Example Sentences
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She ate more black beans, lathered her scalp with French soap and opted for root perms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
Shinichirō Watanabe's vision marries futuristic visuals with realism, with the series' jazz score treated as something to be felt and then absorbed, like dry skin lathered in shea butter.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025
Before the snow covered the ground, layers of brine, a very high concentration of salty water, were lathered onto the roads to prevent hard layers of snow from becoming hardly packed.
From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022
He patched cracks and holes and lathered on a fresh coat of copper paint.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2022
Coming into the race with an excellent shot at winning, Granville fumed, stormed, and lathered through the post parade and bounced and shimmied in the starting gate.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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