top-dress
Example Sentences
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She opened the show with gold looks - a sequined top, dress and skirt - before introducing colorful crop tops and dresses in various lengths and styles, often decorated with cut-out floral patterns.
From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2019
If a J. C. Penney store's top dress price last year was $5.98, and if there are none made today to sell at that low a price, Penney can only stop selling dresses.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other half-acre was for early potatoes, and he wished to put the manure in the furrow for them, so did not top dress that strip of land.
From Hiram the Young Farmer by Todd, Burbank L.
Look granny! the top dress is just like spider web with dew on it.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Holt, Mathew Joseph
Generally, by using it on wheat and other crops, the farmer will save manure enough to top dress his meadows.
From Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers by Robinson, Solon
