applied
adjective
having a practical purpose or use; derived from or involved with actual phenomena (distinguished from theoretical,opposed to pure).
well-applied
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a word derived from
applied.
Example Sentences
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If you’re not familiar with the common parlance of cosmetics, you might not know that ‘a perfect smokey eye’ is a very nice way to describe a woman’s makeup – glamorous, well-applied, nicely smudged.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2018
Her eyes were blue, her cheeks were shaded carmine; she had a real nose raised above the dead level of her countenance, stuffed artistically, and kept in shape by well-applied stitches.
From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland
The fine network of wrinkles beneath her eyes was almost hidden by a well-applied layer of pancake makeup, and the whole office tingled with the scent of her perfume.
From Four and Twenty Beds by Nancy Vogel
A sudden jerk freed me from his hold, and a well-applied push sent him reeling to the verge of the ditch.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
On January 6, 1853, Dickens was presented with a silver "Iliad" salver and a diamond ring by the people of Birmingham in grateful acknowledgment of his "varied and well-applied talents."
From The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, by Bertram Waldrom Matz
