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glen

[glen] / glɛn /


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"It's quite tough to see, it's not just the trees that are gone, all the wildlife in the glen has been devastated too," she said.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2025

The glen is a large area of thickly wooded hillsides and glens with a river, streams and lochs south of Inverness.

From BBC Dec. 14, 2024

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

The sides of the glen were shaggy with last year’s bracken, among which the tight-curled fronds of spring were just thrusting through the sweet-scented earth.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The annual Manx Wildlife Week aims to encourage people to connect with the island's countryside, glens, hills and sea, as well as the creatures and plants that inhabit them.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2026

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

Indeed, consumers may want their vehicles not only to look good in, say, a wooded glen, but also to project the very idea that they care about wooded glens.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 7, 2023

A short way beyond the way-meeting, after another steep incline, a flying bridge of stone leapt over the chasm and bore the road across into the tumbled slopes and glens of the Morgai.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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