Sentence examples for smoothing down from inspiring English sources

It is an excellent machine for removing paint and varnish, and for smoothing down really rough wood.

Someone with OCD might spend so much time straightening closet hangers or smoothing down rugs or going over mental checklists like mine that he or she risks losing jobs and ruining relationships.

"O Lord, O Lord, O Lord, here they are, Henry, will you look at them," the lady said, smoothing down the skirt of her dress and looking directly at the girl in the yachting cap.

Properly handled, it can also be used to trim off door edges and moldings, and is great for smoothing down or stripping flush doors, garage doors, siding and paneling.

Let the pounding become one with your own sense of needing to get something done, physically, to see some effort transposed from thumb to forefinger, so to speak, smoothing down freshly poured concrete with a trowel, feeling the gelatinous shift of substance.

Which may be why companies spend more on smoothing down executive abrasiveness than on any other failing.

Since then, Lock has smoothed down some of the edges.

Better to be cool — and smooth down those rough edges.

He unrolled and smoothed down his trouser legs after a Blackpool paddle.

They are hammered from the inside out and then smoothed down on the front.

The moistened panels were hung and smoothed down with a brush.