How to Use glee club in a Sentence

glee club

noun
  • After the band playing prom drops out, the glee club is asked to perform.
    Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 2 May 2024
  • Glee is a show about an imaginary glee club that doesn't really exist.
    Steve Marinucci, Billboard, 30 May 2018
  • Disloyalty, in the form of joining the glee club, is sedition.
    Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2021
  • Spanish teacher and glee club director on the beloved series.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The series followed an unlikely group of high schoolers who band together upon joining a glee club.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The class was taught by Kevin Johnson, who’s also the longtime director of the school’s legendary glee club.
    Deasia Paige, AJC.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But there’s going to be a lot of debating and campaigning from a field larger than a high-school glee club and without the saving grace of spangly outfits.
    Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2019
  • The second photo was one of Matthew Morrison, who played the glee club director Will Schuester.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
  • Clive hid the doorknobs; Aunt Janice is really Audrey’s nephew; and Doris murdered the glee club.
    Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Twenty years after the Polyphonic Spree released its debut album, the rock ‘n’ roll glee club shows no signs of wavering.
    Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Winslow conducted the glee club and several choirs at Wesleyan, and his Christmas concerts were popular events.
    Anne M. Hamilton, courant.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Rivera played Santana Lopez, a cheerleader and star glee club member, on the musical comedy Glee.
    Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2020
  • Her frenemy and former glee club teammate Santana Lopez (played by the late Naya Rivera) is also vying for the lead role.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 July 2022
  • Heitz was known for her brief but significant appearances on Glee as former glee club director Lillian Adler.
    Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The series about a ragtag group of high school misfits who battle the obstacles (and Sue Sylvester) to form a glee club turned its cast of then-unknowns into household names.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
  • Luke Merrick, a senior at the University of Virginia, sings in the glee club and recently spent a summer in Japan.
    Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The moment a bunch of unpopular kids and one hot quarterback formed a glee club and sang Journey to an empty auditorium was a cultural reset.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Carter said Deener was a typical 14-year-old, and news reports described her as a member of her middle school glee club who loved roller skating and harbored dreams of being a nun.
    Matthew Mosk, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2021
  • In addition to online support groups, Thrive SS has a senior men’s group, a glee club, a public speaking group, and a psychosocial support group.
    Keren Landman, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The series, which follows a group of high school misfits who form a glee club under the direction of an earnest teacher, made the musical cool again, selling countless iTunes singles and albums.
    James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The camp, comic, yet often tragic look at the disparate members of a high school glee club ran on Fox for six seasons, from 2009-2015.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Recreational activities were also traditionally segregated by race, from sports teams to glee clubs.
    Mitchel P. Roth, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2017
  • But the show from creator Ryan Murphy, about the ups and downs of a high school glee club, became a ratings juggernaut and thrust several formerly unknown actors into the spotlight.
    Time, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The episode is set at show choir sectionals, and our McKinley High School glee club is determined to shed their underdog status and finally win something.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 July 2022
  • Forcing the literal-minded heaviness of the Hollywood special-effects machine onto the earnest, put-on-a-show spirit of the musical is like asking the glee club to use auto-tune.
    Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2020
  • The candidates are four school song leaders who’ve formed a girl group and are performing at the 1958 prom because the glee club’s Billy Ray Patton got suspended for smoking behind the gym.
    David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Outside the half-hour laundromat Mary Ellen Deener was a typical 14-year-old – news reports described her as a member of her middle school glee club, who loved roller skating, and harbored dreams of being a nun.
    Matthew Mosk, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In the show, Michele played ambitious singer Rachel Berry, while McHale portrayed Artie Abrams, a film-loving student and key member of the New Directions glee club.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The show, which ran until 2015, centered on New Directions, the glee club at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio.
    Alan Light, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Famously passed over by American Idol producers, Amber Riley shows off her stellar pipes in the role of resident high school diva Mercedes Jones, always competing with Rachel Berry for the top spot in the glee club.
    James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026

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