powdering
Example Sentences
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Beyond serving customers at the counter, I also worked in the back, finishing donuts through tasks like jelly filling, frosting and powdering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
“The last thing they need is legislation to endanger them even more,” Electronika said, powdering her cheekbones.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022
The final stages included curling, dying, powdering, and pomades.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2021
Native peoples had been growing it for medicinal and ritual purposes for centuries before European contact, smoking it in pipes or powdering it to use as snuff.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
The sky was dark blue and the mud bore a powdering of frost when Matt pulled himself from the ground.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
