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Example sentences for "glides"

Lexicographically close words:
gliche; glide; glided; glider; gliders; glideth; gliding; gliff; glim; glimmer
  1. Like the swell of some sweet tune, Morning rises into noon, May glides onward into June.

  2. Through silvered days of vistas gold and green Contentedly he glides away, serene.

  3. She glides through the crowd, like a snake through the grass.

  4. It is then that a woman is carried away like an impetuous wind, darts forth like the flames of a conflagration, exhibits a movement like a billow which glides over the white pebbles.

  5. How he glides atop the waves, skims them, yet is never reached by their flame-like leapings; simulates their motion without the exhaustion into which they sink incessantly.

  6. Through the sand the water slips, and through the mist the light glides away.

  7. The lark and the light are as one, and wherever he glides over the wet furrows the glint of the sun goes with him.

  8. Relying on her husband, she glides into her new position.

  9. Donna Juanita waves her hand in fond adieu as the schooner glides across to Alameda.

  10. Swiftly the machine glides downwards towards them, and it can now be seen how surprisingly little it is affected by the rough weather and gusts; so much so that a little chorus of approval is heard.

  11. Then the Aeroplane with noiseless engine glides over the boundary of the Aerodrome, and, with just a soft soughing sound from the air it cleaves, lands gently not fifty yards from the onlookers.

  12. But our brave friends unloose the flowing sail, And through the scattering flocks of duck and tern The boat glides on--the white foam in our trail.

  13. From the death-cart DIANE glides on and slowly goes up the scaffold steps.

  14. Who glides like a phantom through the streets, without home, friend, or occupation.

  15. He glides through that enchanted mystic world, O'er streams with beds of gold that sweetly twirled With woven splendor 'neath the blaze of gems That crown each tree with glistening diadems.

  16. She stately glides across the shining floor, And eyes them both, then turns toward the door.

  17. Having learned the direction in which she is gone, he follows it, and glides into a region wherein only fairies should have right to dwell.

  18. Along the ragged top Smiles a rich stripe of gold that up still glides Until it dwindles to a thread and then, As breath glides from a mirror, melts away.

  19. At its base glides the "Green River Creek," which flows into the Housatonic near Great Barrington.

  20. On the crest of the waves, a something that glides Before the stiff breeze, and gracefully rides On the inflowing tide majestic and free A huge and mysterious bird of the sea.

  21. A spy glides into the cells, to listen to the prisoners' talk, and is merely regaled by Apollonius with a description of the wonders he has seen in his wanderings.

  22. But monarchy easily glides into tyranny, and he accepts the Empire only as a perilous necessity which may be justified by the advent of a good prince.

  23. Manlius Vopiscus had built two luxurious seats on opposite banks of the Anio, where the stream glides silently under overarching boughs.

  24. How it glides to my heart by the sweetest of roads!

  25. Beneath glides the infant Po; and where he leads our eyes the plain is only limited by pearly mist.

  26. Over the rail My hand I trail Within the shadow of the sail, A joy intense, The cooling sense Glides down my drowsy indolence.

  27. Out through the utmost gates of space, Past where the gray stars drift, To the widening Infinite, my soul Glides on, a vessel swift; Yet loses not her anchorage In yonder azure rift.

  28. And now, as the gondola still glides on, there is heard a slow and distant tolling of bells.

  29. The prayer for deliverance glides into that for guidance, since the latter is the deeper need, and the former will scarcely be answered unless the suppliant's will docilely offers the latter.

  30. The last strophe, too, is closely connected with the third, since faith bracing itself against fear glides naturally into prayer.

  31. Once again it glides upon the entranced ear, and still we lean in breathless eagerness to catch the last faint cadence sighing itself away upon the palpitating air.

  32. When the steamer glides out of the land-locked inlet at the bottom of which Wolfborough is situated, one of those pictures, forever ineffaceable, presents itself.

  33. In one place, where it glides between two prodigious masses of rock dislodged from the cliff, it is so narrow as to admit only a single person at a time.

  34. Amid these works, on which the eager eye Delights to fix, or glides reluctant by, When all combined, their decent pomp display, Where shall we first our early offering pay?

  35. With Atreus, In friendly converse glides Thyestes' shade, And children playfully around them sport.

  36. A moment, and then a dark figure glides swiftly round the corner of the house and stands beside him.

  37. Amid dead silence it glides into the midst of the expectant semicircle.

  38. In the front of the house is a pretty flower garden, separated by a haw-haw from a large pasture, sloping southwards gently down to a stream, which glides along through water-cress and willow beds to join the Kennet.


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