powdering
Example Sentences
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Beyond serving customers at the counter, I also worked in the back, finishing donuts through tasks like jelly filling, frosting and powdering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Did you know that pink tights and shoes were not allowed at Dance Theater, and that “pancaking” — powdering your shoes with makeup — was the norm before skin tone shoes were made?
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
Veronika Electronika told a Facebook Live audience, powdering her forehead in the glow of her ring light.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022
Native peoples had been growing it for medicinal and ritual purposes for centuries before European contact, smoking it in pipes or powdering it to use as snuff.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
In fact she had powdered herself into an otherworldly pallor, which she now tried to fix by powdering herself even more.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
