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
If I had a boy whose hair wouldn’t part in the middle, I should bedew that hair with a parent’s tear, and then giv up the boy.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
And when she goes down to the grave in death, he will bedew her grave with the honorable tears of manly feeling.
From The Child at Home The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
