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
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
In spite of the odour of decomposition, the women go every day to weep near the monuments, and bedew the sad relics of their beloved ones with their tears and with cocoa-nut oil.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon
