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

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

Pictures published by the regional prosecutor show smashed market kiosks strewn with metal, glass and food.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 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

I opened the glass face, moved the hands to agree with my wristwatch, and slowly drew up the weights.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom