How to Use glut in a Sentence

glut

1 of 2 verb
  • The weekend — glutted with prison lock-up shows — is another test.
    — David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Contract the muscles in your upper back, legs, and glutes to raise your arms and legs a few inches off the floor.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health.com, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Thanks to builder strategies, shifting home designs and a new construction glut the trend has flipped.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • That’s even as the market is already glutted, with prices down about 30% in 12 months.
    — Fortune, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Stop when your legs are several inches above the ground and give your abs and glutes an extra squeeze in this position.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 29 Jan. 2019
  • The firm expects to see rent growth pick back up eventually, but says the supply glut needs to work itself out first.
    — Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Batuman is wonderful on the joy of glutting oneself on books.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Government intervention is what got us into this pharma glut in the first place.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Another focused on improbable lunges, one leg held aloft, glutes both bulbous and flexed.
    — Catherine Lacey, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • His late 2025 goal glut with Leeds also came from a stream of strikes down the centre of the penalty area.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Now, thanks largely to those export terminals, the global market is glutted.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Start in high plank position with your hands stacked underneath your shoulders, your core, quads, and glutes engaged, back flat, and your body in one straight line.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The current milk landscape is glutted with options, but only because nobody is happy.
    — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
  • In that case, our oceans could be glutted with rip-roaring cybernetic frogs, Jurassic-Park style.
    — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The internet is glutted with second-by-second countdown clocks and the mania is even spurring a hike in hiring by crypto firms worldwide.
    — Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Because the market is glutted, all buyers can demand purity standards at or near the level China has set.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Launching a new luxury condo tower at a time when the market is glutted with unsold inventory might seem like risky business.
    — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The nation’s courtrooms have been glutted with millions of collection lawsuits, many of which are backed by thin documentation.
    — Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 28 July 2016
  • The Beach is glutted with souvenir shops and rental car outlets, the study found, but lacks auto and household supply stores, bookstores and service stations.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • It’s glutted with supporting characters, and the plot still eddies through a series of clearly episodic incidents.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Press through your toes to lift your knees off the ground and bring your body into a forearm plank position, with your shoulders over your elbows, core tight, glutes squeezed, and your back flat (not arched or rounded).
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 6 Dec. 2018
  • The risotto was impeccably cooked, each grain a plump oval glutted with crab stock and a compound butter infused with ginger, shallot Thai chile and tomato.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
  • When the shale drilling revolution glutted the market with natural gas beginning in 2008, an abundance of power plants were already on hand to put it to use.
    — Jonathan Thompson, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
  • With oil prices around $50 a barrel and production already glutting world markets, few oil companies are making plans to expand into costlier, riskier offshore drilling.
    — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2017
  • The waterway, a critical shipping route, has essentially been closed for the duration of the conflict, causing a supply glut in the oil market that has sent prices skyrocketing.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • With so many new cars rolling out of dealerships lots and instantly becoming used cars, the secondary market is glutted and the pace of depreciation is rapidly accelerating.
    — Kyle Stock, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2017
  • This year, holiday gatherings were scrapped, the single father’s Christmas budget was slashed in half, and his credit cards were glutted from months of futile efforts to keep up with the rising cost of living.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
  • In a story glutted with broad caricatures, Hunt and Liddy are maybe the broadest and perhaps the least inherently sympathetic.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The International Energy Agency and other industry experts forecast a supply glut next year, which has been a drag on prices.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Solar power and electrical charging Solar power glut boosts California electric bills.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024

glut

2 of 2 noun
  • In this case, a glut would bring lower rents.
    — Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • That could mean a glut of cheap, low-yielding debt with few buyers.
    — Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2022
  • This glut was part of the reason that peer review arose in the first place.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The glut may not last, however.
    — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2026
  • No more market gluts that spoil catches or result in mushy frozen filets.
    — Amanda Leland, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • This glut of for-sale homes is pushing prices down in the Nevada city.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • But the glut of water became a problem.
    — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026
  • Builders, facing that supply glut, have had to adjust.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • At the same time, local gluts of homes for sale are a reality.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2026
  • That led to a glut of chips right as customers started cutting orders.
    — Bylionel Lim, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Devine says the glut in supply could be helped if global mill use increases.
    — Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Two, apparently there was a glut of capsicum out in the world.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Fitzgerald called the glut of defensemen a good problem to have.
    — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Given the glut, stockpiled items are selling for bargain prices, if at all.
    — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • That’s a downfall for the current glut of social-justice docs.
    — Armond White, National Review, 23 June 2023
  • The glut of new apartments has led to a decline in prices and favorable lease deals for renters.
    — Molly Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2025
  • That created a supply glut that sent prices tumbling.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • What sets Beast apart from the glut of combat sports films is its refusal to stay inside the cage.
    — Sean Sennett, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026
  • All of a sudden, the Twins have a glut of lefties competing for spots.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The result is a glut of new apartments that could cripple the economy.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The scramble for chips has turned into a glut at an inconvenient time.
    — Jacky Wong, wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a glut of players in the secondary and little depth in the offensive line.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • To me, the bigger risk isn’t job loss but the glut of mediocre content flooding the market.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But when that demand faded, a glut of supply plagued the industry.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Around the world, winemakers are ripping out vines because there is a wine glut as people drink less.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2025
  • All this suggests that the glut may be persistent and perhaps severe.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • And then, of course, there are the other co-working competitors and the glut of sublease space out there.
    — Curbed, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The natural gas market, meanwhile, could soon face a supply glut.
    — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In an attempt to make their wares stand out among the glut, some platforms simply spent more money on them with mixed results.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 6 June 2023
  • Cutting off those exports would not create a neat nationwide glut of cheap fuel.
    — Dan Eberhart, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026

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