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

After the publication of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," his athletic mind, scholarly and serene, was the first to bedew my hope with a drop of humanity.

From Pulpit and Press by Eddy, Mary Baker

The charming hills that round it rise, Your latest hours, and mine await; And when your Poet Horace dyes; There the deep sigh thy poet-friend shall mourn, And pious tears bedew his glowing urn.

From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Jackson, Wallace