: to smooth, mix, or apply with or as if with a trowel
trowelernoun
Example Sentences
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Noun
Skip trowel wall texture has a distressed and uneven finish suited to a rustic and rural decor. Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Aug. 2022 Keep a bag of kitty litter nearby, along with a cheap trowel ($3) for scooping it into the bucket after each use, extra toilet paper, and hand sanitizer. Matt Jancer, Wired, 12 June 2022 Stick your finger into the soil, dig down with a trowel, or use a soil probe to see how deep the water has gone. Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022 The schmaltz is applied with a trowel in depicting his relationship with the briskly efficient Marge, who admires her husband’s brain but has lately been craving a little more romance. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2022 Likens usually keeps a kit with a trowel, toilet paper, and hand sanitizer. Hannah Singleton, SELF, 8 June 2022 Her principal utensil is a knife, but in a sense, Melanie Kehoss also uses a trowel. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 June 2022 Apply the adhesive using a 3/16-inch trowel, working on one side of your layout’s centerline, closest to the countertop. Sal Vaglica, USA TODAY, 8 May 2022 The two use a trowel to scrape up rock and dirt, and then a small brush to dust off the pieces removed from the hole that’s been dug there. Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2022
Verb
Refractory Cement, Brick: Rutland Fire Clay Black Furnace Cement was troweled into the sink to protect it. Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 2 Jan. 2020 Cleverly, though, the movie’s writer, series creator Julian Fellowes, finds an unexpected new layer to trowel onto all the displacement angst.BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019 The indoor-outdoor floor plan feels light and airy with white oak floors, troweled plaster walls and high ceilings.Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019 Jay Longino’s screenplay lards all the hoop action and comedy with troweled-on sentimentality and even a little romance — a little in this case still being too much. Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018 The treatment also distinguishes the living room from the dining area and contrasts with the troweled-concrete floor. Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2018 Rooms feature both Oaxacan tiles and troweled concrete. Jennifer Fernandez, WSJ, 8 June 2018 Drywall will be thinner and more uniform than plaster, which is usually troweled right up to the electrical box. Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2018 In addition to Chip and Jo painting the antiquarian island, the couple also finished the Romanesque cabinet by troweling a hard slab of concrete on top. Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2017 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English truel, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin truella, from Latin trulla ladle