How to Use gloss over in a Sentence

gloss over

phrasal verb

• But there also are the rookie moments that tend to get glossed over.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
• But the situations are so cliché, the conflicts so glossed over, that the connection gets lost.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• The violence is never lurid, but Fountain doesn’t gloss over it, either.
  — Shawna Seed, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Even local-news broadcasts glossed over many of the details, focussing instead on the tension between the city council and the mayor.
  — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
• Those were excellent performances and shouldn’t be glossed over.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2024
• Both angler and artist are always reading, attuned to details that others might gloss over.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024
• Cemetery caretakers have said on signage and a web page that the memorial was part of a larger attempt to gloss over slavery’s evils.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• One common criticism was that Li glossed over the relative poverty and hardship of rural life.
  — Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
• Ferrari recommends updating the trend by using a shimmery powder right in the center of the lips and applying a tinted gloss over it.
  — Pia Velasco, Allure, 6 Nov. 2023
• But this glosses over the extent to which our society pushes girls and women toward motherhood, in both subtle and not so subtle ways.
  — The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Barbie’s persona also glossed over the realities of her early years.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 21 July 2023
• According to Van Essen, that approach glosses over dramatic differences in patterns of surface folds from one brain to the next.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 31 May 2023
• Regardless of who’s at the helm, though, each episode does a fantastic job of shedding light on regions that are too often glossed over in other nature documentaries.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2024
• The arm remains elite and the raw athletic ability is more than capable of glossing over the lesser experience in center.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2023
• Knowing full well the significance of Rosenthal both on the screen and in real life, Mann refused to gloss over the details of the B-17 and the many responsibilities that a bomber pilot has before, during and after a flight.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2024
• That idea, however, glosses over the contributions of Black artists who have been holding down these genres before the Renaissance trilogy came to life.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2024
• While in France, as elsewhere, the left and the far right are often viewed as vying for power over the political center, this narrative glosses over some critical distinctions.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Society has a terrible habit of only recognizing achievement while glossing over the greatness in the shadows.
  — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 4 Jan. 2024
• The vegan formula is fortified with marshmallow root extract, a soothing agent that not only glosses over the skin for flawless makeup, but softens the skin over time, as well.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
• But attention tends to focus almost exclusively on startups that have won the battle for venture capital, glossing over the 90% of the iceberg under the surface.
  — Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Unfortunately, the male partner's contribution to a couple's pregnancy plans tends to get glossed over.
  — Karen Pallarito, Health, 12 May 2023
• DeSantis repeatedly glossed over Florida’s worst problems in ways the national media would not be likely to catch.
  — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024
• Armendáriz went on to solidify his legacy when wrestling Hijo Del Santo, but the film provides a strangely sanitized version of these events, even glossing over his substance abuse issues.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2023
• Insiders at Warners didn’t even try to gloss over the situation, saying the movie was rejected by moviegoers on a wholesale basis (the studio had anticipated a 50 to 55 percent drop).
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2023
• The message of Elliott’s signing is demonstrating that, unlike last season, Belichick isn’t going to just blithely gloss over miscalculations that harm the offense without changing course.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• The officers’ union, the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, said in a statement that the federal report had glossed over vital and heroic work.
  — Dan Simmons, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
• But Coppola glosses over what makes Priscilla most interesting: the ways in which the woman found ways to maintain her association with Elvis while also fully becoming her own person.
  — EW.com, 24 Oct. 2023
• Iger isn’t trying to gloss over the troubles facing the company’s content divisions, telling investors in recent days that quantity may have taken a priority over quality.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• Beijing aims to gloss over these challenges at the gathering to project its power and laud its contributions to global development as a prime example of its superior leadership.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 18 Oct. 2023
• Given the multiplicity of jihadist factions operating in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theater, as well as the Taliban’s long-standing ties to most of them, glossing over these details now would seem like an invitation to crisis later.
  — David Petraeus, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024