slathers

Example Sentences

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It’s disputed history, for one thing, which means it unnecessarily slathers genre suspense on an already overwrought, cookie-cutter and ideologically ultra-confident biography.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

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

“We worry about anything that impacts our land,” said Simmons, a craggy, genial man who wears pressed trousers and slathers Tabasco sauce on virtually any food bar his morning cereal.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2018

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