slathers

Example Sentences

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One room of the show is wallpapered in a printed motif of enormous leaves, smeared here and there with giant slathers of fecal brown paint, on which paintings hang.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022

In a video uploaded to her Instagram on Thursday, she slathers Pantene Pro V on her head and demonstrates how stubborn her hair do is.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2021

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

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

She squeezes out the last bit of Aquaphor from an old tube, slathers what’s left onto all her chafed spots, and then covers them with Band-Aids.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti