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
  • Of course, in the past, Musk has been known to lean into the flash and somewhat gloss over the substance.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
  • 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
  • This is an important part of the culture that the show doesn’t gloss over or shy away from.
    — Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Before the studios were sold off to Disney, Fox News was glossed over at the pitch-fest.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
  • Mazin chose to use this challenge in Season 2 rather than gloss over it.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Even that stretch seemed to gloss over some of the team’s slow start offensively.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • This is one of the under-the-radar trade ideas that makes a lot of sense, but is often glossed over in favor of the bigger players on the market.
    — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
  • Demian resolved to gloss over the awkwardness by asking whether the princess had come down yet.
    — Nell Zink, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 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
  • The show also glosses over her first singles title, which seemed strange to me, but then there’s a lot to cover in such a life.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
  • That’s a fact the financial markets appear to be glossing over.
    — Ron Insana, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Facts are easy to gloss over and dismiss due to cognitive bias or dissonance.
    — John Hall, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
  • While Korean jelly nails or lavender milk nails are a lot of fun, the best nude nail polishes aren’t to be glossed over.
    — Iman Balagam, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Most gloss over his achievements, figuring that at age 26 he can’t be considered a prospect.
    — Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • 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
  • This calamitous period of his rule is glossed over in the hagiographical accounts of his life.
    — Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2025

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