gilding

present participle of gild
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gilding
Verb
  • Construction crews are currently painting, installing fixtures, cabinetry and the ceiling grid, and will soon lay the carpeting.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In one photo, Dreyer could be seen painting an olive green room's walls white with the help of her 3-year-old son, Russell.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As America attempts to reclaim its pride by whitewashing its unflattering histories, Springsteen’s struggle to balance light and dark on these pointedly American recordings is tremendously poignant.
    Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Film workers for Palestine target those complicit, film companies and institutions, that are whitewashing or justifying Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its apartheid regime.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But by embroidering the drama of an American navigating Paris Fashion Week with stories of other women caught in the whirl, Winocour dilutes them all.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Someone’s braiding a piece of Shannon’s hair when a barrette falls out and onto the floor beneath the table.
    Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And as founders of Freedom Braiders, my daughter and I lead programs that teach the art of hair braiding and offer cognitive behavior classes in jails.
    Joanna Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As the sun has grown subtly brighter over this span, if this supercontinent struggled with high carbon dioxide levels like its Pangaean forebear did, then this would be an inimically hot world to animals, except for lone refuges fringing its polar far reaches.
    Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The islands that became the Outer Banks fringing the North Carolina coast first appeared 15,000 years ago, when sea levels dropped and the nation’s shoreline migrated inward from the continental shelf, Young said.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • One can make the argument that his choice to forego free agency and remove the dark cloud hanging over the team's season has almost as much to do with the Jays getting to the World Series as his stellar play on the diamond.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Otherwise, remember that a coat closet should prioritize hanging items first.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Gilding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gilding. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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