troweling
- present participle of trowel.
Example Sentences
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You’re basically painting or troweling on a thin layer of limestone.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2022
Immediately, this dynamo of energy fell in love with the slow, methodical process of mixing mortar, troweling, and stacking bricks.
From Salon • Oct. 1, 2019
Working in a hot kitchen, troweling french fries into paper bags, isn’t easy, but a lot of people would consider it easier than helping an adult out of bed and to the toilet.
From Washington Times • Jan. 2, 2019
In one song near the end, “S/word and Leviathan,” he protects his right to go loud, constructing a big, echoey pattern played on a lute, with faraway vocals, then troweling electric guitar on top.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2011
Laborers carried the mortar down the ladders to the masons who would lay the stones on top of each other, troweling a layer of mortar between each stone and each layer of stones.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
