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

He next twisted the heavy gyves round and round, and partly by main strength, partly by a dexterous and well-applied jerk, sapped asunder the central link by which they were attached to the padlock.

From Jack Sheppard A Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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 Vogel, Nancy

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

It is my opinion, based on experiment, that a well-applied screw is quite equal to the paddle-wheel for giving out the power by which it is itself driven, that is, in smooth water.

From Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Rainey, Thomas