lard

verb \ ˈlärd \

|Updated on: 18 Jul 2018

Examples: lard in a Sentence

Definition of lard

larded; larding; lards

transitive verb

1 a : to dress (meat) for cooking by inserting or covering with something (such as strips of fat)

b : to cover or soil with grease

2 : to augment or intersperse especially with something superfluous or excessive

the book is larded with subplots

3 obsolete : to make rich with or as if with fat

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Examples of lard in a Sentence

a roast larded with bacon

Recent Examples of lard from the Web

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, "In ‘Uncle Drew,’ Kyrie dribbles, Kyrie shoots, Kyrie acts," 27 June 2018
It will get larded up with favors to win over various constituencies.

— david roberts, Vox, "Big oil and Bush-era lobbyists are teaming up to support a carbon tax," 22 June 2018
Stretched for the first time to twice its previous length despite little of substance with which to lard it, ESPN's NBA lottery program from Chicago's Palmer House hotel averaged just 2.4 million viewers.

— phil rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, "ESPN's NBA lottery hour averaged 25 percent fewer viewers than 2017's half-hour," 17 May 2018
Her finest work features distinctive European improvisers including Andrea Neumann and Christine Abdelnour, and implants microscopic gestures and refined interaction within abrasive noisescapes larded with sine tones and garbled feedback.

— peter margasak, Chicago Reader, "Electronic improviser Bonnie Jones highlights community in her abstract sound practice," 17 May 2018
Alan Menken's score from Disney's 1992 animated classic has been larded up with new songs, most not especially memorable, proving the adage that less is more.

— andrea simakis, cleveland.com, "It's a bumpy ride back to the boy-crazy '60s for the 6-woman cast of Great Lakes Theater's 'Beehive' (review)," 10 May 2018
Nor does the kitchen try to lard extra umami into every dish.

— pete wells, New York Times, "A Chinatown Noodle Dynasty Returns in Style," 13 Feb. 2018
That didn't affect my enjoyment of a moist, crisp-skinned chicken sandwich, or of the Rotisserie Fat Rice, a bowl of perfect sushi grains, cooked in the juices of the birds slowly turning in the rotisserie and then larded with their fat.

— brett martin, GQ, "The Year That Fast Casual (Kinda, Sorta, Maybe) Grew Up," 25 Apr. 2018
For the last several years, private equity firms have wreaked havoc on the industry, destroying profitable chains by larding them up with unsustainable levels of debt.

— alex shephard, The New Republic, "Finance Is Killing the News," 18 Apr. 2018

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