Example Sentences

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Just down the street from my family’s Venice home, workers are smoothing plaster inside a 6,000-square-foot new house whose owners, a young couple from the Bay Area, will soon have a property worth $7 million.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2023

The last steps for Rosenthal are smoothing his delivery and honing his release point, said Tejera, who has been through Tommy John himself.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2019

Steady rewards of carrots and apples, reportedly, are smoothing the creatures' way toward their appearance on the McCaw Hall stage.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2011

His art is nothing but delightful cozenage, whose rules are smoothing and guarded with perjury; whose scope is to make men fools in teaching them to overvalue themselves, and to tickle his friends to death.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

The kinks and creases of me are smoothing out.

From The Belted Seas by Colton, Arthur Willis