troweled

• “The entire house is rendered in hard-troweled, white stucco with sealed concrete floors throughout the ground level.”

  Vanguard Way House by Morrison Seifert Murphy

• “He pulled off a piece of the football-shaped baguette, troweled up some of the joint compound, and put it into his mouth.”

  Simon & Schuster: Day of Honey

• “And just in case those ironies aren't strong enough, a couple of music cues are troweled on: Helen Morgan singing "What Wouldn't I Do for That Man?" over shots of an ardent Braun, and Noël Coward singing "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" as the camera pulls up, Google Earth-like before its time, from an aerial photograph of Berlin that widens into a panorama of all of Europe.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Pariah' Stands Apart—As Fresh Teen Tale

• “Once the invert was poured, troweled smooth, and cured for two weeks under a spray of water, it was covered over with a layer of dirt to provide a roadway for trucks delivering concrete for the sidewalls.”

  Simon & Schuster: Colossus

• “Waking up in heat already torpid to the familiar sound of new concrete being troweled down onto old”

  BRASIL AS A GIRL

• “Fortunately Lasker has the astute eye to set off a green squiggle nicely against a pink one, and, in "The Value of Pictures," the nimble hand to concoct a troweled yellow rectangle.”

  Newsweek: The Soho Scene Lights Up

• “This stuff must have been troweled on, and her red lipstick.”

  Archive 2008-05-01

• “A solid layer needed to be troweled off, which carved a necessary fifteen minutes from my potential “wandering the block” time.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Almost Archer Sisters

• “The strength of the show was arguably its vigorous landscapes -- cliffs and ambiguous caverns in which troweled-on paint became an equivalent for rock itself -- while hunting scenes reinforced our sense of Courbet as a chest-beating Hemingway type.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Mesmerizing Museums

• “Yesterday we saw the concrete dye-wash work of the guy who poured the great room floor and hand-troweled the expansion joints into it.”

  Archive 2007-11-01

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