glades

plural of glade

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of glades The terrain favors glades and varied pitches, and the compact base keeps logistics simple. — Caroline Tell, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026 On the one hand, winter brings fresh powder, steep descents, and the chance to traverse beautiful glades. — Graham Averill, Outside, 16 Jan. 2026 The mountain doesn’t let any of that powder go to waste, keeping a lax in-bounds policy that allows skiers of any and all levels to find their perfect glades. — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2026 Today, Vail is one of the country’s largest ski areas, with more than 5,300 acres and dozens of lifts that spread snow-chasers across front-side cruisers and glades, and to the kind of back-bowl skiing that people plan whole trips around. — Bailey Berg, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2025 Visitors can ski on open runs, glades, cliffs and chutes, with the longest runs and most vertical drop in the Midwest, a good challenge for experienced skiers. — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 3 Dec. 2025 The terrain offers a little of everything—long groomers, steep, off-piste glades, and even 20km of Nordic skiing if that’s more your speed. — Francesca Krempa, StyleCaster, 17 Nov. 2025 The Deep Temerity area, serviced by a dedicated chairlift, holds a network of vertigo-inducing steeps, glades, and narrow chutes. — Charles Curkin, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025 Pygmy rattlesnakes are found near water and sometimes in rocky uplands, pine woods and glades, according to the TWRA. — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glades
Noun
  • Continue west and the road winds through meadows, aspen groves and small roadside pullouts before climbing to Ripple Creek Pass at 10,343 feet.
    — Joe Ruch, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Starting at Massie Gap at Grayson Highlands State Park, the nine-mile round-trip hike winds across open highland meadows, past grazing ponies, and into a mossy spruce-fir forest ecosystem.
    — Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Mixed-use pastures known as dehesas were planted with crops and peppered with oak trees, which provided cork and firewood.
    — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Groundhogs Groundhogs prefer to live near pastures, along the edges of woods, or under sheds or structures.
    — Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The move comes during one of the Mara’s busiest periods, when the annual wildebeest migration draws huge numbers of animals, tourists and conservation teams onto the grasslands.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Junon bears the brunt of Weapons’ attacks in defense of the planet, parts of Gongaga have been flooded, and the grasslands look remarkably different from above.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Everything about this verdant, bucolic space is antithetical to the fog, fire, and wide-open, sprawling moors that have so far dominated the movie.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • As do the moors that stretch behind the parsonage.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • In very cold temperatures, elk may linger longer in clearings.
    — Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026
  • That’s the first of several remaining hard pivots that reveal Aepoh — and later, her Karen kinswoman Aeva (Waywiree Ittianunkul) — as uprooted victims of the authorities’ clearings.
    — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Glades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glades. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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