glaze
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If you’re like me, talk of bonds, yields, and buybacks makes your eyes glaze over.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The company manufactures its own equipment to shape, bake and glaze the shiny pastries it sells across more than 40 countries, and relies on relatively few workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
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
"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
His skin seemed to harden and glaze over, and his eyes became unforgiving marble orbs.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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
Having a home studio has made it easier for Lee to experiment with pottery glazes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
He leaves the surfaces simple, without colorful glazes or decoration.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
No one is behind the counter when Mabel and I walk in, but the store is warm and bright, full of earth tones and tinted glazes.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
Menu offerings include appetizers such as Dungeness crab cakes and lobster corn dogs, and entrées such as crispy chicken Milanese, honey miso glazed salmon and a signature Skywalker Ranch Wagyu burger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
For dessert, Proust's beloved madeleines and mirabelles jostled for attention with distinctly American-accented glazed doughnuts.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Like the large so-called moon jar that opens the exhibition, these capacious bowls glazed in eggshell white flaunt their foibles with wobbling edges that give character to otherwise pure forms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Chisora, partly outside of the ropes, beat the count at eight, eyes glazed, as Wilder stalked forward.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
If it grows intense enough they can become glazed and paralyzed by it—“tharn,” to use their own word.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Allow me to say this: Your eyes are glazing over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Daniel Rickman, who runs glazing business Structura, decided not to wait for individuals to ask for adjustments - but instead offer them to all staff.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
To describe the phenomenon, he used the slang word "glazing" -- to excessively praise something.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
Museums had only just started succeeding against soup-throwing protesters by adding protective glazing or panes of glass to protect their iconic artworks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
He shook his head, eyes glazing over again.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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