bedew

Example Sentences

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“Do not speak so closely to another person with such enthusiasm that you bedew the other man with your spittle,” he said, from a safe distance.

From Washington Times • Sep. 6, 2019

Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2017

It’s a little cooler today, but possibly rainier: Scattered showers may bedew us, with a high of 70.

From New York Times • May 6, 2015

If I had a boy whose hair wouldn’t part in the middle, I should bedew that hair with a parent’s tear, and then giv up the boy.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

Grattan, the author of the constitution of 1782, came in his volunteer uniform to bedew its hearse with his oratoric tears.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin