How to Use glass ceiling in a Sentence

glass ceiling

noun

• If the glass ceiling didn't quite break in the 1970s, Beatts threw some big rocks.
  — Hillel Italie, ajc, 10 Apr. 2021
• There's no more talk, as there was in 2016, of glass ceilings and all this stuff.
  — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2019
• Know your worth, fight for seat at the table, break the glass ceiling.
  — Meaghan Hanley, refinery29.com, 24 May 2018
• But in 1993, Yo-Yo seemed to be on the cusp of shattering the glass ceiling.
  — Liz Sanchez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• If Aso backs her, Kamikawa could break through the highest of Japan’s glass ceilings.
  — Ian Bremmer, TIME, 23 May 2024
• Two of these women are no strangers to breaking the glass ceiling.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 27 Sep. 2020
• LaPolt said with a shrug, noting the glass ceiling would not apply to her.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 6 June 2019
• Things took off from there, and Earhart soon was breaking the highest of glass ceilings.
  — Erin Davis and Brandon Griggs, CNN, 24 July 2019
• Thanks for teaching me about the glass ceiling—and then showing me how to swing a hammer.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 25 Mar. 2023
• The broken rung is a relatively new term, while the glass ceiling dates back to the 1970s.
  — Katy McFee, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Women have come a long way in the corporate world, but the glass ceiling must be made out of Pyrex.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
• In the day when there were not many cracks in that glass ceiling, Marjorie put a big dent in it — not just in Maryland but across the U.S.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• In order to break the glass ceiling, women need to push through their self-doubt in order to rise.
  — Somdutta Singh, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• In the rear the sunroom has its original all-glass ceiling and walls that look into the back yard.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2018
• But there is no more glass ceiling for anyone to break through in Seattle.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
• Not to steal the glass ceiling metaphor, but to push through boundaries that have been in place for a really long time.
  — Dan Shinaberry, Teen Vogue, 2 June 2018
• For a long time, science has had a glass ceiling against women.
  — Emily Atkin, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
• Earhart was one of the greatest pilots of her time, and broke the glass ceiling in the feminist movement.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
• Bee isn't the first female late-night host: Joan Rivers and then Chelsea Handler helped break that glass ceiling.
  — Lorraine Berry, Marie Claire, 10 May 2017
• Whether one or the other was the absolute first to break a glass ceiling could be open to debate.
  — William McDonald, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2019
• His choice broke the same glass ceiling that Ferraro had 24 years earlier, this time on the other side of the aisle.
  — Alex Scimecca, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2020
• Treadmills lined an Olympic-sized swimming pool with the Tokyo night sky peering in through the glass ceiling.
  — Caroline Rothstein, Marie Claire, 27 Feb. 2018
• Trujillo believes the way to break the glass ceiling is to have more role models.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2021
• Don't hide because the world has put labels and boxes and glass ceilings.
  — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
• Okay, so Hillary Rodham Clinton has cracked the glass ceiling.
  — Margaret Doris, Esquire, 29 July 2016
• And even though the dining room is small, a gorgeous sunroom with stone walls and a glass ceiling more than makes up for it.
  — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 12 Oct. 2015
• And this is why breaking the gla-- one of the reasons why breaking the glass ceiling is so important.
  — CBS News, 17 Jan. 2018
• And yes, put millions of more cracks in that highest and hardest glass ceiling.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 26 May 2017
• Clinton embraced the role of glass ceiling breaker in 2016 but ultimately lost to Trump, who had no qualms about physically blocking her out during a debate.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2024
• Hence, her breaking of this particular glass ceiling was viewed less as a move toward gender equity and more as an example of professional overreach.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024