Sample sentences for GLOSS OVER

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treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly — especially to cover up something that is bad

Yet this Fremen reaction and the obvious element of the Arrakeen diet high in spice were glossed over by Bene Gesserit observers.
Frank Herbert -- Dune

Let us be frank and not gloss over words.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
It was exactly as if they had both had at heart to gloss over any recent little friction.
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
I have not glossed over matters for policy's sake, for I fear we have already gone too far in that sort of thing.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
Seeking to gloss over the sticky moment, he said, "We've just been checking the last-minute stuff, Griphook.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
As she talked about Peter, I had the disturbing thought that maybe he was one suspect we had glossed over too quickly.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
I glossed over the beginning, skipping the motorcycles and the voices, but telling her everything else right up to today's misadventure.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
But Levin, as he talked to his brother, was continually looking round at Vronsky, trying to think of something to say to him to gloss over his rudeness.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
She did not attempt to gloss over facts, as so many might have been tempted to do, but went straight to the point with an admirable candour.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
She told them, specifically, and didn't gloss over her fear.
Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
From my insider's vantage point, I recognized the attempts to gloss over the real reasons these dogs were back on the market.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
I saw us as equals, but in doing so, perhaps I glossed over the things she could not overlook.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Her way of glossing over the transaction with Trenor he regarded at once as a tribute to his own acuteness, and a confirmation of his suspicions.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
I've gone through this before with others and have usually been able to gloss over awkward moments.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Or A Highly Biased and Selective History of Hogwarts, Which Glosses Over the Nastier Aspects of the School.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
However, my dear, I may have glossed over an item that was extremely helpful in negotiations with my client.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
He once asked me to tell him about my African trip and I simply glossed over it.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
And though he was smiling faintly, Laila sensed something troubled and wounded beneath, disappointment and defeat glossed over with a veneer of good humor.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
In their autobiographies, they recounted great races in intimate detail, but falls and injuries were glossed over with the most perfunctory language.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit

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