Example Sentences

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The doctor expressed serious caution about returning to the fire zone because of the harmful chemicals that are in the ash that is coating the damaged and remaining homes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

Those assertions mean little to growers and residents who say dust is coating their orchards and neighborhoods and that haulers operate unsafely without consequence.

From Washington Times • Oct. 11, 2020

Muth is coating herself with bug spray, preparing for her latest attack on the good doors of Pennsylvania’s 44th state Senate District, covering parts of Berks, Chester, and Montgomery counties.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2018

What “smothering” means in soul-food terms is coating a slow-cooked meat with a blanket of saucy aromatics that end up as gravy — according to chef Carla Hall.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2018

While he is trying to carve an expression of meekness and humility on the face of the dove, Matvey, lumbering about like a bear, is coating with ice the cross he has made of wood.

From The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance