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Example sentences for "glibly"

Lexicographically close words:
gles; gless; glewed; gli; glib; glibness; glich; gliche; glide; glided
  1. She forced herself to speak glibly and without reserve, though it seemed to her that in doing so she was somehow participating in the glittering vulgarity of the place where they sat.

  2. A third error of the uricacidites is to talk so glibly of the chemistry of the blood and the influence of this or that food or medicine on its chemical changes.

  3. Solon Denney followed me, glibly enumerating the industries of a great and busy state.

  4. He sought to bear his honors with the modesty that is native to him, but in his heart he knew that we now spoke of him glibly as the Boss of Little Arcady, and the consciousness of it bubbled in his manner in spite of him.

  5. You talk very glibly of expense, my dear Avice.

  6. For, surely, neither Stryker the butler, nor Mr. Landon would have those names so glibly on his tongue.

  7. And Philip, who entered at first glibly enough at the rector's side, was soon drawn into depths far beyond him.

  8. Philip was also well versed in politics for a lad of his age, and could discuss glibly the right of Parliament to tax the colonies.

  9. He rattled glibly on, recounting the episode of the Hotel de Loup with much the same air of inward entertainment with which he had narrated it to Coventry himself.

  10. Yet it will not do to answer glibly in the negative.

  11. In a happy hour I should have said glibly that we discern and interpret beauty.

  12. I was amused and surprised at my own quickness and inventiveness, at the confidence with which I interpreted everything so glibly and easily.

  13. It is interesting to hear educated people talking glibly in London or Paris about the decay of the Christian religion in the same breath in which they profess their unbounded admiration of the heroism of Father Damien.

  14. It is not his distortion of nature, as pre-Raphaelite limitedness glibly asserts, but his carelessness of her prodigious potentialities, that marks one side of his colossal accomplishment.

  15. He glibly repeated the oath which he had heard his uncle use.

  16. His words ran glibly and showed an off-hand mastery of panthers quite unequalled.

  17. The stage-manager had this important scene of mutual misunderstanding between Stark and Dresser and Daisy Fostelle repeated twice, until every word fell glibly and every gesture seemed automatic.

  18. The canary was singing glibly in his cage by the window-side.

  19. In verity he knew it as glibly as the alphabet, for he was infinitely painstaking.

  20. Brahmins may talk of being absorbed in the "One Supreme Soul," and Theosophists glibly repeat the form of words, but Buddhists claim nothing of the sort.

  21. We had read "The Light of Asia"; and heard theosophists talk glibly of "Mahatmas" whose wisdom is more ancient and profound than anything in the religious literature of the West.

  22. Barrington thanked him, he could do no less, yet he felt little trust in a man who could confess so glibly to treachery.

  23. The porter was nothing loth, and was soon talking glibly enough.

  24. Therewith Mrs. Morley ran glibly through the principal topics of the hour: the breach threatened between M.

  25. He could talk and write glibly enough upon the themes of equality and fraternity, and was so far an ultra-democrat that he thought moderation the sign of a mediocre understanding.

  26. They keep five maids indoors, and a charwoman three times a week, two men and a boy in the garden, and two men in the stables," glibly enumerated Miss Jane.

  27. It lays not the slightest stress on any of its followers martyrising their bodies as you so glibly describe.

  28. Of course it is,' glibly said Sam, putting a good face upon the matter.

  29. Very good,' glibly went on Sam, whose tongue was smoother than oil, and who was gifted with a sort of oratory and some learning when he chose to put it out.

  30. Young man," said Mr. Dean with a solemn shake of his head while he poured himself out yet another glass of that particular port, "were I in your place I should not talk so glibly about love.

  31. The figures fall glibly from the tongue, but just try to realise them!


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glibly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.