glory

Mark Pelesh, a retired attorney who lives in Chevy Chase, Md., recalls how the Washington Redskins’ glory years in the 1980s and early 1990s brought the region to a standstill every Sunday afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

With Argentina, England, France and Spain just two games from glory, we compare how the four semi-finalists have performed so far to get an idea of who could lift the World Cup this weekend.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

But, just as following his devastating loss to Alcaraz in their epic French Open final last year, Sinner has again responded to adversity to stand on the brink of glory.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Brad Pitt is a grizzled racing driver burdened by his past who helps lead a struggling Formula One team to glory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

I slide out a black metal case and crack it open, revealing, in all its glory, my silver forty-five caliber Ruger LCP pistol.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

He also won over Liverpool's biggest names who had under-pinned the Klopp glories of winning the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and two League Cups.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

From her earliest years, Emily thrilled to the austere glories of the landscape, with its great desolate stretches of rocky turf and rushing waterways all shaped and pummeled by winds that whistled and “wuthered.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Instead, what I heard too many of the candidates evoke was the glories of the past — their past.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

Ratcliffe has so far done little to suggest he can deliver on his desire to restore a club he admitted "has become mediocre" to former glories.

From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026

There’s a high ceiling, with lights shaped like morning glories hanging down on chains, and a plain gold cross up at the front with a vase of white flowers.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

And still, people kept going back to try their luck, men who gloried in nicknames such as Twitchlip Kelly and Two-Gun Don Rosenkrantz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025

"I think the critics are looking backwards to a gloried past, and fail to see the strategic picture vis a vis China and technology in a really disappointing way," he says.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2023

Over the last few years, the teams of the Premier League — alongside a cadre of continental superclubs — have gloried in recruiting as many of the best players on the planet as possible.

From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

As D.C. suffered and then gloried in a few winning teams, Tom spoke for the fans, always.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2021

Instead of hating the feeling, I gloried in it.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

The absurdity of glorying in such minor athletic triumphs has never been captured more lovingly and amusingly than in a special released this year by Kenny DeForest.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

Ed. note: I will be on vacation next week, glorying in the delights of the 35th state so we will have to leave the mailbag aside for a while.

From Fox News ● Jul. 26, 2019

I had waltzed through the Gare du Nord, having persuaded myself to be imprudent, glorying in my encounter with the Other, and while I was so glorying, the Other had taken my phone.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2015

She ventures into the realm of unembarrassed feeling, letting her voice curl upward to the limit of her register, glorying in the sound and the momentum of her words as much as in their meaning.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 15, 2015

Theresa gave an encore; the family leaned over the rail like operagoers, glorying in the sound.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen