glaze

In some ways, high school looks much the same as it did 20, even 100 years ago: sleepy eyes either light up or glaze over when a teacher poses a Socratic question.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

His challenging Queen Mab speech, which can glaze the eyes, here is delivered with delectable playfulness, as Mercutio sports almost flirtatiously with Romeo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

"They'd ask what school I'd gone to when I replied, 'you know, just like the local comprehensive,' their eyes would just sort of glaze over."

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

But that dinner, more than anything else, adds a hardened glaze of insult to Megan’s allegation that Thompson cheated on her.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026

When I got through that, Ruthanne brought out a slab of ham lacquered with honey glaze.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

Places where glazes gleam like car paint, espumas suspend among dough sheets, croissants of a million layers.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026

He also decided to create more meaningful memorials—by incorporating cremated ashes into pottery glazes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

“I was blown away by her incredible sense of design, how she uses a very tiny brush to make little lines that keep the glazes separated, similar to the look of cloisonné,” Gulbran says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024

He leaves the surfaces simple, without colorful glazes or decoration.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024

She glazes over things she considers mundane, the traveling and the train, though Marco is certain they cannot be moving solely by train.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

I just know they’re the type of people who love a good board game — one with rules that take a half-hour to explain, by which time their guests’ eyes have glazed over.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Chisora, partly outside of the ropes, beat the count at eight, eyes glazed, as Wilder stalked forward.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026

Nichols’s large donation of ceramics to the museum included an Izumo ware teapot glazed in the creamy buttermilk hue that distinguishes its type.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

We tried many plates, but the star of the night was the Cá Chiên Nước Mắm: a whole-fried, deboned bronzino glazed in sweet fish sauce.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025

Man and horse were down; they had slipped on the sheet of ice which glazed the causeway.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Burry has been an outspoken critic of the stock market’s AI mania, saying that investors are getting ahead of themselves and glazing over risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

To describe the phenomenon, he used the slang word "glazing" -- to excessively praise something.

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

So they had to test out different processes of glazing in order to make the tone and texture match the old tiles as closely as possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

“Please don’t be glazing me here, Zohran,” he said, borrowing some Gen Alpha slang as the candidates, and audience, laughed riotously.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025

I can see kids’ eyes glazing over; Sophie and her crew are inching toward the door.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman