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 -
For lunch, in a green glade at the foot of red-rock cliffs, Battista and I were joined by his son, Judah.
— Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023 -
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 cat roads in the Selkirk Mountains climb 8,300 feet, accessing everything from mellow glades and steep chutes to wide open alpine bowls.
— Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2023 -
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 -
There are rolling lawns and woodsy glades for picnickers, a play structure for tots, and pickleball courts, where the thwock of wiffleballs wafts through the air.
— Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024 -
That could mean a stand of pines, a glade near a creek, or anywhere moss grows, which usually indicates the right balance of shade and moisture.
— Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2024 -
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 -
To move between the high passes and among the glacial lakes and verdant glades of the Sierra is to be dumbstruck by the same landscape that catalyzed U.S. conservation.
— Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 9 Sep. 2024 -
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 climbing to the roof of Arizona, the gentle 2.5-mile Aspen Nature Loop quickly branches off to the west, dipping in and out of lavishly colored forest and crossing open glades with panoramic views.
— Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024
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