How to Use glutton in a Sentence

glutton

noun

• For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 11 May 2018
• China, the world’s builder, is also the planet’s sand glutton.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 26 June 2019
• This trick works because the human brain is a glutton for stories.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 24 June 2017
• But there's no need to be a glutton for punishment, either.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2022
• Too Much Food Members of the fig genus Ficus tend to be gluttons for fertilizer.
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2016
• Or the glutton who wants to buy all the fish in the market—a symbol of someone who is totally undemocratic.
  — Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• Either that, or the Saint Mary’s basketball coach is a glutton for punishment.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2022
• No, we’ve been told, the state shouldn’t go out of its way to make the disadvantaged whole or bring law and order to an economy controlled by gamblers, gluttons, and cheats.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 3 June 2020
• So why are the 48 percent who prioritize reducing deficits right and the spending gluttons wrong?
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
• There is a deep desire for Gronkowski, a glutton for punishment in his Patriots days, to return to Fort Foxborough.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• Today, if victory were cake, these people would be gluttons.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• Becca, glutton for punishment, shows up in the studio with Chris Harrison.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 7 Mar. 2018
• Betty Draper, as a character, was a glutton for attention, and she was consistently starved of it.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
• The sauce — a glutton’s glorious punishment of pork, pecorino and tomatoes — produces one of the most satisfying dishes on the Roman table.
  — New York Times, 31 July 2019
• Anybody who is a glutton for fairness is probably better off in a profession other than coaching.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• For this plan to work, scientists will need to engineer antibiotic gluttons.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2018
• As befits a maker of rugged action-wear, 5.11 Tactical is a glutton for critical punishment.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2011
• For a former television celebrity who is a glutton for public attention, the decision extends by six months a political starvation diet imposed since January by a social media blackout and his departure from the White House.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021
• In popular lore, Epicurus was patron to gluttons, publicans and brothelkeepers.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• Two brobdingnagian, very physical human beings, gluttons for enjoyment, at a 1,000-person party during Ultra weekend?
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 25 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024