ADJ
- personal
- They are driven by a craving for personal glory
- reflected
- She basked in the reflected glory of her daughter's success
- greater
- The force behind all Peter's reforms was the greater glory of the Russian state
- military
- young soldiers keen to win military glory
VERB + GLORY
- cover yourself in/with, get, win
- He covered himself in glory and came home a rich man. (informal) Typical! I do all the work and she gets all the glory
- bring (sb)
- Victory brought them glory, fame and riches
- bask in
- steal, take
- It was 19-year-old David Hagan who stole the points and the glory with a brilliant goal in the closing minutes of the game
GLORY + NOUN
- days
- We remember the team's glory days in the 1960s, when they won the World Cup
PREP
- for/to the ~ of
- They built many churches, great and small, to the glory of God
PHRASES
- a blaze of glory
- It's my last ever tournament and I hope to go out in a blaze of glory!
- sb's moment of glory
- His moment of glory came when he won the Olympic downhill skiing event
ADJ
- full
- You cannot appreciate the bridge's full glory by going over it; it is best viewed from below
- crowning
- The city's crowning glory is its Gothic cathedral
PHRASES
- in all her/his/its/their glory
- Autumn is the time to see the beech woods in all their glory
- restore sth to its former glory
- The eighteenth-century building has been restored to its former glory