How To Use Smooth over In A Sentence
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Then pound the liver to a paste, add a tablespoonful of salt, a saltspoonful of white pepper; add three quarters of a pound of clarified butter; pound well together and pass through a wire sieve; put into pots; smooth over the top with a knife, then pour over hot clarified butter or lard and keep in a cool place.
My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec
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Agrarian funds, regional funds and other pots of Brussels' money served to smooth over the most glaring social distortions.
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Well, one sure way to butcher Scarlatti keyboard music is to use the piano to smooth over Scarlatti's sharp contours.
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I could see that he was trying to smooth over his duty for wrong judgments.
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He came not to lead or star but to unite, to smooth over the fight between right and left.
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Repeat the layers with the remaining raspberries and jelly, then smooth over the top.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sally managed to smooth over the bad feelings between them.
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Smooth over lightly with a soft cotton cloth instead, applying even pressure, but not flattening patterns.
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It will be difficult for you to smooth over your differences after so many years.
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I could see that he was trying to smooth over his duty for wrong judgments.
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They rose through a spiraling passage, surrounded by cool stone that had been worn smooth over the many long years of the school's existence.
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I was desperate for approval and to find some common ground to smooth over an unpleasantly awkward couple of days.
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In the meantime, the end of The Return of History and the End of Dreams makes it clear that “democracy” is a realist concern — a word trotted out by clever states and statesmen to smooth over the play of their own interests.
Test-Driving the New Neoconservatism
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He tried to smooth over the awkwardness of the situation.
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Smooth over lightly with a soft cotton cloth instead, applying even pressure, but not flattening patterns.
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USAGE: Apply to palm and smooth over the face, the massage gently with the palm.
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Cover the fish completely with the mashed potatoes and smooth over with a fork.
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He tried to smooth over the awkwardness of the situation.
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When the calculation was over, the operator would smooth over the sand and erase the marks.
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Brush back the sides and underneath hair, then smooth over the top into a hooked elastic.
The Sun
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The cast-in-place walls require intense sandblasting to smooth over the concrete surface.
Globe and Mail
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Carefully spoon in dollops over the clementines, then smooth over with a palette knife to completely cover.
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The advent of factions was an attempt to smooth over this alienation within the parties.
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he tried to smooth over his contretemps with the policeman
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Most of the folks coming are friends, but they've invited their neighbours - a hack writer and his wife - to smooth over a dispute about the dog.
