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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spackle.

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Examples

  • Ed, back in his bedroom, listens one final time for some word and hears nothing, so he spackles the last of the holes left from the chimes before he rolls a pleasant Martha Stewart green over the eyes of Jesus with the open hands.

    Sufficient Grace Darnell Arnoult 2006

  • Ed, back in his bedroom, listens one final time for some word and hears nothing, so he spackles the last of the holes left from the chimes before he rolls a pleasant Martha Stewart green over the eyes of Jesus with the open hands.

    Sufficient Grace Darnell Arnoult 2006

  • Loman's grandiosity, which makes him alternately insolent and pathetic to the world at large, spackles over his disappointment with himself and his feckless sons.

    The New Yorker 2009

  • For example, Zeke spackles at the same time as he paints (gotta wait a day for the spackle to dry), he paints unwashed walls (a no no as far as paint adhesion goes--need that TSP to roughen up the old paint and to get any greasy hand prints off), and he doesn't cut in, just starts painting smack dab in the middle of a wall (you do the edges first, particularly the edges where the walls and ceiling meet or where there is trim).

    Archive 2005-11-01 Kate 2005

  • What spackles that boring conveyance is OMG NEW I LOVE THIS PLACE, the intoxicating giddiness of exploring somewhere you’ve never been before.

    Thoughts On The Trip Home That Do Not Involve Skull-Fucking The FAA 2006

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