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[glen] / glɛn /


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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

Rosie was pulled up to a stretcher, from where she could be carried down the glen to an ambulance.

From BBC Feb. 2, 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

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

And so they came at last deep into the glen; and there stood a sheer wall of rock, and in the wall the Dark Door gaped before them like the mouth of night.

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

Below Backwater, at the foot of the Angus glens, lies the little town of Kirriemuir - best known as the birthplace of Peter Pan's creator, JM Barrie.

From BBC Aug. 25, 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

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

"Temperatures could get down to -10°C in sheltered glens, or across high ground areas of Scotland where there is lying snow," the Met Office said.

From BBC Jan. 15, 2023

There were no natural glens in all of Bakersfield.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan




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