How to Use gloss over in a Sentence

gloss over

phrasal verb
Definition of gloss overnext
  • 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
  • Trump’s lies about having won that election in a landslide are indefensible, but glossing over them is a price Vance has been willing to pay for his political career.
    — The Editors, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And perhaps Serebrennikov wanted to avoid the same disenchantment, which is why his film glosses over many of the more troubling incidents that Carrère’s book outlines.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024
  • 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
  • But as much as the film portrays the impressive way Reeve dealt with adversity and became an activist for the paralyzed community, the movie doesn’t gloss over Reeve’s life before the accident.
    — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2024
  • As demonstrated by their texts, the curators reveled in the kind of concrete, detailed information about textiles that more general modernists tend to gloss over.
    — K. L. H. Wells, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024

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