Sentence examples for is powdered from inspiring English sources
verb
To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
The business of giving is powdered with schmaltz and glamour and dressed up as entertainment.
If strategic positioning doesn't work, one natural option for suppressing nausea is powdered ginger root, available in most health food stores.
His hair is powdered, and his bluff, roseate face, turned slightly to the viewer's right, wears an expression of calm dignity.
Some of it has a gorgeous quality, especially that of Natvar Bhavsar, whose medium is powdered pigments like those used in sacred ceremonies.
Tonia's grave face is powdered white, as was the fashion of the time, but then there is her "real" skin and her style, which is something "other".
From black beach, where, as Elma wrote, the sand is "powdered like coal", we clambered up on to a vast amphitheatre of red-ochre rocks "thrusting great paws into the sea", and then walked back through the outskirts of the village to Pointe Baptiste.
Everything was powdered with flaked plaster.
There were powdered wigs and bombastic soliloquies.
The piece de résistance was powdered eggs.
Her face was powdered absolutely white, with black eyeshadow.
Then it was powdered by grinding.
