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

Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.”

From Washington Post

It’s a little cooler today, but possibly rainier: Scattered showers may bedew us, with a high of 70.

From New York Times

On the day they are ordered out to battle, your soldiers may weep, those sitting up bedewing their garments, and those lying down letting the tears run down their cheeks.

From Forbes

Milton, in one of his translations, wrote about a "slender youth, bedewed with liquid odours"; in Eyres's version, the same ephebe is "drenched in Pour Homme", which is mere product placement.

From The Guardian