How to Use glory in a Sentence

glory

1 of 2 noun
  • The glory of the town is its fountain.
  • The beautiful art reminds us of the glory of the empire.
  • Let us give glory to God.
  • He now has only a few trophies to remind him of the glory of his athletic career.
  • The new owners are trying to restore the company to its former glory.
  • As a young soldier he dreamed of winning military glory.
  • Sports fans are in their glory.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • She was meant to go out in a blaze of glory.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
  • May some nugget help guide you to glory.
    Stan Son, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • This is no road-to-glory sports movie.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Bridges didn’t take this time to bask in his glory.
    James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Here’s the full save again, in all of its glory.
    Jesse Granger, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Sky has had to go through it alone to get back a shot at glory.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
  • The glory days are back in Foxboro.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The glory of the self had taken over.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Even the worst teams have their moments of glory.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2026
  • All for a chance to draft into glory.
    Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The fall colors lit the trail with glory.
    Anton Money, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Living on the juice of past glory.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Check him out in all his gluttonous glory.
    Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For your fights, your moments of glory, your grit.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Then, of course, there was the moon itself in all its cratered glory.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026
  • And we, just like anyone else, could and should be seen in our glory.
    Anya Sesay, jsonline.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Now, with Napoli on the edge of glory, the crowds have swelled even more.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Pasta shouldn’t get all the glory.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Apr. 2026
  • For that, the scores are reset, and each of the six gets one jump for glory.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Mine eyes have see the glory of the coming of the Lord.
    Jim Williams, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • God, in the name of Jesus, gives all the glory.
    Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Stand in glory and demand your worth in all areas of your life.
    ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Get it and set yourself on a path to gaming glory.
    Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026

glory

2 of 2 verb
  • There was femininity, gloried in and defined multiple ways via dress.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Courts have affirmed it and Congress has substantially gloried in its role as an overpaid Rotary Club.
    Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • The other orchestral choirs were far from neglected, however, and the Shostakovich gloried in robust brass playing.
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • We were not made great as a country by indulging or even exalting our worst impulses, turning against ourselves, glorying in the things which divide us, and calling fake things true and true things fake.
    latimes.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Ambitions appeared to be thwarted for so long by a culture of entitlement as England gloried in the hype and status of being the birthplace of soccer without backing it up with results.
    Rob Harris, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2018
  • Or did the notions that fed the circus die off in a nation that once gloried in the reach of empire, with strange creatures on display to certify Western Man's dominion over Earth?
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
  • On Truth We were not made great as a country by indulging or even exalting our worst impulses, turning against ourselves, glorying in the things which divide us, and calling fake things true and true things fake.
    Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2017
  • And no entity on the planet does a better job, whether directly or indirectly, of glorying these killers, and thereby providing the inspiration for the next one, than our mainstream media.
    Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 24 May 2018

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