Sentence examples for a gloss of from inspiring English sources

"a gloss of" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically means a thin layer or coating of something. For example, you could say "The car had a gloss of mud on its bumper after driving through the muddy field."

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Front-loading even acquired a gloss of political correctness.

A gloss of sweat materialized on his fingertips.

Ms. King has since added a gloss of contemporary Nashville to her spice rack.

References to biology coat these arguments with a gloss of scientific rigor.

It arrived with a gloss of vinaigrette and halved grape tomatoes.

But he had a gloss of sophistication by which Mapplethorpe was fascinated.

That gives the term a gloss of scientific objectivity that, in the context of the EU, is completely bogus.

And I gave a nod to Oregon's truffle crop by finishing the sauce with a gloss of black truffle butter.

This whimsical novel, written pseudonymously by a Dutch novelist, masquerades as the confessions of an Austrian philosophy student whose great accomplishment is a gloss of a gloss of Hegel's Phenomenology.

The 19th century saw anti-Judaic feeling given a gloss of pseudo-science, with the birth of modern racialised antisemitism.

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I think there's been a glossing of the facts.

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