Glass in sentence

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He collected glass bottles for a living.

Four in the morning on a school day, we'd throw the glass bottles in the back of his van, and the bottles would break.

When a drop of food coloring is dropped into a glass of water, we instinctively know that the coloring will drift out from the drop, eventually filling the glass.

There is the thickest and most incredibly well-documented glass ceiling in the STEM industries.

MB: Who doesn't love a glass of champagne, right?

We can pretend this is a Swiss army knife with different tools in it, and one of the tools is kind of like a magnifying glass or a GPS for our DNA, so it can home in on a certain spot.

Or had a server refuse to bring you a glass of wine?

And borosilicate glass, as you know, is very strong, and if you break borosilicate rods just so and melt them at just the right temperature, we ended up with this new material, this new cast glass which took us about two years to make.

And here you see the building going up, 2,000 steel nodes, 9,000 pieces of steel, 7,800 stone pieces, 10,000 cast glass pieces, all individual shapes, the entire superstructure all described, engineered, fabricated with aerospace technology, prefabricated machine to machine, robotically, a huge team effort, you can imagine, of literally hundreds, and within three percent of our $30 million budget set in 2006.

So that's an actual solar glass roof.

Solar glass tiles where you can adjust the texture and the color to a very fine-grained level, and then there's sort of microlouvers in the glass, such that when you're looking at the roof from street level or close to street level, all the tiles look the same whether there is a solar cell behind it or not.

If you were to look at it from a helicopter, you would be actually able to look through and see that some of the glass tiles have a solar cell behind them and some do not.

Well after the house has collapsed and there's nothing there, the glass tiles will still be there.

New downtowns sprout towers that are almost always made of concrete and steel and covered in glass.

But worse still, assemblies of glass towers like this one in Moscow suggest a disdain for the civic and communal aspects of urban living.

This is PPG Place, a half acre of open space encircled by commercial buildings made of mirrored glass.

But at ground level, the plaza feels like a black glass cage.

Some recent plazas like Federation Square in Melbourne or Superkilen in Copenhagen succeed because they combine old and new, rough and smooth, neutral and bright colors, and because they don't rely excessively on glass.

Now, I'm not against glass.

In the middle of the 19th century, with the construction of the Crystal Palace in London, glass leapt to the top of the list of quintessentially modern substances.

And along the way, glass became the default material of the high-rise city, and there's a very powerful reason for that.

But glass has a limited ability to be expressive.

It's an intricate, communicative language that an epidemic of glass would simply wipe out.

And imagine if green facades were as ubiquitous as glass ones how much cleaner the air in Chinese cities would become.

And that's an important point, because when glass ages, you just replace it, and the building looks pretty much the same way it did before until eventually it's demolished.

Now, architects can use glass in equally lyrical and inventive ways.

But when a city defaults to glass as it grows, it becomes a hall of mirrors, disquieting and cold.

You can't get in, the car's got bulletproof glass, because it'll blow out the windshield otherwise.

My pastor said you can trap bees on the bottom of mason jars without lids because they don't look up, so they just walk around bitterly bumping into the glass walls.

You know, you've come home from a long day, and you take a glass of wine, and you put your feet up.

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