Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, red tide in the Gulf of Mexico has been killing fish and causing respiratory irritation in southwest Florida, and thick mats of smelly, brown seaweed have coated beaches along the state’s Atlantic coast.

From Washington Times • Jul. 10, 2018

In the intervening years, largely through photo-friendly social media sites like Pinterest and Instagram, they have coated the entire world of baking — and beyond.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2016

At the park's west gate the engine exhaust is so thick that rangers have coated the toll booths with Plexiglas and installed a fresh-air pumping system.

From Time Magazine Archive

The grime shall be removed and the foulness of inference, of surmise, of deliberate and cold-blooded malice, with which centuries of scribblers, idle, fantastic, sensational, or venal, have coated the substance of known facts.

From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Sabatini, Rafael

After cooling to, say, 80� F., the silver sulphate will have coated the pan C about 1 in. thick.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various