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

Bitter springs have barren issues; these bedew grief's arid sands.

From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse Be drops of Balm to sanctify thy head. 2nd Henry IV, act iv, sc.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson