glorious

Example Sentences

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Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that Brown would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

California the magnificent, California the glorious, was slipping away, disappearing into smog, covered over by concrete.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

"As female comedians, especially if you've been performing on stage, we just have to be so prepared and it's been glorious to watch her be so prepared even at this stage of her career."

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Every American kid “ought to understand how glorious the Bill of Rights is, and particularly the First Amendment. And we know that kids don’t know any of this.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Major Puff knows all about the glorious battles of the past, most involving the puffins’ wicked and vile enemy, the great black-backed gulls.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el