How To Use Glowering In A Sentence
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Both albums relish shimmering percussion tracks and blindingly reflective surface washes, whereas others in the alliance fuzz everything out in a glowering haze.
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At a quick turn o 'the road they wintled owre; and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them!
The House with the Green Shutters
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He could just have been a sore loser who'd met an opponent coldly invulnerable to his glowering mind games.
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He sat glowering at his opponent.
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Beside me Mac stared at the two glowering figures in confusion.
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The other half quaked, disturbed by the glowering lines of his face, the reproachful glare of his obsidian eyes.
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It sat glowering at me, upset because half an hour earlier, I had confiscated a small marsupial it had brought in - something between a rat and a bandicoot.
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Mayhap thou didst sleep over-sound last night when I called by the river bank," he began, glowering darkly.
THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
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Instead of clamming up or glowering, he sighs and admits he behaved stupidly.
Times, Sunday Times
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On television his glowering and beard-stroking would become monotonous, and wooing the Jewish vote would present a definite obstacle.
Why Anthony Eden Never Wore a Coonskin Cap: James Wolcott
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He walked alone, grim-faced, hair awry and eyes glowering.
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Learning that his quarry had given him a slip a glowering devil seemed to rage within the king's heart, raising dark and savage gall.
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And yes, in spite of their glowering looks and fierce demeanor, owls can be endearing.
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Looking somewhat hurt, she flashed him a glowering gaze and shot off down the hall, almost to her bedroom door when the phone rang.
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And less glowering Russian boyars hovering in the background.
Watch John Wayne in The Quiet Man: live!
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His familiar face appeared on the front page of the Brighton Argus, wearing an expression of glowering discomfort.
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But don't leave their favourite childhood teddy glowering out from atop the chest of drawers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Under that plump moon and the glowering gaze of the Matterhorn, we understood why the Swiss feel an almost mystical sense of oneness with the pile of rock.
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A tremendous amount of glowering, eye-rolling and hamming it up went into silent-film acting, making it near impossible for modern viewers to comprehend the impact Valentino made at the time.
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Cobbled streets weave past baroque palaces, lively beer halls, glowering castles, and light - infused cathedrals.
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You can see it in the way the boatmen fret over their dories: spit-polishing microscopic scratches on the hulls, glowering when passengers track dirt onto the decks.
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Virginia looked around at all of the faces staring back at her, some thunderstruck, others glowering.
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In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear … and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too.
Flashman and the angel of the lord
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Salton's glowering daystar rose behind her shoulder, a fire upon the land obliterating shadow and coolth.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Even so, he stayed in the room, glowering and suspicious, making sure that the examination was kept within certain limits.
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The stockkeeper -- George Powell was his name -- had got into the dairy, as I thought, to lick the cream, for he was an awful hand on it; but he kept hanging about, and glowering at the milk-pans, and then looking at me, till at last he said some nonsense, and I told him to be off with his daffing; I would tell the master if he said an uncivil word.
Mr. Hogarth's Will
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Although I was being importuned with an obstinate request for alms, I nonetheless summoned enough courage to give him a glowering look in an attempt to scare him away.
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Nearby, a team of glowering, mustachioed Hungarians in camo pants and combat boots was having a disastrous morning, shattering a stack of plates before the meal service even began and struggling to get a complicated vegetable-and-cod appetizer cooked all the way through.
Food Fight
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Under that plump moon and the glowering gaze of the Matterhorn, we understood why the Swiss feel an almost mystical sense of oneness with the pile of rock.
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It poured down rain in heavy sheets and now she was angry, glowering and wet.
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June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds.
Times, Sunday Times
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I called to the glowering teenager sitting on our front steps.
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His touch and tone are wonderful, and on the solo pieces his use of percussive sounds, banging chords, glowering bass figures and scampering uptempo lines make him sound like an innovator.
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But that's no 'what I call cannel, "grumbled Davie, glowering fiercely at the burning coal, as if meditating a fresh attack.
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
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He considered her, glowering in the plain, short-sleeved dimity gown Weltrude had allowed her.
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
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The result of this imbalance is to frustrate the natural desire of the human psyche, thereby placing the individual in a perpetual state of angst and glowering fury.
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I followed Mundin into the shed, turning every so often and glowering at Fifi, who trailed behind us.
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On the Monday after the April Gold Cup, Gypsy Joe surveyed the glowering faces of his two long-term jockeys as they drove into his stable-yard for the morning exercise and training session.
The Elvis Latte
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So we sit like global sport's great harrumphing, cobwebbed mother-in-law, glowering with assumed entitlement, craving only a sense of triumphant, spoiling vindication.
Now England have won the Ashes, it's time to focus on being liked | Barney Ronay
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Deerhunter blipped onto the blogosphere with its glowering 2007 album "Cryptograms," and the Atlanta band has remained prolific ever since, expertly straddling the line between noisy guitars and warmer pop sensibilities.
From Rap to the Rapture
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June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds.
Times, Sunday Times
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A moment later he emerged, a heavy-set young fellow of eighteen or nineteen, with a glowering, villainous countenance, trailing at his heels.
Chapter 3
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he stared gloweringly at this morning's headlines
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His cousin sat at the kitchen table, glowering.
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With me at one end of the long table and the red-bearded giant glowering at the other we were a gift for a passing jokester.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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He had the face of a fighter, with a crooked nose and glowering blue eyes and a jaw that jutted whenever the situation demanded.
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Neither of us dared to sleep in the attic room, which hung above our stay like a dark, glowering cloud.
Times, Sunday Times
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It may have been oppressive in the weather and the glowering dark skies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dezra ordered stubbornly, pinching her lips at him and glowering from beneath the big hat.
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Now in her rancor they burned dark and purple, glowering as she felt his perusal.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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When the junior senator from Wyoming brandishes a piece of paper on the Senate floor (where, as a character points out, libel laws do not apply) to proclaim, "I have here in my hand ..." he clearly calls out the glowering ghost of the junior senator from Wisconsin.
At 50, a D.C. Novel With Legs
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Far from sitting on a chair in the corner of a room looking bored and occasionally glowering at small children, Kirsty is to give a series of guided tours and a gallery talk about the public's reaction to the Turner Prize.
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You can see it in the way the boatmen fret over their dories: spit-polishing microscopic scratches on the hulls, glowering when passengers track dirt onto the decks.
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All around us are towering, glowering peaks rising with perfect irregularity from the flat, green waters of the fjord.
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But don't leave their favourite childhood teddy glowering out from atop the chest of drawers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neither of us dared to sleep in the attic room, which hung above our stay like a dark, glowering cloud.
Times, Sunday Times
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In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear ... and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too.
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