Sentence examples for lather from inspiring English sources

I recall in my younger years getting whipped into a lather by Origin and I wonder if that's still the case with today's younger generation (perhaps you can let me know … are your kids pacing the lounge room nervously as I write? Are you?).

By contrast, the organisers in Charlotte seemed all in a lather this year because Bill Clinton was late handing in his speech.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Whip yourself into a lather.

It works itself into a lather, demands vast tax cuts, fails to agree on its spending proposals in an orderly fashion, and then stages a big confrontation with the president over the final make-up of the budget.

And conservative talk radio is in a permanent lather about immigration.

Hindu nationalists work up a lather in such cases to put pressure on the Congress party, which looks powerful at the national level but much less so at the state level.

Its terms are, hopefully, nowhere near "accepted by most foreign countries", as you state.Henrik Carlborg Solna, SwedenPatently obviousSIR – Please do not perpetuate the myth that "without patents…inventors would have little incentive to invent" ("Patent lather", September 4th).

Its footage of lather-necked horses racing towards the finish line may cost bookmakers £50m a year more.In this section Political capital Higher still and higher The wind, the sun and the atom Ma's behind bars The central bank's dilemma Please, sir, can I have some more?

The flavor of it was there, harmlessly, in the lather-and-hot-towels midtown barber shops of my youth, with their uniformed women attending to gents' cuticles; benevolently, in the incomparable Broadway musical "Guys and Dolls"; and viciously, in the A.M.-radio rat-a-tat of Walter Winchell.

Plenty of readers are familiar with the first line ("Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather... ......), but few get past the first 50 pages.