knead
verb (used with object)
to work (dough, clay, etc.) into a uniform mixture by pressing, folding, and stretching.
has kneaded
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present perfectof knead (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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God knows, who has kneaded into me those mad, desperate fancies and crotchets, which perhaps would sit better on a Hero Schabacker, than on an Army-chaplain under him.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
In the obscure fish-worm he sees an agent that has kneaded and leavened the soil like giant hands.
From A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs
The door goes in grumblingly, and makes way for me into the dark passage, which was formerly paved, though now the traffic of soles has kneaded it with earth, and changed it into a footpath.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
God knows, who has kneaded into me those mad desperate fancies and crotchets, which perhaps would sit better on a Hero Schabacker than on an Army-chaplain under him.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
Or the mother, when she has kneaded dough and washed her hands afterwards, will pour a drop or two of the water down the child’s throat.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
