How to Use glade in a Sentence

glade

noun
  • Across the glade a chorus of bleats drifts from a crumbling hut, shaped from thatch and earth.
    The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • Japanese cedar trees, their bark the color of a fake tan, form a pretty glade around the shore.
    Trish Lorenz, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Then as now, the shelter was a lean-to perched high on concrete pilings in a glade hemmed by a curving brook.
    Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
  • The woodsy walk along a stone wall leads inevitably to ‶Mending Wall,″ the bridge across a small stream to ‶Hyla Brook″ where the family used to picnic in a brookside glade.
    David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Upon her death, Act 2 transports us to a forest glade, Giselle’s gravesite.
    Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • One large hunk of granite stands upright like a scholar’s rock, a miniature mountain in the glade.
    Curbed, 13 Nov. 2022
  • There are steep glades, cliffs to drop and a myriad of easier terrain for skiers of all stripes.
    Brian Irwin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Acres of Ohio horsemint, pale leafcup, leafy prairie clover and glade quillwort now thrive on land that once was a forest of prickly buckthorn.
    Susan Demar Lafferty, Daily Southtown, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The Leaf is quick off the line, stable in corners (the low-slung batteries) and quiet, humming like the proverbial bee-loud glade.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Gauzy American landscapes — a red-rock desert, a rainbowed glade — are threaded with a dashed red line that tracks the snails’ progress.
    Julia Turner, New York Times, 18 May 2018
  • Yet there's a profound sense of order and repose, as if one had come upon a light-dappled glade.
    Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
  • If trees and powder are your speed, the glades within Whistler’s Symphony area are heaven on earth.
    Brent Rose, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The trio then suspends a 4-pound charge from a bamboo stake, leaving it about a meter above the snowpack in an open glade of old-growth timber.
    Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2017
  • The resort will also offer glade skiing through trees and some cliff drops for experts.
    Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Beren falls in love with the beautiful Lúthien after seeing her dance in a glade filled with hemlocks, just as Tolkien’s wife Edith had danced for him.
    Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 14 June 2017
  • There are at least shades of that here, with herds of Brachiosaurs feeding alongside rivers and amidst leafy glades while horns and strings tickle our emotions.
    Jordan Crucchiola, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2014
  • Almost immediately, 600 yards away, a large bull strolled out of a spruce glade.
    Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
  • In a small glade a sculpted two-headed snake sticks out of the ground, and elsewhere statuettes of round-bellied men gather at giant tree roots.
    Femke Van Zeijl, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2016
  • The thwok! of booming drives echoes through the glades as girls pushing golf carts stop to peer through range-finders, like explorers sighting a distant shore.
    Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Braintree Mountain Forest is one of Vermont’s best glade zones.
    David Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Visitors will have views of a remnant of native prairie that was once common in Kentucky, as well as woodlands and the limestone glades.
    James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Situated at treeline, with low-angle glades below and wide-open slopes, Opus has some of the best alpine terrain in the San Juans straight out its back door.
    Jen Murphy, Sunset Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Just opposite the church is Manor Farm, where Hayward led us through the bucolic garden and into a deep wooded glade.
    Catherine Fairweather, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The new runs, rated double-black diamond, will include tree skiing and glades.
    John Meyer, The Know, 20 Nov. 2019
  • But instead of a chairlift, dedicated skin tracks will lead skiers to open meadows and aspen glades.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
  • In one scene in the film, Gillon glides through a glade, a relatively quiet setting filled only with the sound of his skis on the powder, the twigs and snow crackling beneath him and his breathing.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Set in an open glade atop the peak for which it's named, LeConte Lodge puts the awe in awesome with what may be the ultimate Smokies view—commanding vistas of over 100 miles on a clear day.
    Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • Set in an open glade atop the peak for which it's named, LeConte Lodge puts the awe in awesome with what may be the ultimate Smokies view—commanding vistas of over 100 miles on a clear day.
    Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The natural world features in the film, both the nourishment of its beauty—a wooded glade behind the front line, a lone tree on a rolling plain—and in its defilement by trenches and craters.
    Karl Vick, Time, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Check out the rare forest seeps, where water wells up from holes in the ground, as well as the dolomite glade, which is representative of the Ozarks but rare in this particular region.
    Alison Van Houten, Outside Online, 6 June 2019

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