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Sentence Examples The makeup artist has smoothed and buffed the skin of his face, highlighting the wide planes of his cheekbones. Table and bed linens were smoothed out in this late-eighteenth-century linen press. She tangled her fingers in his golden hair, an almost impossible feat considering the short strands were smoothed flat against his head. When you soak the prune in water, it swells up, expanding so that the surface stretches and the wrinkles are smoothed out. The paper was smoothed out, turned over, and marked off with our house of dreams, much like an architect's sketch of a one-story ranch house. It was smoothed out so quickly I couldn't be entirely sure I had actually seen it crease. After cutting the hair, he smoothed the strands with a flat iron, then separated chunks to create a sexy, disheveled look. He wiped a hand over his graying hair and smoothed his lab coat, then cleared his throat. The stone pathway was smoothed out very nicely, and there were steps to sit on and talk. Even when only the front two seats are occupied small road imperfections are smoothed out and even rough roads are dealt with effectively. She shook the twigs, burs, and dead leaves off of her skirt, and smoothed her bodice. Rei stood up, straightened her short blond hair and smoothed the hem of her long blue dress. The original curve was smoothed by reconstruction from fewer Fourier coefficients. After the temporary hitch was smoothed out, the band launched into a hard rocking set of self-penned tunes, as if nothing had ever happened. Much of the edginess, cruelty and complexity of the real Nash is smoothed over in this Hollywood version of his life. Nor does it help that the hero's seemingly insoluble problems are glibly smoothed out in the final scene. He adroitly smoothed over marital difficulties and the couple moved to Germany, where he filed the divorce papers. Time now has smoothed away both the damages of runaway inflation and the hurts of the Kerr dismissal. Our friendship has been strained lately, but I was also hoping that maybe tonight things could be smoothed over once and for all. Mr Purtill also smoothed over staff unrest over the departure of general manager Nigel Gray by telling them their jobs were safe. Show More Sentences Since these hours rely on the availability of volunteers, there are still a few holes, but those should be smoothed over in the coming weeks. The problems are left behind, perhaps marginally smoothed over by their efforts. Richard still got into fights on occasion, but nothing that couldn't be smoothed over. It's surprising how gripes or problems can be smoothed over by the simple gesture of feeding the crew or paying travelling expenses. They were shouting at each other when they left, so I hope things are smoothed out by now. When they were to be used, they were removed from the dowel and smoothed with the smoothing iron when the linen was slightly damp. She smoothed her navy blue plaid uniform skirt and hugged her jacket around herself tightly. But Keynes smoothed over the harsh Marxist anti-individualism with artful sophistry and clever rhetoric into something salable to Americans. I smoothed my white blouse and searched for hair stuff on the vanity table. Her brows furrowed together in surprise, before she carefully smoothed them out and assumed a blank expression. The prophetess smoothed the front of her skirt, absent-mindedly removing a tiny speck of dust. Then the end of the acromion is shaved off, and the undersurface is smoothed with a little buzz saw. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins like stones smoothed by a river. Reaching for my hairbrush, I smoothed the front of my hair, and pinched my cheeks until I could see a bit of color. In the course of time, the callus is smoothed off and eventually the bone returns to its normal thickness. Surfaces can be smoothed down by rasps, files, and rifflers or by carborundum and emery, and the addition of water avoids a build-up of dust. Libby quickly straightened her hair and smoothed out the blanket across her lap. She gave a smile, walked over to her son and smoothed out his tie and straightened his jacket. The Chantilly cream can now be smoothed or piped over the topping of the pie. Turning, she smoothed the barely rumpled covers and made her bed with hospital corners that her mother had expected and would have been proud of. Show More Sentences She helped it over his head and smoothed the material over his broad pectoral muscles. She smoothed down her pencil skirt and walked to an empty table consciously. He smoothed back his disheveled coal-black hair as he tried to catch his breath. He has smoothed out a whole range of peculiar collocations and syntactical anomalies in order to make the translation flow. The head was shaped with a bow saw, then rasped, filed, and smoothed like the shaft. All the corners and edges of the Gamma Pad are smoothed and the mousing surface is flat and free of defects. This clay was formed into a pot, mainly by building it up from layers of rings which are smoothed together by hand or on a wheel. Summer smoothed out the creases in the paper and began to read what it said. First, we developed a smoothed series based on an inverse Fourier transform of the reference series. The whirlpool rippled outwards, smoothed itself out and revealed a picture of Holly in a cute miniskirt and a crop top. The slight hills and dips in the fields became the crumples of a quilt not completely smoothed down. The older man smoothed out the cuffs of his sleeves and leaned against his desk. Edges can be smoothed, cupcake, and wine choices are why we have sommeliers. His highly crafted paintings consist of 30 to 50 smoothed and sanded coats of oil, graphite and pigment layered over gessoed wood. The whole float is then given two coats of cellulose sealer and smoothed over with flour grade glasspaper. She dared me to go for some red lipstick, so I smoothed some chapstick on, then glided the blood-red stuff onto my lips. He laid a shaking hand on his son's forehead, then smoothed the black hair that was now streaked with gray at the temples. Floating on the water was a large raft, made of smoothed logs, fastened together and topped with roughly hewn planks. When turns need to be smoothed out and slowed down, get a large slow board, slightly wide and thick, with rounded or egg rails. We moved it and smoothed it out and provided just-in-time delivery, much like you do in the civilian sector. Show More Sentences The operational kinks get smoothed out on this second day of the Australian Nationals both at my end and at headquarters. Maura quickly smoothed down her gray pleated skirt and pulled up her school knee-highs. I smoothed some minor wrinkles from my blue blouse as I looked myself up and down. Granger causality tests were then conducted on the smoothed data to determine the direction of causality. We then calculated the residuals, the difference between each interval's extinction intensity and its lowest smoothed value. They are even being made now with special smoothed and lightened actions for the cowboy shooters wanting to score well. The trailing edge smoothed out well and the excess plastic flash just fell off. She smoothed her plaid skirt, adjusting any wrinkles or valleys that had been created. She smoothed out the long skirt of her gown and waited for Thomas to stand. The rise of central banks stabilized the banking system and smoothed the growth of the money supply. Cracks appearing on the surface are smoothed with strips of cloth, and fresh application of clay. After gathering my belongings, I let my hair down and smoothed it out after applying a little liner and lip gloss. Despite a somewhat argumentative meeting with my boss on Friday, things smoothed out in the end so I'll have a good reference. The next day I placed the figure upright on a piece of 400 grit sandpaper and smoothed out the rough surface of the putty. The sharp edges, corners and points have been rounded off and smoothed away. This is a pile of brick fragments smoothed by water so that they look more like rounded stones than building blocks. I muttered darkly, not liking the fact that he so easily smoothed my ruffled feathers. All spectra were smoothed 10 times using a fixed bandwidth, sharp cutoff, three-point, low-pass linear digital filter. Parker sadly noted the silvery tear tracks as he smoothed out her lustrous hair. Recently, we've smoothed out some minor kinks she had in her takeaway and the top of the backswing. Show More Sentences Instead she smoothed her hair with her hand, calming the dishevelled tangles and knots, and walked back into the empty bedroom. Now, with a tiny brush, he smoothed a tannish, powdery substance across his cheekbones. With a sudden, surprising gentle and tenderness, she smoothed the cream on his hand with careful precision. Dark hair sprung from his once bald scalp and the wrinkles on his face smoothed out. It tasted fruity, nutty and milky, with a slight tang, but the balsam strip smoothed out the tang with its woodsy flavor. Barbs can be separated from each other and smoothed back into place because barbules and barbicels act somewhat like a zipper. The metal floor continued into the hall and the walls smoothed out into a seamless surface. Cordelia smoothed down the bell-shaped skirt of her costume, smiling secretively to herself. Familiarity gave a personal tone to the gathering, which smoothed the transaction of ideas and discussions. Someone had smoothed her hair and folded her hands across her chest, put her small, worn slippers back on her feet. She smoothed her palms over her head, then unknotted her dress and rolled her shoulders back, letting the clothes slide to her ankles. Through years of boot soles and Border collie paws the unfinished plank floor has grayed and smoothed to ashen silk. Every unpainted piece of metal was polished and smoothed, including the impractical brass funnels on admirals' pinnaces. The primer was supposed to have smoothed out the ridge of the edge, making it one smooth flat surface. She grinned and her amber colored hair was smoothed out a little and curled lightly at the ends to create an elegant look. I had already smoothed my speech out on the podium in front of me twice. Your social standing ought to improve as an old problem is smoothed over. She sighed and smoothed the silken band about a pale yellow hat. She then teased this section and smoothed it back to meet the ponytail. If a piece of the tooth has chipped off but the pulp is not damaged, the uneven edge may be smoothed and the corner replaced with a tooth-coloured filling. Show More Sentences The plots have been smoothed to facilitate visual comparisons. Then she smoothed the front of her dark blue sundress again and sighed. James nervously straightened his untidy cravat and smoothed his hair. Claire smoothed the skirt of her sapphire blue evening gown. Over this a surface of gesso, made up of clay, chalk, and size, would be applied in successive layers, and smoothed before paint and gilding was applied. But, especially as the orchestra develops, and finds itself playing on other than home territory, some of those rough edges will need to be smoothed and polished. It sounds like a challenge, but on TV shows, I see security tape feeds being freeze-framed, zoomed in on, and smoothed out so a crisp image is formed. Venezuelans waited to see if Chavez had indeed changed, and whether a split in the military and problems in the state-run oil consortium could be smoothed over. Harold smoothed her ash-blonde curls and kissed her forehead. There were a few technical and dramatic details which needed to be smoothed over but on the whole I greatly enjoyed watching it with the lights, costumes and staging. He smoothed his hand across the glass of his first-class carriage window. Lydia Scott smoothed a flyaway strand of hair back into her tight bun. Running a hand through her hair to smooth it, Laena's hands smoothed down the front of her long, green gown in attempts to rid it of the road dust. Since this apparent blow up, things have been smoothed over with the two groups, but there were a few things that left a bad taste in my mouth about the whole ordeal. But he was now older and cuddlier, his sharp edges smoothed by the responsibilities of mayoral office. I smoothed a rebellious hair into place and turned to walk out of my room, desperately hoping that the dinner I was about to go to was a pleasant one. She smoothed paste wax on the old red linoleum and buffed it by hand. I smoothed my dress and placed the peppermint stick back on the tree. Within seconds, the few whirling ripples had smoothed back into an undisturbed mirror surface, reflecting the dark blue of the fading evening sky. She sat down, smoothed out her dress, threaded the needle, and began. Show More Sentences Hauser is about as bland as they come, robotically experiencing happiness, pain, and anger without ever messing his dyed hair or wrinkling his smoothed face. By early afternoon the ground was leveled, smoothed over and trimmed. Run your hand over the sanded surface to make sure it is smoothed out. Each coin has one side smoothed down flat and in theory this should be the tails side of the coin since it is illegal to deface an image of the monarch in England. The hadrosaurian down-flex in the spinal column has been smoothed out. I set her upright, she smoothed her jacket and, not looking to me for even a moment, took her leave of the carriage with the vaguest suggestion of a smile on her face. Rusted Cast IronPatches of rust can be smoothed off with an emery cloth but take care not to rub so hard that you make a hole. This transformed the carbon into graphite which further strengthened and smoothed the filament. Mrs. MacAndrew smoothed down the lap of her gown, and gold bangles fell over her wrists. When he released her, Marian reached up and smoothed the caretlike quirk in his eyebrow and then put her hand back in his. This surface could be smoothed and faced with an attractive stucco or thin panels of marble or other coloured stones called revetment. Milner agreed but at a meeting on 27 April meeting the dispute was smoothed over, and British IX Corps moved to the French sector. The final upper surface was made of concrete or well smoothed and fitted flint. Its landscape was smoothed by the glaciers of the last ice age, and is a combination of moderate lowlands and highlands. Bassist Noel Redding had a tape recording of this mix, which had to be smoothed out with an iron as it had gotten wrinkled. A project that has been covered in joint compound may be smoothed while it is still damp. Buff with wet and dry abrasive paper until the loose paint has been removed and the edges smoothed over, then just apply a metal paint. One suspects that some translators have perhaps smoothed out the jaggedness of Akin's syntax that other translators are at pains to preserve. Hawberk looked at me and slowly smoothed his leathern apron. I started the design in a blackletter style, then softened and smoothed it over several sketches. Show More Sentences The histogram of the input image is first smoothed in order to eliminate false minima and maxima and its discrete derivate is found. The new redesign has smoothed out the boxiness, given it a sexier rear and a bolder chrome grill. The engravings are on naturally flat surfaces, slickensides in metamorphic rocks, smoothed during the movement of two masses of rock. His latest series of experimental domestic sculptures are simply cut from solid lumps of Carrera or Bardiglio marble and then lovingly smoothed, finished and polished. These have tended to be smoothed out by successive reorganisations. With these choices, a subcomb with at least one tooth can be smoothed. One field was bare, its surface of an ochreish colour deeper than that of clay, broken and smoothed as perfectly as the surface of the most carefully tended flower-bed. Catherine smoothed her dress back down in the silence, and Gregory straightened his netherhose, raking a hand through his hair before he looked at her again. In the interests of improved airflow, however, the trademark Range Rover bonnet castellations have been smoothed away and the windscreen gets a faster angle. By chance he'd happened to be in Hong Kong when Clayton had died, and his guanxi had smoothed out the paperwork that could have delayed things for weeks. Calculation of correlation coefficients of curves resulting deduction of an appropriate normal distribution from a smoothed histogram is taken as a basis for the algorithm. Examples from Classical Literature He got up off the running board and smoothed out his uniform as best he could. Nat finished dressing the cut, smoothed down the ends of the adhesive tape, and stood back. Perhaps that sum, trifling as it was, may have smoothed your path and assisted your career. The track is smoothed and weeded and ballasted as if it were the London and North-Western. The plastic mass when it filled the boxlike structure to the top was smoothed off and allowed to dry. Dade shrugged his shoulders and painstakingly smoothed the hair tassel which dangled from the browband. Also there was a bunchy ball of tin-foil, that, when smoothed out, proved to be of identical shape and size with the other two. Before the final rolling in the calendering machine the fabric is lightly smoothed by passing over warm cylinders. He took a crumpled sheet, that had been smoothed and folded carefully, from his pocket. John Henry Menton took off his hat, bulged out the dinge and smoothed the nap with care on his coatsleeve. Then she stopped exhausted, smiled on eff, who sat like a cinder-witch all the while, and smoothed the hair from her brow. This embroglio is smoothed out, and Amiles and Bellicent are happily united. The hand of that wonderful husbandman, Father Time, has smoothed it all out. His fingertip crept through the opening of her glove and smoothed her palm. I feel almost too flustrated to meet your Western friends, and she smoothed out various discrepancies in her toilette. The legs should be dressed square and smoothed down with the fore plane to make them perfectly straight. These can be cut out from the lid by means of a fret saw, and then smoothed down with glass-paper. His valet relieved him of his dresscoat and smoothed the smoking jacket around him. I can feel the soft touch of her hands that smoothed my head when I was a boy. She seemed to have smoothed away all the Boston stiffness as she smoothed her dress. Show More Sentences The concrete is tamped, struck off to shape and smoothed with the belt at one operation. He had smoothed his brows out with his hand, indeed, as if their tenseness hurt him. The gigantic squatter removed his pipe from his mouth and smoothed the thready white beard, straggling over his chin. The material is tongued and grooved, secret-nailed, and should be smoothed off after laying. Jeroloman, who had left his hat on the malachite bench in the hall, smoothed his gloves. She always smoothed tottie, if she were at hand, when she had nothing better to do. She smoothed it out, folded it, and went to her workbox to replace it where it had been before. It seemed as if that kiss smoothed every wrinkle of worry from the man's brow. He took the song from his pocket, and smoothed it out before her on the piano. The way was smoothed for his doing so by the avoidance of any compulsory scheme of reeducation. Then she smoothed out her ruffled frock, and patted her hair into its place. With reverence they covered the imu once more and carefully smoothed it over. The surface is finally smoothed by means of the grader and drag. He retrieved the 260 Herald, and abstractedly smoothed out the pages. Cobb's seat and lifting the blue china teapot, smiled faintly, smoothed her hair, and dried her eyes. He gave the valve a turn and the Allison smoothed considerably. Ethel relaxed a little and the tensest lines smoothed out of her face. She smoothed out one of the bills, and the Doctor read his own name in great black letters across the bottom. He was quite huffy, but noticing my wondering stare he smoothed his ruffled plumes. She's in an excited state to-night,' said Simon, as he smoothed his rumpled feathers, 'and don't know when she's well off. Show More Sentences He smoothed it, greased it, and plaited it into the form of a pigtail. When he had emptied his pockets, La Folle patted his round red cheek, wiped his soiled hands on her apron, and smoothed his hair. The latter had been shaved and smoothed over every gnarly place. I almost forgot the little oval slate, smoothed ivory, where he figures up the latitude. She lifted a tress on her forefinger and smoothed it against the sunlight. In banffshire the peat fires are covered with ashes and smoothed down. Mr. Ashe laughed as he smoothed out a pucker in his niece's brow. And here she was, brushed and smoothed and dressed like a town girl, smiling at us with perfect composure. Then he smoothed the cow-lick over his one eye, and sorta studied the kid. Ali got to his feet, smoothed his burnous and went to the stubborn camel. March with a sigh and a smile, as she smoothed and fastened up Jo's disheveled hair. Similarly, viewers aren't always told whether the data were smoothed or massaged in some way or the angle of view specially chosen, he adds. Three years had certainly not smoothed the asperities of his temper or his impatience with a less active intelligence than his own. Mademoiselle smoothed the letter out, restored it to the envelope, and replaced it in the table drawer. Many vain solicitudes would be prevented many awkwardnesses smoothed by it. He ceased to glower as he gazed upon her, and the frown smoothed away from his rugged brow. Weston's visits here, and given many little encouragements, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to any thing after all. As a last resort, it was carefully smoothed with a warm iron, and Rebecca was urged to attire herself, that they might see if the spots showed as much when it was on. She smoothed it down over the wrist and buttoned it neatly, and both lost themselves for a second or two in admiring contemplation of the little symmetrical gloved hand. She smoothed it out carefully, pinched up the white ruffle at the neck, and laid it away in a drawer with an extra little sob at the roughness of life. Show More Sentences These techniques seek spatial patterns at some level of generalization or averaging and then summarize overall patterns and trends in the form of a smoothed surface. Did he have to kneel down in those wonderful smalls and pick you up and rearrange you before he was forgiven and his curly head smoothed by my mother's little hand? He stood up beside her and smoothed her hair with his soft, magnetic hand. We were smoothed with care, our political order reestablished, and then we were taken below and restored to the dignity of the select circle in the drawer already mentioned. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of smoothed? Words that rhyme with smoothed What is the adverb for smoothed? What is the adjective for smoothed? What is the noun for smoothed? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words smoothbore smooth as glass Smooth smooth smoot smooshed smoothen smoother smoothes smoothest smoothie smoothies 8-letter Words Starting With s sm smo smoo smoot smooth smoothe