Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel.
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- verb US Simple past tense and past participle of
trowel .
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Examples
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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.
'Pariah' Stands Apart—As Fresh Teen Tale Joe Morgenstern 2012
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He pulled off a piece of the football-shaped baguette, troweled up some of the joint compound, and put it into his mouth.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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He pulled off a piece of the football-shaped baguette, troweled up some of the joint compound, and put it into his mouth.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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The entire house is rendered in hard-troweled, white stucco with sealed concrete floors throughout the ground level.
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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.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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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.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Waking up in heat already torpid to the familiar sound of new concrete being troweled down onto old
BRASIL AS A GIRL Maggie Jochild 2007
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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.
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This stuff must have been troweled on, and her red lipstick.
Weekend in New York Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008
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This stuff must have been troweled on, and her red lipstick.
Archive 2008-05-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008
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