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How to use glut in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Glut means an excess, too much. Example: “A glut might dim the outlook for grain futures.”

Examples of glut by meaning

nounAn excess, too much.

  • a glut of the market
  • Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 – 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport
  • “The glut is getting bigger every day, and now you’re starting to have to compete more on price,” says Jim Mikesell, Dog Star’s CEO.2020 April 23, Aarian Marshall, “Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk, Even as People Go Hungry”, in Wired

nounFive goals scored by one player in a game.

  • Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal

verbTo fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.

  • to glut one's appetite

More sentences with glut

  • A glut might dim the outlook for grain futures.From the entry dim
  • The glut of moronic, Roganesque dude-bro podcasts are long overdue for mocking, but this one is toothless.2024 November 17, Zach Vasquez, “Saturday Night Live: Charli xcx has fun in otherwise middle of the road episode”, in The Guardian, →ISSN…. From the entry toothless
  • Some thrift shops, glutted with flimsy, synthetic wares, have stopped accepting fast-fashion donations.2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic. From the entry thrift shop
  • “Here are those dots,” Johnston said about the glut of Trumpiana that is already out there.2016 August 12, Jennifer Szalai, “Inside the List”, in The New York Times. From the entry Trumpiana
  • Is it just me, or is there an absolute glut of rock festivals these days?2004, New Statesman. From the entry festie
  • This small paperback book is a veritable tardis of tips on how to preserve the harvest glut.1999, The Organic Way, numbers 157-174, page 53. From the entry tardis
  • Funny, I have gone as low as 16 land and my deck still had huge problems with mana glut.1998 May 31, Broccoli! [username], “Re: Why Sage owl is better than that Janky Impulse”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet). From the entry mana glut
  • Because he knows how to design his deck to avoid mana screw (or the opposite and usually equally deadly mana glut).1997 May 22, Johnny Ace, “Re: My mana screw proposal: a defense”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet). From the entry mana screw
  • Sham Shui Po might be one of Hong Kong’s poorest neighbourhoods but it has a rich immigrant history and a glut of fantastic street-food joints.2021 August 18, Lee Cobaj, “Best things to do in Hong Kong”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2021. From the entry joint
  • From an Internetter of 15 years, reflections on cyberspace as an illusory nonplace and on the addictive glut of unnecessary online information.2001, Marcia Yudkin, Internet Marketing for Less Than $500/Year. From the entry internetter
  • We always, it seems, are provided with a glut of material on the next big thing and not enough on how to make the last big thing actually work.2009, Alec Sharp, Patrick McDermott, Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Applications Development, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry last big thing
  • Little wonder, then, that there has been a glut of books published about libraries lately, many of them displaying a tendency that may be described as nostalgic-fetishistic.2009 May 6, Melinda Harvey, “War on books”, in The Australian, Sydney, N.S.W.: Nationwide News Pty Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5. From the entry bibliothecarian
  • Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194. From the entry greed

Meaning of glut

  1. noun An excess, too much.
  2. noun That which is swallowed.
  3. noun Something that fills up an opening.

Full definition of glut

Questions about glut in a sentence

How do you use glut in a sentence?
Glut is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A glut might dim the outlook for grain futures.”
What is a short sentence with glut?
“to glut one's appetite”
What does glut mean?
Glut means an excess, too much.

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