How to Use gloss over in a Sentence

gloss over

phrasal verb
  • Flaws like these could be glossed over with enough wit.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025
  • 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 Dolphins have glossed over stuff like this routinely.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • That’s a fact the financial markets appear to be glossing over.
    — Ron Insana, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • In the past, the liberal establishment’s response has been to gloss over the actual instances when things don’t quite add up and point out that the other guys are worse.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • But the parts of her life that were real, like losing a child with Jagger to a miscarriage, were glossed over by friends and ignored by those who wanted an upbeat beauty on the rock star’s arm.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Most of Swift’s fans surely glossed over the section, which provided information less relevant than the book’s cost ($39.99) and release date (in stores on Black Friday and online the next day).
    — Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 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

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