How to Use inglorious in a Sentence

inglorious

adjective

• After that inglorious start, sterling defense altered the course of the game for the Sox in the top of the third.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• Crab bait is an inglorious end for cod that, when swimming free in the Bering Sea, are predators — not prey — of the snow crab.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
• The result was inglorious, easy to overlook: A foul ball straight back.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2019
• And the final, inglorious end to the Tigers’ decade-long renaissance.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2017
• What an inglorious way to go out for the most clutch kicker in NFL history.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2019
• The crack was an apparent nod to the 49ers’ inglorious recent history in the round.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2023
• The Spurs had a five-game winning streak halted in inglorious fashion.
  — Raul Dominguez, The Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2017
• Fett returned for one of the most inglorious deaths in all of Star Wars, ending up in the belly of the Sarlacc pretty much by accident.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021
• None would shed tears over an inglorious U.S. retreat from Afghanistan.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2021
• These and other inglorious tales all become the basis for episodes.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2020
• Despite their inglorious exit against Dallas last year, the team did win 64 games.
  — Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
• So far in 2022, metro Phoenix has had the inglorious distinction of leading all large cities in inflation.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2022
• Over the past five seasons, the teams have shared the league’s worst record, 22-59, and a major factor in that inglorious mark has been draft-day decisions that proved worthy of those famous boos.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• Wade Miley's past should not be forgotten, but his hideous present is now too inglorious to ignore.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2019
• The Patriots made a quick and inglorious exit from the playoffs on Saturday, weeks before the pace will pick up in Fort Myers.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• The Spurs, meanwhile, suffered one of their more inglorious defeats.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Dec. 2021
• Still don’t quite understand the choice of Dave Hakstol as coach, not after his inglorious run of three-plus seasons behind the Flyers bench.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
• Every day is a chance for something to go catastrophically wrong — and for someone to take the inglorious fall.
  — Jeff Nesbit, Time, 9 June 2017
• The wreck at Loring was a suitably inglorious end to a notorious ship.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2022
• Both the Biden administration and the U.S. will pay a price for the mix of strategic fecklessness and tactical bungling that brought a 20-year stalemate to this inglorious end.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2021
• The epilogue comes in the form of uncontrollable violence and an inglorious end for the country’s leader.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
• Entering the weekend, the Bruins were closing in on an inglorious streak.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2022
• Her defeat this year also came with the inglorious honor of having spent the most money per vote – at least among Texas hottest congressional races – to then go on and lose.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 7 Dec. 2020
• By the time Prescott approached the lectern Sunday evening, about an hour and 15 minutes had elapsed since his season reached its inglorious conclusion, and the emotions were still fresh, sore and visceral.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• The few scientists who did take up the inglorious mantle, however, quickly found a wealth of lore to uncover.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
• So a low Metacritic score isn't fatal, nor is an inglorious chart number.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2019
• Hollywood has been trying to wrestle Stephen King’s fantasy book series into film form for years now, and this is the inglorious end (for now) of that struggle.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 3 Aug. 2017
• But in the right atmosphere, if the temperature is hot enough, a diamond will burn into inglorious ash.
  — Frank Wilczek, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
• Hours of speculation about Trump’s body language and static shots of planes and cars as the former president moves about the world, in all their inglorious lack of newsworthiness, are back.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• Fewer know the beer-spewing moment a TV camera lingers upon a friend, or relative, on inglorious display, with feathers, horns, dogface, or fur; clad as pirate, or leprechaun, feisty in top-hat and tails.
  — Tim Kelleher, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024