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I pat it onto salmon filets before I slide them into the oven and sneak it between tightly stacked leaves of cabbage layered into a steamer basket.

Rain was patting the Bermuda grass, and it was the only sound for several miles.

“Good work, Banzi,” Mugianis says, patting the “sometimes” tattoo that adorns her upper back.

Turn the page, and there, in fresh ginghams, would be mom, baking pies with one hand while patting her towhead with the other.

Privately, Britain seems to be patting itself on the back for maintaining its own AAA rating.

Whether all this scanning and probing and patting down is enhancing our collective security is very much in doubt.

Mrs. Gallant was smiling and patting Consuello's hand, which she held in both her own!

The earl, whose arms seemed to have opened readily enough to receive her, was patting her soothingly upon the shoulder.

“Give it me, Jacob,” he said, stooping down and patting his brother.

Where there's smoke there's folk, we thought, patting ourselves on the back for cleverness.

"Our dog and cat like to ride in a train," said Flossie, patting the head of Snap, who was wagging his tail.