversized sunglasses, Caitlin emerged from her front doorway into a sadistically glaring sun.2010, Alexandra Sokoloff, chapter 9, in The Shifters (The Keepers Series), Harlequin, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry aspirined
  • Speaking of glaring faults, howsabout Rio Ferdinand’s for starters?2009 October 14, Richard Kurt, “Fergie frenzy hides the faults”, in Irish Examiner. From the entry Partridgean
  • If you have an electric clock with a bright or blinking LED, switch to one with a less glaring display.2002, Nancy Butcher, 101 Ways to Fall Asleep, page 29. From the entry nonticking
  • From the other end Porter was glaring at them.1993, Michael Morpurgo, The War of Jenkins' Ear. From the entry new bug
  • The golden domes of churches and the freshly sanded paths in the town gardens were a glaring yellow.1958, Boris Pasternak, chapter 4, in Max Hayward, Manya Harari, transl., Doctor Zhivago, New York: Pantheon, page 96. From the entry sand
  • The glaring sunshine which at its take-off had shone squarely in its bow-ports, now poured down slantingly from behind.1953, Murray Leinster, Space Tug. From the entry slantingly
  • And the glaring, lying signs with them?1931 April 9, Frederick O’Brien, “On Paper Wings”, in J. A. Coughlin, editor, The Carmelite, volume 4, number 9, Carmel-by-the-Sea…. From the entry hotdoggery
  • "What's the game?" he cried, glaring round him.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no.…. From the entry sucker
  • The other glaring flaw in this disinfographic is that it accepts regulation of motor vehicles as if that’s consistent with individual Liberty — it’s not.2022 May 30, “Be an American worth dying for”, in Ubi Libertas. From the entry disinfographic
  • While the “content issue” in her campaign is a glaring one, this piece is not meant to be a hit job on Hillary.2021, Lucas Sharp, “Branding Hillary: 2016 and the Semiotics of Neoliberalism”, in The Baffler, number 57, page 24 of 24-35. From the entry hit job
  • It's a glaring example of how draconian laws are pulled out of thin air and arbitrarily enforced to punish the prominent opposition leader," he said.2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 06…. From the entry out of thin air
  • And later, Ross glaring into the camera, impatient with me, the Momarazzi—Enough with the pictures!—a string of pink taffy hanging out of his mouth.2017, Claudia Hunter Johnson, Hurtling Toward Happiness: A Mother and Teenage Son's Road Trip From Blues to Bonding in a Really Small Car…. From the entry momarazzi
  • The words were unneeded as a woman, bedoven in blood and screaming, stumbl'd out from the back of the lead truck into the glaring lights.2015, LT Wolf, The World King, ebook edition (fiction), →ISBN. From the entry bedoven
  • You're blind to the blue Pacific water and glaring sun as your entire face is buried in Sofia's bosom—you're motorboating on a motorboat!2013, "19 Most Lustable Celebs", VIBE, April/May 2013, page 84. From the entry motorboat
  • Rosanna marched into the front room, stopping smackdab in the center of the large braided rug, glaring at Kate with Eli at her breast.2008, Beverly Lewis, The Forbidden (The Courtship of Nellie Fisher Book #2), Bethany House, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry rutsch
  • Another glaring disparity was that the Indian Veterinarian was then forced to byheart the doses of medicines, meant for European cattle and other domestic animals.1967, N. B. Sen, Progress of education in free India. From the entry byheart
  • His cougarship was not pleased with the light, and immediately started for the open doorway, keeping his glaring eyes the while upon the lighted lamp.1903, A. Atwood, Glimpses in Pioneer Life on Puget Sound, page 222. From the entry cougarship
  • A shady promenade went the length of the street and the entrance to the hotel was a few steps back in the darkness, away from the glaring sunshine.2010, Luke Dixon, Khartoum, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry go
  • But evolutionary psychology, as it has been disseminated across mainstream consciousness, is a cranky and despotic Cyclops, its single eye glaring through an overwhelmingly masculinist lens.1999 March 19, Natalie Angier, The Guardian. From the entry masculinist
  • Rosalie was now standing directly over Rose B. in a glaring light that gave a lachrymal quality to the eyelash shadows spilling over flushedly exquisite cheekbones.1987 October, Michael Brodsky, Xman, New York, N.Y.: Four Walls Eight Windows, published March 1988 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 130. From the entry flushedly

Meaning of glaring

  1. adjective Reflecting with glare.
  2. adjective Blatant, obvious.
  3. adjective Garish.

Full definition of glaring

Questions about glaring in a sentence

How do you use glaring in a sentence?
Glaring is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!”
What is a short sentence with glaring?
“painted in glaring oranges and greens”
What does glaring mean?
Glaring means reflecting with glare.

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