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  • verb US Present participle of trowel.

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Examples

  • Look for some variant of a snarky Fox News trash-troweling show.

    First on the Ticker: Palin will not run for re-election 2009

  • A short haircut cannot conceal her sex, nor can all the bindings in the world, nor, apparently, a generous troweling of makeup.

    'Man on a Ledge' Does a Balancing Act John Anderson 2012

  • Only one small trench remains, a bending figure troweling rapidly within.

    GRAVE CONCERNS • by Oscar Windsor-Smith 2009

  • Maybe five year olds, the ones troweling up dirt, practicing the long-forgotten art of making mud pies, daring each other to snort an earthworm for that Annelida high.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Paul 2010

  • Then he opened up his speedboat and rocketed across the bay, troweling a wide arc by the pilings under the highway, sliding across his own wake, his profile as pointed and cool as a hood ornament.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • Then he opened up his speedboat and rocketed across the bay, troweling a wide arc by the pilings under the highway, sliding across his own wake, his profile as pointed and cool as a hood ornament.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • Then he opened up his speedboat and rocketed across the bay, troweling a wide arc by the pilings under the highway, sliding across his own wake, his profile as pointed and cool as a hood ornament.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • Maybe five year olds, the ones troweling up dirt, practicing the long-forgotten art of making mud pies, daring each other to snort an earthworm for that Annelida high.

    "The Garden" by James Dorr (Damnation Books) Paul 2010

  • Then he opened up his speedboat and rocketed across the bay, troweling a wide arc by the pilings under the highway, sliding across his own wake, his profile as pointed and cool as a hood ornament.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • The latrine, being provenience oriented, requires more meticulous troweling than plowzone units.

    2009 Field Report 2 « Interactive Dig Johnson's Island – Unlocking a Civil War Prison 2009

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