GLORIOUS in a Sentence

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67 example sentences for GLORIOUS, such as:

1. Our country has a glorious past.
2. For glorious rose upon my sight.
3. The film looks back at Spain's glorious past.
4. Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
5. Few remnants remain of the city's glorious past.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLORIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
glorious
 a.  having or deserving glory; famous; characterized by great beauty and splendor; magnificent; wonderful
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  They'll think it was wonderful and glorious to fight the Yankees and come home blind and crippled--or not come home at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
2  It was a glorious spree for the gang which had Georgia by the throat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  "It's a glorious country; a land to be big in," she crooned.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  That night she ate prodigiously of steak and fried potatoes; she produced electric sparks by touching his ear with her finger-tip; she slept twelve hours; and awoke to think how glorious was this brave land.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  I looked at the grand and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
6  All the years that have passed have not dimmed my memory of that first glorious autumn.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
7  It so far deepened the stain which a previous and very similar event had left upon the reputation of the French commander that it was not entirely erased by his early and glorious death.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
8  It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of freedom.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  He cried out bitterly that their crowns were stolen and their robes of glorious memories were shams.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  Then drawing his child on his knee, he gazed intently on his glorious dark eyes, and passed his hands through his long curls.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  Beth had a rapture with her mother, and then rushed up to impart the glorious news to her family of invalids, as the girls were not home.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIX
12  I promised to do so, but left the door open and enjoyed the fun as much as they did, for a more glorious frolic I never witnessed.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
13  She showed him her ball book with demure satisfaction when he strolled instead of rushed up to claim her for the next, a glorious polka redowa.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
14  It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the cliffs of Albion.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  For glorious rose upon my sight.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
2  The film looks back at Spain's glorious past.
3  A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure will turn to glorious success.
4  Our country has a glorious past.
5  You can create something more glorious than the championship.
6  Lu Xun will be for ever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new Chinese cultural movement.
7  The evening was a lavish affair with glorious food and an endless supply of champagne.
8  Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
9  Few remnants remain of the city's glorious past.
10  She had missed the glorious blooms of the Mediterranean spring.
11  Hopefully this artwork will be in glorious black and white, as it originally appeared.
12  While all the adults were commenting how glorious the emperor looked in his resplendent new clothes, one little boy was heard to say, "But he's naked!".
13  It seemed glorious sport to be feasting in that wild, free way in the virgin forest of an unexplored and uninhabited island, far from the haunts of men, and they said they never would return to civilization.
14  But the mission was successful, gloriously successful.