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GLASS IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enclose with glass
Example:
glass in a porch
Synonyms:
glass; glass in
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "glass in" is one way to...):
close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
And does my hair look very bad? said Meg, as she turned from the glass in Mrs. Gardiner's dressing room after a prolonged prink.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I broke my glass in going round the table to shake hands with him, and I said (in two words)
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
To our venerable benefactor Mr. Laurence I leave my purple box with a looking glass in the cover which will be nice for his pens and remind him of the departed girl who thanks him for his favors to her family, especially Beth.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
After feeling very hot and uncomfortable for some time, and after a good deal of blushing, stammering, and denying, I said, having my glass in my hand, Well!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I had a vague sensation of being, as it were, on view, when the maid opened it; and of wavering, somehow, across a hall with a weather-glass in it, into a quiet little drawing-room on the ground-floor, commanding a neat garden.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Having uttered which, with great distinctness, she begged the favour of being shown to her room, which became to me from that time forth a place of awe and dread, wherein the two black boxes were never seen open or known to be left unlocked, and where (for I peeped in once or twice when she was out) numerous little steel fetters and rivets, with which Miss Murdstone embellished herself when she was dressed, generally hung upon the looking-glass in formidable array.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
