How To Use Smoothed In A Sentence
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The limbs grew stiff and rigid -- the features smoothed into that mysteriously wise placidity which is so often seen in the faces of the dead, -- the closed eyelids looked purple and livid as though bruised ... there was not a breath, not a tremor, to offer any outward suggestion of returning animation, -- and when, after some little time, Heliobas bent down and listened, there was no pulsation of the heart ... it had ceased to beat!
Ardath
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She smoothed paste wax on the old red linoleum and buffed it by hand.
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The metal band around the mouth is made of a copper alloy. Apart from its decorative use, it also smoothed the rough, unglazed rim.
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The Magistrate smoothed down his beard and inserted a small nip of whisky before replying.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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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.
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Recently, we've smoothed out some minor kinks she had in her takeaway and the top of the backswing.
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Hetta was a short, plump, demure young woman, with the softest smoothed hair, and the brownest brightest eyes.
Tales of all countries
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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.
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After gathering my belongings, I let my hair down and smoothed it out after applying a little liner and lip gloss.
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The slight hills and dips in the fields became the crumples of a quilt not completely smoothed down.
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But cultural and linguistic differences really do exist - they cannot be smoothed over by simply dulling our sensory perception.
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All spectra were smoothed 10 times using a fixed bandwidth, sharp cutoff, three-point, low-pass linear digital filter.
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To the end of this the assistant now touched his pontil, upon whose end he had taken up a little more glass, and this, being twisted in a ring round the foot of the stem, divided from the pontil by a huge pair of scissors, dexterously shaped with the plyers, and finally smoothed with a battledoor, became the foot of the wine-glass.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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Granite - a single slab, unbroken and unmarred, smoothed by Sun and Rain, hugged by Salal and Fir where it met surrounding Cliff, with Fern and Moss feathering it as it touched Pool's edge.
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The older man smoothed out the cuffs of his sleeves and leaned against his desk.
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Your social standing ought to improve as an old problem is smoothed over.
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The feather comforter was neatly smoothed out on the bed and the pillow was precisely in its center.
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Instead she smoothed her hair with her hand, calming the dishevelled tangles and knots, and walked back into the empty bedroom.
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She smoothed the wool tartan skirt that she had bought fifteen years ago and still used for everyday wear.
SORT OF RICH
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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.
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Within seconds, the few whirling ripples had smoothed back into an undisturbed mirror surface, reflecting the dark blue of the fading evening sky.
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He pulled it out of his mouth, smoothed the crinkles and read what his wife had written: "Be in aisle 10 of Home Depot tonight at 6 p.m.
Meet the Marriage Killer
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She gave a smile, walked over to her son and smoothed out his tie and straightened his jacket.
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She looked at him, and smoothed out her apron with one hand.
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She smoothed the creases from her skirt.
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We then calculated the residuals, the difference between each interval's extinction intensity and its lowest smoothed value.
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She smiled and stepped forward to adjust the coronet, which eased the pressure a little, then she smoothed his fair hair down.
HARSHINI
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She sat down, smoothed out her dress, threaded the needle, and began.
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A grader had smoothed the worst of it but wind and traffic had corrugated the surface so that the whole car vibrated.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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They were shouting at each other when they left, so I hope things are smoothed out by now.
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She smoothed the creases out of her skirt.
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The rise of central banks stabilized the banking system and smoothed the growth of the money supply.
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Someone had smoothed her hair and folded her hands across her chest, put her small, worn slippers back on her feet.
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Surely I have smoothed and quieted my soul: like a weanling on his mother's (breast), like a weanling is my soul within me.
The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms
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I smoothed my dress and placed the peppermint stick back on the tree.
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The primer was supposed to have smoothed out the ridge of the edge, making it one smooth flat surface.
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Even when only the front two seats are occupied small road imperfections are smoothed out and even rough roads are dealt with effectively.
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Table and bed linens were smoothed out in this late-eighteenth-century linen press.
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Starting from my head, she smoothed the linen against my contours, asking for blessings from the protective spirits.
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Now she drew off the brown mantle (which hung to her heels - and beyond, when she was not careful of it, so the hem dragged in the dust) and smoothed the raw, yellow-brown linen of her simar.
The Shadow of the Torturer
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Skin texture is smoothed and refined, and the complexion becomes more even, translucent and bright.?
Vichy Laboratories, the #1 Skincare Brand in European Pharmacies, Expands to Southern California
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The next day I placed the figure upright on a piece of 400 grit sandpaper and smoothed out the rough surface of the putty.
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After this it might be used in its simple condition, or ornamented with engraving, while the bottom of the foot, still rough from contact with the pontil, was to be ground, smoothed, and then polished.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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Anyone buying them on eBay will find their seats taken and their way to the exit smoothed by stewards.
Times, Sunday Times
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At our hotel, the Park Hyatt, syrniki arrived at the table studded with raisins and thick with cheese that retained its natural, curdy consistency, while at Vogue Café they were raisin-less, whipped and smoothed into delicate discs few Russian babushkas would recognize.
Beyond Blini
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Even with her own surprise, she saw his shock and momentary confusion, but in a microsecond, his eyes went flat and his expression smoothed out.
In the Midnight Hour
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She smoothed out the long skirt of her gown and waited for Thomas to stand.
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She tangled her fingers in his golden hair, an almost impossible feat considering the short strands were smoothed flat against his head.
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She smoothed his hair gently.
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If those difficulties could be smoothed out, he continued, would Stark and his top brass approve the deal?
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Her only shrowd was a white night-dress, yet the tender hands of her loved ones smoothed this out as carefully as if it had been of the finest satin.
Allen Parker. Recollections of Slavery Times.
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Walking away from the grand old house, we crossed thick clay ploughland studded with flood-smoothed pebbles.
Times, Sunday Times
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She manicured her hands, titivated her hair, scented her eyebrows, smoothed her lips, put on no rouge, and the merest dusting of powder, save where the seaside sun had stained her neck.
Swan Song
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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.
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In the light of the tragic event, he could understand everything -- her quietness, that calm certitude as if all vexing questions of living had been smoothed out and were gone, and that certain ethereal sweetness about all that she had said and done that had been almost maternal.
Chapter XII
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They are even being made now with special smoothed and lightened actions for the cowboy shooters wanting to score well.
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I had already smoothed my speech out on the podium in front of me twice.
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I then smoothed my locks into a high ponytail, leaving my parting intact, and secured with a band.
The Sun
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He smoothed the front of his simple olive and brown striped waistcoat, and patted his old fashioned bagwig.
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This was the theory of the learned Tollius, who in 1649 told the world that these chipped or smoothed stones were "generated in the sky by a fulgurous exhalation conglobed in a cloud by the circumposed humour.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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Once the workpiece has been turned uniformly round it is smoothed by means of a planer which is held at some 65º to the rotational axis of the workpiece.
6. Turning Technology
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Even if Geobase were international in scope, the National Hydro dataset on offer is insanely detailed and would have to be mosaiced and filtered and smoothed and generalized before being used to make aregional-scale map.
Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » The Natural Earth Dataset Is Online
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He smoothed the bills out, lined the coins up on top of his thigh, in size order.
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Smoothed a hand over her apron as if she preened in her best silk gown.
Earl of Durkness
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Summer smoothed out the creases in the paper and began to read what it said.
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It tasted fruity, nutty and milky, with a slight tang, but the balsam strip smoothed out the tang with its woodsy flavor.
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Celestine reached for a pencil and smoothed out the crumpled paper napkin.
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She smoothed her navy blue plaid uniform skirt and hugged her jacket around herself tightly.
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Her expression smoothed out as she suddenly smiled at Ty, giving him a message and softening its impact.
Calder Born, Calder Bred
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The band's slap-happy power chords now replaced by the real thing: minor A's and major G's, smoothed out under too many plinking piano leads.
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I smoothed some minor wrinkles from my blue blouse as I looked myself up and down.
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Claire smoothed the skirt of her sapphire blue evening gown.
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I saw a man struggle with a pick axe to remove the carefully built stone edging with its squared, level surfaces; I heard the rocks thrown in the back of a truck and hauled away; and now I can see the flattened round expanse of dirt that remains like a smoothed over cicatrice.
There Goes the Neighbours
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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.
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She smoothed away a few tendrils of hair.
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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.
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All the corners and edges of the Gamma Pad are smoothed and the mousing surface is flat and free of defects.
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Maura quickly smoothed down her gray pleated skirt and pulled up her school knee-highs.
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While the men are out with the cattle, the women spend the day in the village - a few grinding ochre, which is mixed with animal fat and smoothed all over their bodies to protect their skin.
Undefined
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Thick line shows the same record smoothed with a 40-yr lowpass Butterworth filter.
Loso: Varves in Alaska « Climate Audit
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I watched Dave’s shadow rock back on his funboard, spin, nose in the grainy air, lunge forward, and hook onto a wall of water that stretched across the cove and looked like it was smoothed with a mason’s trowel.
Kook
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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.
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A mix of anger and confusion flashed over his features before his expression smoothed, and he regarded her with adoring patience.
Ecstasy in Darkness
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She picks up a smoothed dowel she has been using to roll out pastry.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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Alfred Austin says, "With windflower honey are my tresses smoothed.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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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.
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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.
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She then teased this section and smoothed it back to meet the ponytail.
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Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins like stones smoothed by a river.
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Daisy's eyes were closed; the knitted brow had smoothed itself out in slumber; the deep breath told how profound was the need that weakness and weariness had made.
Melbourne House
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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.
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Finite element analysis for bulldozing resistance of geometric unsmoothed wave blade is carried out.
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He smiled as he smoothed out her frizzled hair.
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Under the window was a wide bench made of a half log, commonly called a puncheon bench, and the flooring was likewise of puncheons, that is, split logs with the flat side smoothed down.
On the Trail of Pontiac
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The band's slap-happy power chords now replaced by the real thing: minor A's and major G's, smoothed out under too many plinking piano leads.
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French Factory and under lee of the breakers off Indian Bar, I landed near a tree-motte, in a covelet smoothed by a succession of sandpits.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Gulping nervously, she quickly smoothed down her short hair, which she had cropped off awkwardly with a pair of shears, and turned the door knob.
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She shook the twigs, burs, and dead leaves off of her skirt, and smoothed her bodice.
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She grinned and her amber colored hair was smoothed out a little and curled lightly at the ends to create an elegant look.
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The head was shaped with a bow saw, then rasped, filed, and smoothed like the shaft.
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With a sudden, surprising gentle and tenderness, she smoothed the cream on his hand with careful precision.
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Time now has smoothed away both the damages of runaway inflation and the hurts of the Kerr dismissal.
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Andouille sausage adds some fat to the dish to counter the wine's tartness, which is also smoothed with a bit of cream.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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It was smoothed out so quickly I couldn't be entirely sure I had actually seen it crease.
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As I smoothed down a cotton nappe, one of the cousins pulled out crackers and nuts for the apéro.
Words in a French Life
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I smoothed a little more powder on my face.
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Rose smoothed her hands down the bib of her dungarees.
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Familiarity gave a personal tone to the gathering, which smoothed the transaction of ideas and discussions.
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Dark hair sprung from his once bald scalp and the wrinkles on his face smoothed out.
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He adroitly smoothed over marital difficulties and the couple moved to Germany, where he filed the divorce papers.
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The sea had smoothed out to slick rollers, no whitecaps breaching the swells, a hazy and ill-defined sun occasionally breaking through.
CORMORANT
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The plots have been smoothed to facilitate visual comparisons.
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Liz smoothed her skirt and sat down.
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She dared me to go for some red lipstick, so I smoothed some chapstick on, then glided the blood-red stuff onto my lips.
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Vaughan accompanied Elizabeth Mowbray and her daughter to London and, on arrival, smoothed their path ably and tactfully.
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When you soak the prune in water, it swells up, expanding so that the surface stretches and the wrinkles are smoothed out.
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Andrews removed scar tissue and arthritic changes, smoothed over bony structures and removed inflamed bursal tissue.
Undefined
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She propped her handbag in her lap, took out a small mirror and carefully smoothed the swept-up sides of her hair.
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The current disruption at York District Hospital is being smoothed over by a new commissionaire - former city pub bouncer Lisa Harrison.
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Robyn unscrewed a jar of moisturiser and smoothed it over her face and neck.
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The prophetess smoothed the front of her skirt, absent-mindedly removing a tiny speck of dust.
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James nervously straightened his untidy cravat and smoothed his hair.
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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.
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He wiped a hand over his graying hair and smoothed his lab coat, then cleared his throat.
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Mr Purtill also smoothed over staff unrest over the departure of general manager Nigel Gray by telling them their jobs were safe.
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When I told the earl somewhat more about thy qualities and disposings, and when I spoke of thy desire to serve him, and the letter of which thou art the bearer, his black brows smoothed mighty graciously, and he bade me tell thee to come to him this afternoon, and he would judge of thee with his own eyes and ears.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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James was seated in his snug old easychair by the fireside, as if he had been an Edinburgh Parliament House lawyer, studying his hornings, duplies, and fugie warrants, with his left leg paraded out on a stool, with a pillow smoothed down over it, and all the
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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Lenore's lips twitched in amusement, before her expression smoothed once again.
Wicked Pleasures
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The feather comforter was neatly smoothed out on the bed and the pillow was precisely in its center.
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Floating on the water was a large raft, made of smoothed logs, fastened together and topped with roughly hewn planks.
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Cracks appearing on the surface are smoothed with strips of cloth, and fresh application of clay.
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As Hergé re-drew and re-worked his books in the 1940s—eventually, from 1950 onward, with the help of the assistants of "Studios Hergé"—he smoothed away many such burrs.
Tintin & Co.
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(_frontes_) were carefully cut, so as to be perfectly symmetrical, and afterwards smoothed with pumice-stone and coloured.
The Care of Books
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Nor does it help that the hero's seemingly insoluble problems are glibly smoothed out in the final scene.
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When turns need to be smoothed out and slowed down, get a large slow board, slightly wide and thick, with rounded or egg rails.
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For a long few seconds, nothing happened, and then a very odd expression overtook his irritation, smoothed it out, and made it into a blank mask.
Thin Air
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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.
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The ssNa record is a 20-year smoothed version, resampled at 6-yr resolution, and is plotted against the time scale for GISP 2 from Meeker and Mayewski, 2004.
Gulf of Mexico SST Proxy « Climate Audit
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Monitoring checks that they are being worked properly without any unintended effects that should be smoothed out before too much damage is done.
Personnel Management: A New Approach
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When they have been smoothed and rounded, the surfaces are planished on the face by being placed separately in a die, under a small stamp, and causing them to receive a sharp blow from a polished steel hammer.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886
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She smoothed the creases from her skirt.
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While thus speaking, he continued to move along the littered floor of the dingy room, with the undulating restlessness of some wild animal in the confines of its den, and he now went on, in short fragmentary sentences, very slightly linked together, but smoothed, as it were, into harmony by a voice musical and fresh as a sky lark's warble.
A Strange Story — Complete
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All series were smoothed with a 40-year Hamming-weights lowpass filter, with boundary constraints imposed by padding the series with its mean values during the first and last 25 years.
The Maestro is in da house « Climate Audit
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A dab of hair gel smoothed through brows with a clean mascara wand will keep them tidy.
Times, Sunday Times
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But each fight was smoothed over when Russell gave roses to his wife, one neighbor said.
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She smoothed away a wisp of hair from her eyes.
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Ryne shot him one last glare before her expression smoothed out and she turned to answer the questions.
In the Midnight Hour
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1 A puncheon was the flat surface of a split log, smoothed with an ax and pinned to the joists to make the floors of the rude cabins constructed before sawmills were introduced.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
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If the material is to be left in some one of the flat-backed, rounded top forms known as cabochon cut, the surfaces need only to be smoothed (by means of very fine abrasives such as fine emery applied by means of laps, or even by fine emery or carborundum cloth), and they are then ready for polishing.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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she smoothed the mussiness of the bed
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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.
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He smoothed back his disheveled coal-black hair as he tried to catch his breath.
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She smoothed the creases out of her skirt.
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The makeup artist has smoothed and buffed the skin of his face, highlighting the wide planes of his cheekbones.
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Seneca and Burrus smoothed over the public outcry.
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The first glass, meantime, rendered once more ductile by heat, was passed to another man upon another bench, who, keeping up all the while the rotatory motion necessary to preserve the form of the softened material, smoothed it with the battledoor, gauged it with the compasses, coaxed it with the sugar-tongs, and finally trimmed it around the top with his scissors as easily as if it had been of paper.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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He smoothed his hair back over his scalp.
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She smoothed her plaid skirt, adjusting any wrinkles or valleys that had been created.
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She smoothed that, Before gutting-yet she would rather Sicken herself, than cheat my father Of his jugged hare.
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It is a paper you cannot make head nor tail of, and at the end come five or six long folded diagrams that open out and show peculiar zigzag tracings, flashes of lightning overdone, or sinuous inexplicable things called “smoothed curves” set up on ordinates and rooting in abscissae — and things like that.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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She smoothed her palms over her head, then unknotted her dress and rolled her shoulders back, letting the clothes slide to her ankles.
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The original curve was smoothed by reconstruction from fewer Fourier coefficients.
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He took the letter and smoothed it flat on the table.
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Some unvarnished wooden furniture is smoothed by twenty years of sweaty hands.
WHITE LIES
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Despite a somewhat argumentative meeting with my boss on Friday, things smoothed out in the end so I'll have a good reference.
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Edges can be smoothed, cupcake, and wine choices are why we have sommeliers.
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The whole float is then given two coats of cellulose sealer and smoothed over with flour grade glasspaper.
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She smoothed the creases out of her skirt.
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The operational kinks get smoothed out on this second day of the Australian Nationals both at my end and at headquarters.
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Robyn unscrewed a jar of moisturiser and smoothed it over her face.
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Result: supersoft, blooming skin that is supple, smoothed and nourished.
Times, Sunday Times
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The incessant assaults of the sea have cut deep but narrow clefts in the granite, worn out sounding hollows, and smoothed away angularities.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Lydia Scott smoothed a flyaway strand of hair back into her tight bun.
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Granger causality tests were then conducted on the smoothed data to determine the direction of causality.
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Run your hand over the sanded surface to make sure it is smoothed out.
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He laid a shaking hand on his son's forehead, then smoothed the black hair that was now streaked with gray at the temples.
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While these correlation were performed with raw, unfiltered data, for clarity the tree-ring record in Figure 7B has been smoothed with a 10-yr lowpass filter and is presented in sigma units standard deviations from the chronology mean.
Loso: Varves in Alaska « Climate Audit
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A grader had smoothed the worst of it but wind and traffic had corrugated the surface so that the whole car vibrated.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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Mademoiselle Avrillion put down her basket and smoothed her skirt, her expression apprehensive.
The Last Great Dance on Earth
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Then, making up my bunt and putting into it the slack of the clews, the leech and footrope and the body of the sail, I hauled it well up on the yard, smoothed the skin, brought it down abaft, and made fast the bunt-gasket round the mast.
The Mutineers
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He straightened his tie nervously and smoothed his hair.
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She smoothed his hair gently.
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Alvin Yark cut scarf joints, trimmed and smoothed until they fit together like a handclasp.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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She smoothed the creases out of her skirt.
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She smoothed the creases from her skirt.
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Richard still got into fights on occasion, but nothing that couldn't be smoothed over.
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They smoothed out the map on the table.
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Robin picked up the Marconigram, and calmly smoothed out the crinkles.
The Prince of Graustark
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Every unpainted piece of metal was polished and smoothed, including the impractical brass funnels on admirals' pinnaces.
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Sitting next to Lord Ciceron, the fourth lord of the Tetrad, Mariam Erendira Vasquez, smoothed out the folds of her viridian robe.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Worse, she said, was that once challenging trails had been smoothed to reduce the risks of injury for unexperienced hikers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then she smoothed the front of her dark blue sundress again and sighed.
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We moved it and smoothed it out and provided just-in-time delivery, much like you do in the civilian sector.
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He lifted her bodily off the ground, and smoothed down the folds of her dress as a child might have taken a storm-beaten bird and arranged its ruffled plumes, and bore her along the pavement to the King's Arms Inn. Here he passed with her under the archway into a private room; and by the time he had deposited -- so lothly -- the precious burden upon a sofa, Bathsheba had opened her eyes.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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The creamy formula smoothed on like a moisturizer, and the oil-free, fragrance-free and non-pore-clogging formula didn't irritate my skin.
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This work revealed “a clear manifestation of the Medieval Warm Period” between AD 1000 and 1250, the peak warm-season temperature of which “smoothed with a 40-year lowpass Butterworth filter” was clearly higher than it was at the end of the 20th century.
Loso: Varves in Alaska « Climate Audit
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She picks up a smoothed dowel she has been using to roll out pastry.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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By all accounts both Tub O'Lard and Miss Caravanning Monthly 1975 are still enjoying the sybaritic delights of the 'Grace & Favour' residences that were granted to them when they were still Ministers of The Crown, the former enjoying a flat in Admiralty Arch where, as Deputy Prime Minister he is said to have smoothed the ruffled feathers of Vanity Blair and Macavity (and doubtless shagged his secretary whilst the going was good) and the latter at Carlton Gardens.
Archive 2007-07-22
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Ben smiled and smoothed back down his cowlicks.
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To the end of this the assistant now touched his pontil, upon whose end he had taken up a little more glass, and this, being twisted in a ring round the foot of the stem, divided from the pontil by a huge pair of scissors, dexterously shaped with the plyers, and finally smoothed with a battledoor, became the foot of the wine-glass.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
