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How to use glassy in a sentence

22 example sentences · adjective, noun

Glassy means of or like glass, especially in being smooth and somewhat reflective. Example: “It was blowing about 15 knots, which is considered fairly glassy for the west Coast.”

Examples of glassy by meaning

adjectiveOf or like glass, especially in being smooth and somewhat reflective.

  • a resin tabletop with a glassy polish

adjectiveLacking any chop; smooth and mostly flat.

  • a fair day on a glassy sea
  • It was blowing about 15 knots, which is considered fairly glassy for the west Coast.1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer

adjectiveExtensively glazed.

  • architecture enamored of glass and steel, where glassier meant classier
  • "We live in the glassiest house in the world with our reliance on information systems."2023 January 12, Tim Starks, with Aaron Schaffer, “Don't panic. It might not be a cyberattack. The Cybersecurity 202 newsletter.”, in...

adjectiveDull; expressionless; lifeless.

  • the glassy eyes of a person in a trance

nounA glass marble.

  • Then suddenly she ceased to hear, having caught sight of a glassie rolled into a corner.1915, D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 198

More sentences with glassy

  • The Fleet at rest was a glassy ædifice, smooth and unscaleable.2014, Nick Harkaway, Tigerman, Random House, page 329. From the entry ædifice
  • An adder stone is a type of stone, usually glassy, with a naturally occurring hole through it.2014, Mark Rogers, The Esoteric Codex: Magic Objects I, [Raleigh, N.C.]: Lulu Press, Inc., page 15. From the entry adder stone
  • A cellphone rang and he scrabbled for it with clumsy fingers, his eyes already a bit glassy.2014, Maya Fowler & Isobel Dixon (translation of Karin Brynard's Plaasmoord), Weeping Waters, page 636. From the entry sharp-sharp
  • A delicious mix of glassy sweets that you could suck for hours.2014, Julie Shaw, In Cold Blood: A Brother's Sworn Vengeance. From the entry Yorkshire mixture
  • They either consist of (usually fine-grained) rock and mineral fragments or are of glassy consistency.2006, Alessandro Montanari, Christian Koeberl, Impact Stratigraphy: The Italian Record, Springer, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry ejecta
  • Her limbs were rigid, her eyes glassy; what had Jerry been doing?1915, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age. From the entry deadest
  • Your eyeballs feel glassy, your brain parched and limbs sluggish.2021 February 17, Jenna Wortham, “The Rise of the Wellness App”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2023. From the entry hit different
  • In younger deposits, irregular patches of black fresh glassy sideromelane occur as “islands" coated by brownish palagonite envelopes of varying thickness.2012, Richard V. Fisher, Pyroclastic Rocks. From the entry sideromelane
  • Where the plastic had been peeled back, a hunk had already been removed, revealing the glassy green inside of the block.2006, Jennifer Kirk, Countdown to Extinction. From the entry that's the bunny
  • Explosive cooling and the sedimentation of glassy fragments results in a rock with a characteristic speckly texture known as hyaloclastite.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 45. From the entry hyaloclastite
  • Her touch was inhuman, cold and glassy like a porcelain doll, but after her initial flinch Fancy relaxed into her grandcestor's embrace.2011, Dia Reeves, Slice of Cherry, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry grandcestor
  • At that very moment on this recent Friday night, though, it was a roasted branzino with glassy eyes that was ogling her.2007 February 18, Monica Corcoran, “Strike Up the Turntable”, in New York Times. From the entry branzino
  • Glance up while strolling through parts of downtown Hong Kong and, chances are, you’ll notice the glassy black lens of a surveillance camera trained on the city’s crowded streets.2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung, “Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is…. From the entry surveillance camera
  • The virgin is released from the mucoid swamp by a water-nymph from under “the glassy cool, translucent wave,” an Apollonian realm of purity, clarity, and vision.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry mucoid
  • Its cogenerator at One Bryant Park, a glassy 54-story skyscraper rising at the corner of 42nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas, is scheduled to come online this summer.2009 February 25, Alec Appelbaum, “Towers in Manhattan Gather Heat for Power”, in New York Times. From the entry cogenerator

Meaning of glassy

  1. adjective Of or like glass, especially in being smooth and somewhat reflective.
  2. adjective Lacking any chop; smooth and mostly flat.
  3. adjective Including a lot of glass.

Full definition of glassy

Questions about glassy in a sentence

How do you use glassy in a sentence?
Glassy is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “It was blowing about 15 knots, which is considered fairly glassy for the west Coast.”
What is a short sentence with glassy?
“a fair day on a glassy sea”
What does glassy mean?
Glassy means of or like glass, especially in being smooth and somewhat reflective.

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