Used in a Sentence

glenn

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for glenn.

Editorial note

I find it amusing that the article is so quick to assign a quote to Glenn Beck, just because they cannot verify his one attribution.

Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A male given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular in the middle of the 20th century.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of glenn gathered in one view.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular in the middle of the 20th century.

noun

A surname from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Glen.

noun

An unincorporated community in Glenn County, California, United States.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for glenn.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular in the middle of the 20th century.

noun

A surname from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Glen.

noun

An unincorporated community in Glenn County, California, United States.

noun

An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Heard County, Georgia, United States.

Example sentences

1

I find it amusing that the article is so quick to assign a quote to Glenn Beck, just because they cannot verify his one attribution.

2

Consider, in particular, the quote on the linked page that's attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but was (apparently) coined by Glenn Beck.

3

The project founders Glenn and Riccardo are giving an SKF workshop at the Devopsdays Amsterdam, if you're there come and say hi!

4

I once challenged Glenn Greenwald as to how he could be confident his copy of the documents hadn't been hacked.

5

The title makes it sound like Glenn Greenwald is saying sorry - I don't see anything like that in there.

6

My second cousin Glenn Thobe speaks better Russian than Vladimir Lenin.

7

I can't help but wonder if there is a dusty film in someone's basement of Alan Turing swing-dancing to Glenn Miller in front of Bletchley Park sometime in the early 1940s.

Quote examples

1

If you cross Murray from "Flight of the Chonchords" with Glenn Beck, you'll have a pretty good idea of who the guy is.

2

Glenn Greenwald's reaction to the article: "That Sun Times article is filled with so many factual errors- demonstrable ones- along w/the worst journalism.

3

> David Miranda, the boyfriend of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, was seized at Heathrow in 2013 in possession of 58,000 “highly classified” intelligence documents after visiting Snowden in Moscow.

4

Oh please, comparing a few billion distributed over years and years in government projects to the multi-hundred-billion-dollar-a-year oil cartel is shameful "journalism." There's no science in this opinion piece, it's just Glenn Beck style arrow graph tin foil hat nonsense.

Proper noun examples

1

Glenn Goodrich pens a tutorial on using Kiba, a lightweight ETL framework written in Ruby.

2

Glenn and Laura travel to the United States frequently for speeches, and interviews.

3

Glenn Beck) who wants to bypass your bullshit detector by attaching an authority figure to the bullshit they're trying to pass off as important, relevant, or supportive of their view.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use glenn in a sentence?

I find it amusing that the article is so quick to assign a quote to Glenn Beck, just because they cannot verify his one attribution.

What does glenn mean?

A male given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular in the middle of the 20th century.

What part of speech is glenn?

glenn is commonly used as noun.