How to Use glower in a Sentence

glower

1 of 2 verb

• The librarian glowered at us when she heard us laughing.
• The girl looks at her mother glowering in the doorway.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
• Joe, glowering, stalks off through the crowd, clambers into his vehicle, and drives off.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
• Someone’s ancestors, perhaps his wife’s, glowered down at us from heavy golden frames.
  — Daisy Rockwell, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2025
• The plot takes a twist or two, but serves mainly as a thread linking shootouts and glowering confrontations, with a brief respite for love.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
• Bukovsky glowered at the agents, whose predecessors had tormented him so.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 June 2023
• Meanwhile, our critical eyes see the front end as assertive but not glowering madly.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2020
• Finally, the waiter, a big man with burly arms and a white apron, leaned over the counter and, propped up on his knuckles, glowered at the young man.
  — Azi Paybarah, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
• The eagerness of so many to claim Thunberg as their glowering proxy was curious.
  — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• Two dark towers have risen over the skyline, glowering at each other across the East River.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Aug. 2023
• The North Korean team glowered at their opponents, as if about to assault them.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• And even when von Sydow glowered, as many of his roles required him to do, the expansiveness of his spirit always showed through.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Mar. 2020
• Dennis is meanwhile back at home, probably glowering, knowing again how this story ends.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 May 2026
• So too did its coach Mark Dantonio, who glowered as his team suffered a third-straight loss by a margin of at least three touchdowns.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2019
• Levin, typically springy, glowered as Wolf told them about how the shutdown had devastated her life.
  — Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
• Mark is convinced that one of the Harga men, who’s glowering at him across the way, is going to kill him for pissing on the ancestral tree.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 3 July 2019
• Trager’s Preysing shows us the glowering man of appetites suppressed beneath the successful-man-of-business mien.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Crowe does his level best, but the Oscar-winning actor is fighting through layers of silicone to even smile, glower or laugh.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 28 June 2019
• Trump glowered in his dark suit and peculiarly long red tie, taking the oath, speechifying, signing documents.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 22 Jan. 2017
• Ellis has a switch that takes him from smiling nice guy to glowering gamer with an intensity that causes teammates to tease him about it — and also steer clear at times.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2018
• At seventy-nine, the commander in chief looked awful, his jowly, glowering face more tired and orange than ever, his porcine eyes extra puffy.
  — Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• When a reporter asked organizers about the possibility of rain, the response was glowering stares.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 27 June 2019
• Looming behind them is a group of bearded, glowering militants, dressed in tunics and turbans, some holding assault rifles.
  — T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
• Meanwhile, the White House has loaned the museum the Torok photograph, which shows Trump glowering over his desk.
  — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
• Meanwhile, friends stopped calling; wives accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle glowered and complained; children shrank away in confusion.
  — Helen Epstein, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
• According to the New York Daily News, Frazier glowered.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
• The actor has displayed a surprising comic flair on numerous occasions, but his glum, glowering performance here leaves a central void.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2020
• Gonio’s robust baritone and glowering ferocity fit the role perfectly.
  — Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2017
• As Ali recounted his professional past, Williams sat at the defense table, fingers laced in his lap, glowering in the direction of his onetime friend.
  — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 22 June 2017
• In the photo Chris and Baughn are smiling gamely, and DeLogé is mugging, crossing her arms and glowering like a bank robber in a mug shot.
  — Vauhini Vara, WIRED, 23 May 2017

glower

2 of 2 noun

• Tedros, blank-eyed and high as a kite, glowers as his pet project seems to be reclaiming her life.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
• The next great glower won’t be found unless someone is willing to look.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2021
• In the audience, Hudson crosses his arms and glowers like Ressler on a bad day.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 2 June 2023
• Chazz Palminteri plays Patriarca, with his hooded eyes and glower.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2019
• When Aaron spins Zoey around on the dance floor, Luca glowers in the corner with a bottle of champagne.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Delevingne is given little more to do than pout, glower and punch Clive Owen repeatedly.
  — Jillian Selzer, Cosmopolitan, 24 July 2017
• The glower Gregg Popovich gave him could have melted butter in a Minnesota winter.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2021
• As the detectives leave, Franka Potente's character walks in and glowers in close-up.
  — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
• Meanwhile, the eyes in between are capable of widening in pure glee or narrowing into a coy, sinister glower, depending on what’s asked of them.
  — Caroline Framke, Vox, 23 Mar. 2018
• Isabelle Fuhrman infuses Dall with an ambiguous glower of ambition that’s scary and human.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Dec. 2021
• The standout action sequence takes place at an underworld social club where all the gangsters wear crisp black suits and glower in front of white rice-paper walls that double as panels in a comic book.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
• The husband and father, Markus, is played by the great Mads Mikkelsen, barely recognizable behind a graying beard and lethal glower.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 13 May 2021
• The cop, Rana (played with a perpetual glower by Sikandar Kher), is also the man who destroyed Kid’s village.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
• As the two women argue over which one of them should ascend to a higher position of power, Russell provides Wyler with a put-upon weariness that matches her glower.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
• The glower, it must be said, has a precedent in the arrest photograph of Hermann Göring, the president of the Nazi Reichstag.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• Far from welcoming you in, the Elbphilharmonie glowers imperiously, as if prepared to repel a sneak attack on the Hanseatic League.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Bajestani, a convincing Everyman with a charismatic glower, expertly suggests the monster — and the petulant man-child — seething inside the loving, prayerful family man.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• As Joey Locke, the overworked window washer frustrated with her thankless job in a corporate building, Ridley deploys the same glower for every challenge her character faces.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
• As the anxious, aspiring Cambridge postgrad, Labbadia glowers and snaps and trudges around in a dirty bathrobe, playing a first-person shooter on a handheld gaming console and sullenly bouncing a tennis ball off the wall.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
• Channeling his inner Oliver Reed, Izzard glowers with great panache, conveying the festering frustration of a man tired of waiting for his seemingly immortal mother to move on and hand over the crown.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2017
• In the hospital bed, his body is rigid, his voice is unaffected, and his glower is unblinking; in the CIA office days later, as he’s being applauded for his successes and his return to work, his smile looks pained.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
• Mike, now played with a friendly glower by the bald and barrel-chested Chiklis, is a construction-site foreman, married for decades to Eileen (Mary Stuart Masterson), with several grown children.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025