smooth
Example Sentences
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“I thought it was important to have this meeting,” Mr. Reardon said in a smooth, silky voice, looking carefully at Mom, then Dad, then Jonah and Katherine, each in turn.
From Literature
She punched and rolled it, over and over, till her arms were floppy and the doughball was smooth.
From Literature
She sat perched on a stool at her workbench, using a smooth stone to grind soil clumps into fine dust as she talked.
From Los Angeles Times
Calm, lawyerly, reasonable, he was the smooth corporation man who made the Mafia professional.
Though they later held meetings to smooth over their differences, the network is again livid following the reauthorization of German agrochemical giant Bayer's dicamba herbicide for sprayed use on genetically modified soybean and cotton.
From Barron's
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