glass
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As she spends more time in the house she develops a sense of responsibility for the boy, who seems helplessly marooned in the haunted space, “trapped like a wasp in a glass bottle.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
A glass of lemon-wedge water for me; my date, however, found the beverage menu deeply intriguing, ordering Glenlivet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The bedroom also overlooks the backyard, while the adjoining bathroom features Italian blue glass tile, giving the space a spa-inspired appearance.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Sweet carefully transfers the delicate tissue onto a glass slide, where selected cellular structures are stained to make them easier to distinguish under a powerful microscope.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
I held it up to the light, trying to see how much was left, but the dark brown glass was too thick to see through.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Look for new suites with plush padding, longer lie-flat beds and nifty touches like a hook for your glasses, plus a revamped food and alcohol menu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
On the morning Holmes is due to report to prison, Fielder arrives with a parting gag gift: hair dye and glasses, in case she’d prefer to disguise herself and flee the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The regulator said if people use the glasses to share a photo or video on a public social media account or in official or professional activities, they must adhere to those rules.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
He was dressed in a grey suit with a black shirt and black glasses.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Camille squeezes her laptop between glasses of water and lemonade right as the waitress arrives at our table.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Wearing a plain khaki T-shirt and round-rimmed glassed, Griner was ushered a courtroom by police at Khimki District Court outside Moscow, Griner held up personal photographs before taking a seat in the defendant's cage.
From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2022
"They were nearly glassed over, but the sound is too important," the airline said in 2016.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2020
Tickets are sold at a tiny glassed booth.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2013
He shouldered his rifle and glassed the intersection.
From Slate ● May 2, 2012
When they came back to the study after dinner, his father closed the door—something he hardly ever did—and reached for a volume in the glassed case behind his desk.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Rubbert was by himself on the face of a cliff in Glacier glassing for grizzlies when a sow grizzly and her cub suddenly appeared.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 7, 2018
I did bricklaying, fibre glassing, I was a nanny, drove those rickshaw things, worked in a sandwich store – anything to get me from one place to the next.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2012
Andy Carroll is £3,500 lighter in the pocket after pleading guilty to accidentally glassing Michael Cook in a trendy Newcastle nightspot.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2010
If you did any preseason glassing for feeding bucks, you might have noticed does feeding in distinctly separate areas.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked at Jam, his eyes glassing over with tears.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
Vocabulary lists containing glass
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