glass
Example Sentences
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A scene in which Bill taps his glass eye with a knife was not some special effect.
Unlike the enforced calmness and walking pace associated with fire drills, we were encouraged to run, not walk, to our designated fallout area—all the while covering our faces to protect from flying glass.
The glass replicas of flowers are so delicate and precise that the narrator sees them “as organic one instant and as artificial the next.”
In most cases, elasticity only becomes relevant when a liquid is cooled below its "glass transition," the point where it begins to behave more like a solid.
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She knocked on the glass window and before you could say “Osiyo,” it slid open.
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