Sentence examples for bedewed from inspiring English sources

Milton, in one of his translations, wrote about a "slender youth, bedewed with liquid odours"; in Eyres's version, the same ephebe is "drenched in Pour Homme", which is mere product placement.

A short walk away, between the arches in the dank, drained, covered Toxteth reservoir, green lasers blitz the damp air, the electric green light bedewed like a spider's web on an autumn morning.

It is impressive, with greens and herbs stacked four feet high in neat displays, their immaculate leaves bedewed with tiny droplets from a misting system in near-constant operation.

And as he tends to his ailing, seemingly comatose young daughter (Betsy Hogg), his face is bedewed with the perspiration of raw fear.

Like the finish line of a long road race, the Times Square subway platform one recent hot afternoon was a study in wet humanity, from drenched (a large woman in shorts and a skimpy, sweat-splotched top, flushed and vigorously fanning herself), to barely bedewed (an elderly man in a suit and tie calmly reading his paper).

Among their inspired concoctions is a bridal gown with a billowy skirt of men's white dress shirts; necktie-and-zipper bustiers; a flapper's shift, tiered like an artichoke, whose button-bedewed petals are the cuffs of a dozen jackets.