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[glen] / glɛn /


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The chalet and glen continued to be popular with both tourists and locals and the building was used as a lodge and cafe for many years as part of the treasured national glen.

From BBC Apr. 7, 2026

Each non-Pee-wee appearance required the audience to recalibrate our expectations and remove Reubens from the glen plaid suits and pomade-slicked hairdo for which we came to know him.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2023

In a leafy glen in a very small, beautiful moment, the trees watched too.

From Salon Oct. 8, 2022

As the wind and rain batters them, many of the group ponder Lady Evelyn's final journey up the glen to her chosen burial spot.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2022

It was long and oval, shaped like a great spear-head thrust deep into the northern glen; but its southern end was beyond the shadows under the sunlit sky.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

There will likely be no vistas of forest canopy, no shaded glens with water cascading through a tapestry of conifers, pine sap spicing the morning air.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 28, 2025

But the organisation said finding meteorites would be difficult in a vast area of mountains and glens.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2025

Although most of the park fills up daily with birthday parties, off-leash dogs, and brass bands, it’s also home to a network of shady glens, murmuring creeks, and still ponds.

From Slate Aug. 31, 2023

It re-shaped the map of the Highlands with vast hydro schemes, which brought power and people into the Highland glens, much of that in the 1950s.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2023

She’d never forget the stories about Oakwald Forest, legends of dark, terrible glens and deep, still pools, and caves full of light and heavenly singing.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas




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