glass

Example Sentences

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Families in Tehran are taping up their windows and sleeping together in rooms away from the glass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Harrison said as well as food, they had a variety of other offerings, including from "a lady who goes to the beach every day to collect sea glass, she turns them into jewellery".

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

While light slows by about 1.5 times in glass and roughly 3.5 times in silicon or gallium arsenide, it slows by about 4.5 times in MoSe2.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

AFP journalists saw devotees deliberately puncturing their skin with glass shards attached to a small wooden paddle to ensure their bleeding during the ritual, a way to atone for sins and seek miracles from God.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The liquid in the glass beaker on the kitchen stove was a muddy, sullen black.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom