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glöd in a sentence

• med glöd och engagemang
  with passion and commitment
• Han rörde om i glöden
  He stirred the embers
• Vinden förde med sig glöd från skogsbranden
  The wind brought with it embers from the forest fire
• En bit glöd hade fallit ner och antänt tidningen
  A small ember ("piece of embers") had fallen down and ignited the newspaper
• En liten glöd hade fallit ner och antänt tidningen
  A small ember had fallen down and ignited the newspaper (just "en glöd" feels less idiomatic, perhaps due to the uncountable sense)
• glöden i hans ögon
  the fire in his eyes

Words built with glöd

• glödhet red-hot
• kärleksglöd amorous passion

Questions

Origin

From Old Swedish glø̄þ, from Old Norse glóð, from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz.

Nearby common words

glöd is number 6,942 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

• 6,938förödelse devastation
• 6,939korsfästa crucify
• 6,940ledamot member
• 6,941vigselring a wedding ring, (US) a wedding band
• 6,943förödande devastating
• 6,944täcke covering
• 6,945avgång resignation, retirement
• 6,946hasch hash, hashish