slathers

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Most are modestly scaled assemblages of wood scraps, unified by slathers of off-white paint.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2022

Sitting in a chair, he slathers his hands with sanitizer before eating from a bowl of popcorn on his lap as text flashes on the screen: “This is Captain Obvious.”

From Washington Post • May 14, 2020

“We worry about anything that impacts our land,” said Simmons, a craggy, genial man who wears pressed trousers and slathers Tabasco sauce on virtually any food bar his morning cereal.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2018

The chief pleasure of this book, though, is Blair’s artwork, which slathers on patterns, scribbles and frantically detailed cross-hatching of various densities, with only a few flashes of light to breathe air into most pages.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2017

Then a memory surfaces—of Dad, that night in the kitchen, wincing as Mother slathers salve on his hands, which are red and blistering—and I know what he must have done.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover