How to Use inglorious in a Sentence

inglorious

adjective
  • These and other inglorious tales all become the basis for episodes.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The Spurs had a five-game winning streak halted in inglorious fashion.
    — Raul Dominguez, The Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Those who will paint this as an inglorious sign-off to an inglorious career aren’t looking hard enough.
    — Jack Lang, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
  • After that inglorious start, sterling defense altered the course of the game for the Sox in the top of the third.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Wade Miley's past should not be forgotten, but his hideous present is now too inglorious to ignore.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2019
  • And the final, inglorious end to the Tigers’ decade-long renaissance.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2017
  • So a low Metacritic score isn't fatal, nor is an inglorious chart number.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2019
  • Crab bait is an inglorious end for cod that, when swimming free in the Bering Sea, are predators — not prey — of the snow crab.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The Spurs, meanwhile, suffered one of their more inglorious defeats.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Despite their inglorious exit against Dallas last year, the team did win 64 games.
    — Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • What an inglorious way to go out for the most clutch kicker in NFL history.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Every day is a chance for something to go catastrophically wrong — and for someone to take the inglorious fall.
    — Jeff Nesbit, Time, 9 June 2017
  • The wreck at Loring was a suitably inglorious end to a notorious ship.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The crack was an apparent nod to the 49ers’ inglorious recent history in the round.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2023
  • The few scientists who did take up the inglorious mantle, however, quickly found a wealth of lore to uncover.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
  • Entering the weekend, the Bruins were closing in on an inglorious streak.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2022
  • But in the right atmosphere, if the temperature is hot enough, a diamond will burn into inglorious ash.
    — Frank Wilczek, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Such inglorious bastardizations don't sit well with the actual footage of the camps shown subsequently.
    — NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The epilogue comes in the form of uncontrollable violence and an inglorious end for the country’s leader.
    — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
  • Beyond his inglorious past, though, Hegseth and his Quantico speech should not be dismissed merely as meme fodder.
    — Arman Khan, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
  • The loss of this course is also a loss to those white students who want to learn the history of America in all its glorious and inglorious moments.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2024
  • Their recent reckoning with their own inglorious pasts gives them the unique credibility to warn China not to make the same mistake.
    — Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
  • So far in 2022, metro Phoenix has had the inglorious distinction of leading all large cities in inflation.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2022
  • Her defeat this year also came with the inglorious honor of having spent the most money per vote – at least among Texas hottest congressional races – to then go on and lose.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 7 Dec. 2020
  • One was needed with a narrow temperature range; in Helm’s case, inglorious British maritime.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Fett returned for one of the most inglorious deaths in all of Star Wars, ending up in the belly of the Sarlacc pretty much by accident.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Costner's character was killed off in the opening moments of the back half of Season 5 with an inglorious, bloody bathroom gunshot death made to look like a suicide.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Still don’t quite understand the choice of Dave Hakstol as coach, not after his inglorious run of three-plus seasons behind the Flyers bench.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Hollywood has been trying to wrestle Stephen King’s fantasy book series into film form for years now, and this is the inglorious end (for now) of that struggle.
    — Richard Lawson, HWD, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Despite the inglorious ending, the Chi-Chi’s brand lived on through a decidedly mediocre jarred salsa available at grocery stores.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 5 Mar. 2026

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