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

“The last thing they need is legislation to endanger them even more,” Electronika said, powdering her cheekbones.

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

Going to visit my aunt - my nan's code for "powdering her nose".

From BBC • May 17, 2013

I watched my mother powdering her nose at the kitchen table.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel