How to Use gloss over in a Sentence

gloss over

phrasal verb

• Still does not gloss over the toll that Parkinson’s takes.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2024
• But his stylish book glosses over the flaws in that vision.
  — Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• But in their rush to celebrate, the team glossed over a few hiccups along the way.
  — Allbusiness, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
• But there also are the rookie moments that tend to get glossed over.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
• The issue of Palestinian statehood can no longer be glossed over.
  — Maria Fantappie, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 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 best part of the movie is when it’s glossed over that Harriet Tubman was part of an underground robot railroad.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
• The violence is never lurid, but Fountain doesn’t gloss over it, either.
  — Shawna Seed, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The past lives of her textiles—their original owners—aren’t glossed over with her artist’s hand but rather made into something anew.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The Early Access version of the game—which netted a million Steam sales in its first 24 hours last month—forces you to do a lot of the heavy lifting that many other city builders tend to gloss over.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 10 May 2024
• Both angler and artist are always reading, attuned to details that others might gloss over.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024
• Together, these men eat, drink, and talk, while attempting to gloss over the death already inside their bodies.
  — Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 24 Sep. 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
• The point of a biopic is to capture the essence of the subject, not to create a Madame Tussauds fun house that glosses over history in favor of a perfect likeness (most biopics fail at both, hence the hex).
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 7 June 2024
• None of these attempts at glossing over the very real concerns of millions of Americans is helpful.
  — Dan McGinn, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• Both the book and the film — or at least the marketing campaign for the film — have come under fire for glossing over the seriousness of domestic abuse with too much gooey romance.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Paris may have been the inspiration for this spring 2025 collection but women from all over the world will surely be glossing over this collection.
  — Blue Carreon, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The movie Twisters, starring Hollywood actors in hot pursuit of tornadoes, isn’t that far off in its portrayal of chasing, but the film glosses over some of the hard work and challenges involved.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
• Fifty years later, the historical memory of Watergate and Nixon's resignation has tended to gloss over the role played not by the media but by the House and Senate.
  — Philip A. Wallach, National Review, 8 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Despite being one of the label’s first stars, Mack’s contribution is often glossed over in favor of labelmate Biggie Smalls.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
• Nelson's onscreen video call with Cory this season focused on his recovery and positive attitude and their friendship, but fans were upset that the episode glossed over important details about the accident.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025