How to Use glower in a Sentence

glower

1 of 2 verb

• The librarian glowered at us when she heard us laughing.
• In the center of his living room stands a game bearing the glowering visage of a...
  — Patrick McGroarty, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2017
• Finally, the waiter, a big man with burly arms and a white apron, leaned over the counter and, propped up on his knuckles, glowered at the young man.
  — Azi Paybarah, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
• The professional advice is not to smile and not to glower.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2023
• As their laughter echoed down the hallway, stern faces glowered from old black-and-white portraits in gilded frames.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• The plot takes a twist or two, but serves mainly as a thread linking shootouts and glowering confrontations, with a brief respite for love.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
• Two dark towers have risen over the skyline, glowering at each other across the East River.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Aug. 2023
• Mark is convinced that one of the Harga men, who’s glowering at him across the way, is going to kill him for pissing on the ancestral tree.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 3 July 2019
• And even when von Sydow glowered, as many of his roles required him to do, the expansiveness of his spirit always showed through.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Mar. 2020
• The North Korean team glowered at their opponents, as if about to assault them.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• So too did its coach Mark Dantonio, who glowered as his team suffered a third-straight loss by a margin of at least three touchdowns.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2019
• President Trump takes pains to glower at the camera, boasts about the size of his hands (and not just his hands) and recently tweeted a mock video of himself wrestling CNN.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 7 July 2017
• Finally McCain came to the front, raised his arm to get the attention of the tally clerk, gestured no, and walked away past the glowering McConnell.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 2017
• The ambulance, that mute and glowering witness, drove away.
  — Tom Junod, Esquire, 14 July 2014
• And in the roadless hills south of Zdarsky’s airport stands the Lake Bonneville Guardian, a wooden totem pole painted with a glowering sea captain hugging a bear.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• Trager’s Preysing shows us the glowering man of appetites suppressed beneath the successful-man-of-business mien.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• The eagerness of so many to claim Thunberg as their glowering proxy was curious.
  — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• A heavy door, creaking open to reveal the craggy, glowering face of a disapproving old man.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2017
• Who are these folks who thirsted to see Trump smiling and successful, rather than Trump glowering or Hillary villainized?
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
• In the photo Chris and Baughn are smiling gamely, and DeLogé is mugging, crossing her arms and glowering like a bank robber in a mug shot.
  — Vauhini Vara, WIRED, 23 May 2017
• Bukovsky glowered at the agents, whose predecessors had tormented him so.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 June 2023
• Crowe does his level best, but the Oscar-winning actor is fighting through layers of silicone to even smile, glower or laugh.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 28 June 2019
• Meanwhile, our critical eyes see the front end as assertive but not glowering madly.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2020
• The defendant appeared to glower at the sergeant, who is positioned at the Colleton County Courthouse each morning to help transport the inmate.
  — Fox News, 30 Jan. 2023
• Glowing red eyes glower from beneath a spiked mask of deep aubergine, a lethal spike slicing up from the snout like a gargantuan Japanese horned beetle.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 18 June 2020
• Ellis has a switch that takes him from smiling nice guy to glowering gamer with an intensity that causes teammates to tease him about it — and also steer clear at times.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2018
• That was the boy’s father, the monster of this midway, the snarling, glowering freak show who found some of his most honorable work at a traveling carnival in the Midwest, taking on all comers.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 19 Oct. 2017
• Trump glowered in his dark suit and peculiarly long red tie, taking the oath, speechifying, signing documents.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 22 Jan. 2017
• As Ali recounted his professional past, Williams sat at the defense table, fingers laced in his lap, glowering in the direction of his onetime friend.
  — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 22 June 2017
• Whether glowering with rage or segueing expertly from berating his staff to giving them a pep talk, Crowe's version of Ailes fills in the blanks of a script that is more detail-heavy than illuminating.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2019

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glower

2 of 2 noun

• But in the next village, the intense glowers begin anew.
  — Christopher Bagley, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2018
• When Aaron spins Zoey around on the dance floor, Luca glowers in the corner with a bottle of champagne.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The next great glower won’t be found unless someone is willing to look.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2021
• The glower Gregg Popovich gave him could have melted butter in a Minnesota winter.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2021
• Is that what my coworkers used to stare at every day in real life — a pinched, ferocious glower?
  — Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com, 26 Apr. 2022
• The husband and father, Markus, is played by the great Mads Mikkelsen, barely recognizable behind a graying beard and lethal glower.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 13 May 2021
• Chazz Palminteri plays Patriarca, with his hooded eyes and glower.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2019
• Delevingne is given little more to do than pout, glower and punch Clive Owen repeatedly.
  — Jillian Selzer, Cosmopolitan, 24 July 2017
• The head honcho glowers across the lacquered conference table, violence in his eyes.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 15 Dec. 2017
• The standout action sequence takes place at an underworld social club where all the gangsters wear crisp black suits and glower in front of white rice-paper walls that double as panels in a comic book.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
• Meanwhile, the eyes in between are capable of widening in pure glee or narrowing into a coy, sinister glower, depending on what’s asked of them.
  — Caroline Framke, Vox, 23 Mar. 2018
• Far from welcoming you in, the Elbphilharmonie glowers imperiously, as if prepared to repel a sneak attack on the Hanseatic League.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Isabelle Fuhrman infuses Dall with an ambiguous glower of ambition that’s scary and human.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Dec. 2021
• The memoir’s title derives from a nickname that Ms. Blair was given in infancy, a reference to a postnatal glower that seemingly wouldn’t quit.
  — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• Channeling his inner Oliver Reed, Izzard glowers with great panache, conveying the festering frustration of a man tired of waiting for his seemingly immortal mother to move on and hand over the crown.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2017
• Bajestani, a convincing Everyman with a charismatic glower, expertly suggests the monster — and the petulant man-child — seething inside the loving, prayerful family man.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• But in the next village, the intense glowers begin anew.
  — Christopher Bagley, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2018
• When Aaron spins Zoey around on the dance floor, Luca glowers in the corner with a bottle of champagne.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The next great glower won’t be found unless someone is willing to look.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2021
• The glower Gregg Popovich gave him could have melted butter in a Minnesota winter.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2021
• Is that what my coworkers used to stare at every day in real life — a pinched, ferocious glower?
  — Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com, 26 Apr. 2022
• The husband and father, Markus, is played by the great Mads Mikkelsen, barely recognizable behind a graying beard and lethal glower.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 13 May 2021
• Chazz Palminteri plays Patriarca, with his hooded eyes and glower.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2019
• Delevingne is given little more to do than pout, glower and punch Clive Owen repeatedly.
  — Jillian Selzer, Cosmopolitan, 24 July 2017
• The head honcho glowers across the lacquered conference table, violence in his eyes.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 15 Dec. 2017
• The standout action sequence takes place at an underworld social club where all the gangsters wear crisp black suits and glower in front of white rice-paper walls that double as panels in a comic book.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
• Meanwhile, the eyes in between are capable of widening in pure glee or narrowing into a coy, sinister glower, depending on what’s asked of them.
  — Caroline Framke, Vox, 23 Mar. 2018
• Far from welcoming you in, the Elbphilharmonie glowers imperiously, as if prepared to repel a sneak attack on the Hanseatic League.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Isabelle Fuhrman infuses Dall with an ambiguous glower of ambition that’s scary and human.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Dec. 2021
• The memoir’s title derives from a nickname that Ms. Blair was given in infancy, a reference to a postnatal glower that seemingly wouldn’t quit.
  — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 17 May 2022

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