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Example sentences for "glut"

Lexicographically close words:
glum; glume; glumes; glumly; glumm; glutaric; gluteal; gluten; gluteus; glutinous
  1. Owing to a glut of fish, some herring were selling so low as £6 per last.

  2. There was a glut of herring, and prices “ruled low.

  3. What he takes for a glut is a deficiency.

  4. He exclaims that there is a glut in the market.

  5. Availing themselves of an early opportunity to glut their hate, a party of them stole into the settlement of Berne, where they surprised and made prisoner of the Captain in his own house.

  6. The torture is then resorted to, to glut their vengeance.

  7. Is not this secret rule, made to kindle or glut the wildest ambition, as it reaches from the cradle to the grave, from the laborer's hovel to the royal palace, from palace to the papal chair?

  8. Will you glut surely, largely, safely--the hate which devours your heart, for all the evil done you?

  9. Then will I sit and glut me on those eyes Wherewith my life my eyes could never fill.

  10. At the close of that War the traders of Great Britain determined, even at a temporary loss to themselves, to glut our market with their goods and thus break down forever, as they hoped, our infant manufactures.

  11. My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.

  12. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

  13. The result was that in a little while the thing was overdone: there was a glut in the market, often attended by panic, stagnation and disaster.

  14. When there is a glut in the market, Jonathan, you know what happens.

  15. Believers in the glut theory usually condemn efforts to encourage frugality among the masses, calling it the "fallacy of saving.

  16. How often I have heard him say to me, while his image kept leaping above me: "Go ahead, glut yourself upon this imbecile body, upon this unclean body which I defiled!

  17. If thou wilt glut thy loving heart with blood, Encounter with the lion or the bear, And (like a wolf) prey not upon a lamb.

  18. Ay, till[257] my too much love did glut his thoughts, And make him seek for change.

  19. It was done simply to glut spite and to make a dreaded enemy feel his captors' power.

  20. And thou among them shalt be slain, if thou hast the heart to await my long spear, which shall rend thy lily skin, and thou shalt glut with thy fat and flesh the birds and dogs of the Trojans, falling among the ships of the Achaians.

  21. Surely shall many a Trojan likewise glut dogs and birds with fat and flesh, fallen dead at the ships of the Achaians.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; allay; bellyful; choke; cloy; congestion; cram; crowd; devour; drench; excess; fatigue; fill; flood; fullness; glut; gobble; gorge; gulp; guzzle; jade; jam; load; overburden; overcharge; overdose; overflow; overload; overweight; pack; pall; plethora; profusion; raven; repletion; sate; satiate; satisfaction; satisfy; saturate; saturation; skinful; slake; soak; stall; stuff; superfluity; surcharge; surfeit; surplus; tire; wear; weary; wolf