glare

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verb

ˈgler

glared; glaring

intransitive verb

: to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light

: stand out, obtrude

: to stare angrily or fiercely

glared at me with rage and hate

transitive verb

: to express (something, such as hostility) by staring angrily

glared defiance at each other

archaic : to cause to be sharply reflected

glare

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noun

: a harsh uncomfortably bright light

the glare of a neon sign

the glare of publicity

especially : painfully bright sunlight

: cheap showy brilliance : garishness

enjoyed the glitter and glare of the city's nightlife

: an angry or fierce stare

: a surface or sheet of smooth and slippery ice

Example Sentences

Verb The sun glared down relentlessly. The white snow glared in the morning sunlight. The teacher glared at him as he walked in late. Noun There was a glare coming off the water. I was blinded by the glare of the approaching headlights. I shielded my eyes from the glare of the sun. The car's headlights are designed to cut down on glare. She responded to the reporters' questions with an angry glare. See More

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

The face of the shooter seemed to glare down from the television above his son’s bed.

Jenny Deam, ProPublica, 31 May 2022 Observations that could lead to more discoveries about space are being obstructed due to light and glare from the satellites, even with attempts by companies like SpaceX to dim them.

Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2022 One thing that makes windshield glare much worse is cleaning the top of the dash with a product like Armor All, which is designed to make surfaces shine.

Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021 This time, the left-hander plunked the third baseman in the left elbow with his first pitch, leading Suárez to glare at the closer before making his way to first.

Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2021 And with the pandemic finally easing, the summer sun will beat down Sunday on mostly maskless faces until darkness falls, the fireworks begin and rockets glare red over citizens no longer required to stand six feet apart.

Washington Post, 4 July 2021 Just watching two young women whisper to each other and glare seductively at the camera is giving me a mild panic attack.

Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 May 2021 Photos of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of Iran’s 1979 Revolution, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who succeeded him as the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, glare down at you.

New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021 In a dilapidated building in central Awka, at the office of a local human rights group, the Prime Advocacy for Human Rights Preservers Initiative, cartoon posters of angry judges glare down from the walls.

New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020

Noun

Thompson sat away from the glare in a corner of the room and considered the morning’s work.

John Lahr, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022 But during a moment of candor at the Heat’s ongoing training camp at the Baha Mar resort, away from the glare of cameras, there was greater candor.

Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022 Born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Jerusalem in 1992, Sultan lived a life far from the glare of scripts, auditions and cameras.

Allyson Portee, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2022 Jetsu said the companions will have to be verified by observations, perhaps with an astronomical technique called interferometry to distinguish their light from the glare of the two main stars.

NBC News, 11 Nov. 2021 Away from the glare, the fear and fragility of her new world took over.

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021 Cruise is probably best kept sheltered from the glare of the public market for now.

Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2021 And in the provinces, which sit mostly away from the glare of international media, militants have fired guns and beaten protesters who removed the Taliban's flag from town squares.

Rob Picheta, Nadine Schmidt And Tim Lister, CNN, 20 Aug. 2021 Away from the glare of the streetlights, the migrants were making their beds on the beach.

New York Times, 2 June 2021 See More

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