How to Use glass ceiling in a Sentence

glass ceiling

noun
  • Then again, this would be the show to break that glass ceiling.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Know your worth, fight for seat at the table, break the glass ceiling.
    — Meaghan Hanley, refinery29.com, 24 May 2018
  • Is this the year that changes, or have the Stars hit a glass ceiling?
    — The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Clark said that Combs was tenacious and broke glass ceilings.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 27 May 2025
  • Two of these women are no strangers to breaking the glass ceiling.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 27 Sep. 2020
  • For a long time, science has had a glass ceiling against women.
    — Emily Atkin, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • This leaves very few women with a chance of getting close enough to even tap the glass ceiling.
    — Kweilin Ellingrud, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Inside, the glass ceiling and walls make the place seem brighter than the world outside.
    — Greyson Ferguson, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The penthouse features a roof terrace and a glass ceiling which opens to the sky.
    — Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 20 Sep. 2024
  • But there is no more glass ceiling for anyone to break through in Seattle.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The agents also discussed the state of the glass ceiling for women agents.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Don't hide because the world has put labels and boxes and glass ceilings.
    — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
  • LaPolt said with a shrug, noting the glass ceiling would not apply to her.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 6 June 2019
  • And yes, put millions of more cracks in that highest and hardest glass ceiling.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 26 May 2017
  • There's no more talk, as there was in 2016, of glass ceilings and all this stuff.
    — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Thanks for teaching me about the glass ceiling—and then showing me how to swing a hammer.
    — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 25 Mar. 2023
  • In some sectors, the glass ceiling is already starting to crack.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022
  • Sanae Takaichi just broke Japan’s highest glass ceiling.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Things took off from there, and Earhart soon was breaking the highest of glass ceilings.
    — Erin Davis and Brandon Griggs, CNN, 24 July 2019
  • In order to break the glass ceiling, women need to push through their self-doubt in order to rise.
    — Somdutta Singh, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Trujillo believes the way to break the glass ceiling is to have more role models.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2021
  • That’s the glass ceiling O’Neill is breaking.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Whether one or the other was the absolute first to break a glass ceiling could be open to debate.
    — William McDonald, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Not only for the men, but also for the women, because what does glass ceiling mean?
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 5 June 2017
  • Not to steal the glass ceiling metaphor, but to push through boundaries that have been in place for a really long time.
    — Dan Shinaberry, Teen Vogue, 2 June 2018
  • The colors of the sculpture shift and glow as the sun filters through the glass ceiling of the arcade.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 1 July 2025
  • In the rear the sunroom has its original all-glass ceiling and walls that look into the back yard.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2018
  • If the glass ceiling didn't quite break in the 1970s, Beatts threw some big rocks.
    — Hillel Italie, ajc, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Fraser has broken the glass ceiling, but still faces a challenge in avoiding the glass cliff.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The panoramic tents have partial glass ceilings and are fitted out more like hotel suites than tents.
    — Hana Al-Khodairi, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 June 2025

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