gild
Example Sentences
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Mr. Armitage does not gild this realization; he lets it stand, stark and unresolved.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
You can futz with the bread, you can gild the cheese, but if the core is bland or watery or vaguely funereal, the whole enterprise collapses.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025
“The challenge of it was to try to go to that place but not gild the lily too much,” Scott says.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2024
If you feel you need to gild the lily, then keep working.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2023
He would sing the glory of Hrothgar’s line and gild his wisdom and stir up his men to more daring deeds, for a price.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Vocabulary lists containing gild
Animal Farm
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Grendel
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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