Example Sentences

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Placed next to the cabinet was a Louis XIV-style armchair that the artist had bathed in gold paint and then stabbed repeatedly, stuffing its wounds with her own hair and that of fellow Chicanas.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

But miles downstream, their way of life became unsustainable on the banks of a polluted river where they had bathed, washed their clothes and fished for their main source of food.

From Reuters • Jan. 12, 2022

After a complaint that I had bathed in a public river near Salt Lake City, I was incarcerated from September 2016 to March 2017.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2021

As I dried off with a T-shirt and got dressed, I remembered how, not so long ago, I had bathed in privacy and peace, in a porcelain claw-foot tub in my own farmhouse.

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2018

The caretaking skills were no doubt those of Fiona, on his left; he remembered noticing the tenderness with which she had bathed the Old.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry