How to Use glen in a Sentence

glen

noun
  • Cross the grassy little glen sliced by the creek feeding the lake and return to your starting point.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 8 June 2018
  • There’s a spot called Glen Maye, which has a huge waterfall and then you down this glen to the beach.
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • One of the perfume’s most distinctive scents is clary sage, which will remind you of a walk through a peaceful glen in springtime.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 June 2022
  • The research center lies in a secluded glen of hardwoods and sunlit meadows.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a glen running through the GlenPharmer distillery property, which used to be a mill.
    — Gary Dzen, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • The Arizona Trail continues south through meadows and aspen glens.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
  • Its original name was Glenbrook, in homage to the property’s protected glen and the brook that flows through it.
    — David Caraccio, sacbee, 19 July 2017
  • Pause for lunch, then drift through fishing villages, beaches and glens that define Donegal’s rugged character.
    — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 13 May 2026
  • Many consider Glen Coe to be one of the most beautiful glens, or valleys, in Scotland.
    — Sarah Theeboom, GQ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Beyond the loch itself, guests can head out on foot to explore the hills and glens of The Trossachs National Park.
    — Irenie Forshaw, The Week Uk, theweek, 25 June 2024
  • Powers, a cult figure to some, a national treasure to others, walked down a path of wood chips into a shaded glen that narrowed then opened, rolled then flattened.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • To reach the mine, visitors have to dodge grazing cattle and navigate a narrow road that cuts through an imposing glen skirting a lively river.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Inchlonaig itself is located at the northern end of the lake and is surrounded by the hills and glens of the Southern Highlands.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 7 June 2023
  • The two-story home, set on half an acre at the end of a cul-de-sac in a wee glen in the Coldwater Canyon area, was built in 1957.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Lubber Run has hosted live music since 1969, when the first stage was erected in a glen of this Arlington park.
    — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
  • And then there’s Bridges in a blue, glen-check suit, still repping his Villanova colors alongside Jalen Brunson.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 15 June 2018
  • Lubber Run has hosted live music since 1969, when the first stage was erected in a glen of this shady Arlington park.
    — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The glen runs straight through the distillery in an earth-floor warehouse, granting it instant exposure to its naturally abundant environment.
    — Brianna Kamienski, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • Wagons had to haul all this material through the muddy fens and glens of the Scotch lowland to an assembly point just beyond bowshot range on the plain below the castle wall.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
  • Sets are as diverse as ice pirates in snowmobiles and a Coast Guard station with lighthouse to a mystical fairy glen and Mars research vehicle.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian, 3 Dec. 2019
  • This gentle love story set in a forest glen was written for a low female voice and a castrato, a male singer castrated as a child to preserve his ability to produce the high, pure notes of a boy soprano.
    — Marina Harss, New York Times, 2 May 2017
  • When the weather shows off, though, there's nothing more remarkable than a sunrise peeping over a Scottish glen or the sun setting behind Edinburgh Castle.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
  • The tribe’s happiness is interrupted when representatives of a more advanced civilization encroach on their glen, kicks them off the land, and proceeds to use it for a bronze-mining operation.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Encompassing sport coats with meaty lapels, neckerchiefs and glen-plaid topcoats, the clothes have a palpable ’70s look to them, and were introduced inside a Milanese vintage store alongside decades-old pieces.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 20 June 2022
  • Her outfit stayed inside Browne’s gray suit vocabulary, layering a glen-check blazer with strong shoulders layered over a matching waist panel and pleated detail at the hip, finished with the brand’s red-white-blue grosgrain tab at the hem.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • In less than 10 minutes, a wooden bridge deposits us on the doorstep of a cinematic landscape that unfurls into a seemingly endless patchwork of rolling hills and glens in hues of umber, cinnamon, and ochre, flanked by mountains standing sentinel on either side.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Roughly paralleling Woody Mountain Road, the meandering single track holds steady at around 7,100 feet, sweeping easily through wildflower meadows and shady glens.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 5 July 2018
  • This multifaceted gem traces the north flanks of 9,018-foot Little Elden Mountain through a mix of mixed-conifer woodlands, aspen glens, sunny meadows and a variety of blooming plant communities.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 18 July 2019
  • Rebuilt after a fire 50 years ago, the resort today is rustic, a collection of 30 or so one-bedroom wooden cabins situated in a glen along the Sol Duc River in the shadow of the Olympic mountain range.
    — Reid Wilson, idahostatesman, 22 July 2017
  • The eldest of Scotland’s two national parks, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, is centered around Great Britain’s largest freshwater lake, Loch Lomond, alongside the mountains, forests, and glens of the Trossachs.
    — Andrea Bussell, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2026

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