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How to use glen in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Glen means a secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale. Example: “Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands.”

Examples of glen by meaning

nounA secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.

  • In the glens of the hills about Strathsporran are many noble and nimble stags.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published...

More sentences with glen

  • Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands.From the entry ing
  • The name was probably derived from shaw, a woodly glen, and fleet, a running stream .1945, Margaret Birney Pittis, Pittis Genealogy, page 25. From the entry woodly
  • Glen, Ryan, care to work it out on the remix and combine your mass appeal for a megahit movie?2024 August 27, Dylan Kickham, “Glen Powell Isn't Here For This Comment Comparing Him & Ryan Gosling”, in Elite Daily. From the entry work it out on the remix
  • Glen Medeiros and Bobby Brown are on KDWB right now performing She Ain’t Worth It, and it is such a pick-me-up.2019, Cat Ellington, Memoirs in Gogyohka: A Book of Short Poems and Memoirs, Chicago, Ill.: Quill Pen Ink Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry pick-me-up
  • Glen “Hooping Cough” Hodges is proprietor and manager of Nine Chakras, the new retro gaming barcade in town.2019, Darren Johnson, Darren Johnson's Best Short Stories of 2018. From the entry barcade
  • How about a glen bong for you and your 'coon?1963 Sterling North, Rascal, Avon Books (softcover), p 100. From the entry coon
  • Glen had found his true religion and though some would call him a pedovore (a cannibal of children) he knew who answered his prayers.2020, Tina Helmuth, Yasha (Saved), page 92. From the entry pedovore
  • In my bairnhood I would often linger in the glens where they dwelt, to jeer at them.” “Truly, yours was a wild boyhood, Olvir.1905, Robert Ames Bennet, For the White Christ. From the entry bairnhood
  • Very desolate was that valley, having a dark aspect and a ghastful, such as a man might look for in the infernal glens of Pyriphlegethon or Acheron.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 174, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC. From the entry ghastful
  • More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21. From the entry bird's-eye maple

Meaning of glen

  1. noun A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.

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Questions about glen in a sentence

How do you use glen in a sentence?
Glen is used as a noun. For example: “Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands.”
What is a short sentence with glen?
“Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands.”
What does glen mean?
Glen means a secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.

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