Sentence examples for rubbing from inspiring English sources

Everyone knew that it required a process of salting, boiling, rubbing, drying, roasting, and glazing so fiendishly complex that Confucius himself would have balked and ordered a takeway.

Used to rubbing up against life's extroverts, they are quickly disappointed by Henman's tennis-speak.

The NHS employs about 1.6 million people, which puts it on to the list of the world's top five biggest employers, rubbing shoulders with the US Department of Defence and China's People's Liberation Army.

It indulges his love of figuring things out, plus it identifies him as a detail-oriented aesthete compared to the likes of David Cameron, forever rubbing his greasy thumbs across his screen as he hamfistedly attempts to beat his own meagre Fruit Ninja highscore.

And yet, even as Swift is rubbing elbows with Justin Timberlake and allegedly feuding with Katy Perry, country music is working its hardest to reel her back in.

73 min: According to ITV's man on the touchline, Ned Boulting, Gareth Bale has been complaining to the Spurs bench, rubbing his temples and telling them that he's suffering from a headache on the back of that smack he took earlier.

The train pulled into Penzance and we walked up the platform, past the non-sleeper carriages from which crumpled people emerged, gingerly rubbing their locked backs.

The BVIs form part of an archipelago rubbing up against the US Virgin Islands some 80 miles east of Puerto Rico.

Next I dye the pale exposed edges using a small brush, then "burnish" them, rubbing them fast with a cotton cloth so that they seal and shine.

It started rubbing very badly on the part of my foot that had been frostbitten and replaced with skin cut off my hip quite some years ago.

Brissenden suggests dunking them in warm water and then rubbing them with wet hands until "there are no longer any brittle patches".