Example Sentences

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It’s no longer as if the franchise is anointing the 23-year-old Beal as Wall’s co-star.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2017

And then, just as it sounds like Cavendish is anointing his successor, the man in Tour history is back.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2013

“They get into such a frenzy that the social order breaks down; everyone is anointing with everyone else,” Dr. Lynch Alfaro said.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2012

He calmly permitted it; but His host thought to himself: No, He is no prophet, or He would know who it is that is anointing His feet.

From I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Rosegger, Peter

One of the suggested functions of these glands is anointing the velvet covering of the antlers.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Harper, Francis