How to Use glut in a Sentence

glut

1 of 2 verb
  • The weekend — glutted with prison lock-up shows — is another test.
    David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Batuman is wonderful on the joy of glutting oneself on books.
    Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Because the market is glutted, all buyers can demand purity standards at or near the level China has set.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The current milk landscape is glutted with options, but only because nobody is happy.
    Rachel Sugar, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
  • When the shale drilling revolution glutted the market with natural gas beginning in 2008, an abundance of power plants were already on hand to put it to use.
    Jonathan Thompson, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The nation’s courtrooms have been glutted with millions of collection lawsuits, many of which are backed by thin documentation.
    Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 28 July 2016
  • Because global oil and gas markets are already glutted, moves by the Trump administration to boost drilling and exports can only play a marginal role.
    Georgi Kantchev and Lynn Cook, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • And in a third poster, featuring Captain America solo, Evans is twisted in a pose that exposes America’s glutes to full effect.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 June 2019
  • Launching a new luxury condo tower at a time when the market is glutted with unsold inventory might seem like risky business.
    Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 6 Mar. 2018
  • With oil prices around $50 a barrel and production already glutting world markets, few oil companies are making plans to expand into costlier, riskier offshore drilling.
    Coral Davenport, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2017
  • With so many new cars rolling out of dealerships lots and instantly becoming used cars, the secondary market is glutted and the pace of depreciation is rapidly accelerating.
    Kyle Stock, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Its home market is glutted by excess manufacturing and construction capacity created through decades of subsidies and runaway lending.
    Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
  • The weekend — glutted with prison lock-up shows — is another test.
    David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Batuman is wonderful on the joy of glutting oneself on books.
    Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Because the market is glutted, all buyers can demand purity standards at or near the level China has set.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The current milk landscape is glutted with options, but only because nobody is happy.
    Rachel Sugar, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
  • When the shale drilling revolution glutted the market with natural gas beginning in 2008, an abundance of power plants were already on hand to put it to use.
    Jonathan Thompson, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The nation’s courtrooms have been glutted with millions of collection lawsuits, many of which are backed by thin documentation.
    Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 28 July 2016
  • Because global oil and gas markets are already glutted, moves by the Trump administration to boost drilling and exports can only play a marginal role.
    Georgi Kantchev and Lynn Cook, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • And in a third poster, featuring Captain America solo, Evans is twisted in a pose that exposes America’s glutes to full effect.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 June 2019
  • Launching a new luxury condo tower at a time when the market is glutted with unsold inventory might seem like risky business.
    Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 6 Mar. 2018
  • With oil prices around $50 a barrel and production already glutting world markets, few oil companies are making plans to expand into costlier, riskier offshore drilling.
    Coral Davenport, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2017
  • With so many new cars rolling out of dealerships lots and instantly becoming used cars, the secondary market is glutted and the pace of depreciation is rapidly accelerating.
    Kyle Stock, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Its home market is glutted by excess manufacturing and construction capacity created through decades of subsidies and runaway lending.
    Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
  • The weekend — glutted with prison lock-up shows — is another test.
    David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Batuman is wonderful on the joy of glutting oneself on books.
    Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Because the market is glutted, all buyers can demand purity standards at or near the level China has set.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The current milk landscape is glutted with options, but only because nobody is happy.
    Rachel Sugar, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
  • When the shale drilling revolution glutted the market with natural gas beginning in 2008, an abundance of power plants were already on hand to put it to use.
    Jonathan Thompson, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The nation’s courtrooms have been glutted with millions of collection lawsuits, many of which are backed by thin documentation.
    Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 28 July 2016
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glut

2 of 2 noun
  • But the mass layoffs that started in 2022 have now led to a glut of talent on the market.
    Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2024
  • That could mean a glut of cheap, low-yielding debt with few buyers.
    Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The growing glut of office space isn’t just a D-FW problem.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
  • There’s a glut of players in the secondary and little depth in the offensive line.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Many homebuilders were scarred by the Great Recession, when a glut of homes on the market crashed prices.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
  • And then, of course, there are the other co-working competitors and the glut of sublease space out there.
    Curbed, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Two, apparently there was a glut of capsicum out in the world.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The result is a glut of new apartments that could cripple the economy.
    Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That boosted supply and even caused a brief glut of beef at the grocery store, but 2023 may not look the same once the full toll of last year’s drought kicks in.
    Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
  • That’s a downfall for the current glut of social-justice docs.
    Armond White, National Review, 23 June 2023
  • Given the glut, stockpiled items are selling for bargain prices, if at all.
    Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Nowhere is the furniture glut stronger than in San Francisco.
    Erin Griffith, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
  • That led to a glut of chips right as customers started cutting orders.
    Bylionel Lim, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Then in the final year of the decade, that changed, and a glut of anxious men arrived, kvetching, quipping and dating shiksas.
    Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The waitlist woes are one of several reasons for the glut of vacancies.
    Todd Wallack, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The scramble for chips has turned into a glut at an inconvenient time.
    Jacky Wong, wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In an attempt to make their wares stand out among the glut, some platforms simply spent more money on them with mixed results.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 6 June 2023
  • But when that demand faded, a glut of supply plagued the industry.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2024
  • This year, a glut of solar equipment in the market and project delays have roiled the entire solar sector.
    WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Amid the glut of uber-fancy restaurants, what are the standouts and what about the everyman and everywoman?
    Amanda Faison, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The change is under way, as a glut of synthetic media is tripping up search engines such as Google.
    Nathaniel Lubin, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • There had been famous and adulterous couples before, but not in wide-screen, and not with the glut and the glare that came to be so pronounced in the case of Burton and Taylor.
    Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But people sometimes struggle to go directly from the boozy glut of the holidays to 31 days without a drink.
    Dani Blum, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • By the turn of the millennium, a focus on patients’ pain spiraled into a glut of pills — the first wave of the U.S. opioid epidemic.
    Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Office space surplus Less demand for office space will lead to an even further glut.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The glut has left people wanting to work through that excess of special bottles, and that includes toting those wines with them to restaurants.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2024
  • There is a glut of avocados in America and that’s triggered a steep drop in wholesale prices.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Consumers are exhausted by the glut of streaming services to pay for and the lack of high-quality original movies and shows.
    Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • There is little about you today that isn’t available online, and the glut of information can go back decades.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The glut of bland behind-the-scenes documentaries like Drive to Survive are just another symptom of the same disease.
    Amit Katwala, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2022

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