GLORY in a Sentence

Learn GLORY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
158 example sentences for GLORY, such as:
1. No road of flowers lead to glory.
2. Not for honor and glory, certainly.
3. The path to glory is always rugged.
4. Vain glory blossoms but never bears.
5. She wanted to enjoy her moment of glory.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GLORY
glory
 v.  rejoice proudly
 n.  an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
Classic Sentence: (137 in 10 pages)
1  Already the plowing was nearly finished, and the bloody glory of the sunset colored the fresh-cut furrows of red Georgia clay to even redder hues.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Of course, a girl wanted her own wedding--not shared glory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The unfortunate boy had not only been cheated of the love he thought he had won but also of his high hopes of honor and glory on the field of battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Not for honor and glory, certainly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  And that is why I'm here who have no love of death or misery or glory and no hatred for anyone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  And he wore these garments with a still more elegant air as though unaware of their glory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  She had a Christmas present for Ashley, but it paled in insignificance beside the glory of Melanie's gray coat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  This, then, was what Ashley had meant when he wrote that war was not glory but dirt and misery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  The Lost Cause was stronger, dearer now in their hearts than it had ever been at the height of its glory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
10  But he was prompt to perceive that the general dulness of the season afforded him an unusual opportunity to shine, and he set about with patient industry to form a background for his growing glory.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
11  But now the flood was shot through with glory, and it was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
12  But Kennicott, through rain-blurred lashes, caught the glory that was Back Home.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Then, glory of glories, the town put in a White Way.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
15  There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  The path to glory is always rugged.
2  The regiment covered itself with glory in the invasion battle.
3  There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.
4  Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
5  Their defeat redounds to the glory of those whom they attacked.
6  Better to die in glory than live in dishonour.
7  She wanted to enjoy her moment of glory.
8  This beautiful old building has been restored to its former glory.
9  The house has now been restored to its former glory.
10  No road of flowers lead to glory.
11  Vain glory blossoms but never bears.
12  They are driven by a craving for personal glory.
13  Then comes the crowning glory of Frank's act, as he peels off his raincoat to reveal a smart suit underneath.
14  Being knighted by the Queen was the crowning glory of his long and successful career.
15  All I need add is that, whatever its quality, your story will be received in favour of the glory of literature.