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

With thee delighted would we stray Where sweet Ayodhyá's groves are gay, Then in the joyous synod view King-making balm thy brows bedew; Our homage to Kauśalyá pay, And hasten on our homeward way.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

“Come down to me––that I may bedew with tears of gratitude your bones!”

From Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)