How To Use Lather In A Sentence

  • A little diner food helped, but after the incident with the couple on the street all I wanted was to go home, take a shower, slather lotion on my blistered tootsies, and lick my wounds.
  • Let's go inside and drink coffee while we wait - likely the lords will keep us waiting all day before they blather their way to a decision. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Now, I can't help but wonder if these people have a quick look-see, utter ‘boring’ and move on, or whether they're actually reading anything I bother to blather on about in here.
  • When I do get in a lather, it's never my fault: it's the cyclists and pedestrians who are selfish and inconsiderate, not me.
  • Creamy onion sauce slathered over lightly boiled eggs.
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  • And then there are the funny ones such as ning nong, doofus, blatherskite. Etymology – the origins of words « Write Anything
  • She squirted herself a generous amount of shampoo and began lathering her hair with it.
  • He was terrible by the way, blathering on about something.
  • She was in lather-sweat of fear, and stood trembling pitiably. Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
  • Finally she burst through the surface and took the oils and scrubs and lathered her body with them.
  • For spouts of wild fury dashed up into the clouds; and the shore, wherever any sight of it was left, weltered in a sadly frothsome state, like the chin of a Titan with a lather-brush at work. Mary Anerley
  • On the baize, the balls roll on, but the former stars who now commentate cannot resist blathering about the Jester from Leicester or the Wizard of Wishaw. In praise of ... 'Whispering' Ted Lowe | Editorial
  • Brands like Artec shampoo are slathered on dark-haired cows, while Pantene is preferred for the blonder bovines. Well-Heeled Men Behind Manolos Try on Hooves for Size
  • The old men blather on and on.
  • With all the first-rate self-tanning products available, it's easy to fake it if you haven't had the chance to lie out in the sun safely slathered in high-factor sunscreen.
  • Then they slather on antibiotic cream and apply silver-impregnated bandages.
  • Nevertheless, it has helped add a bit more spice to the recent upsurge of rank and file militancy which has managed to send the mainstream press into such a lather.
  • Swinging from the rope portiere, slathering the pomade upon my beardless face, and all manner of the metaphysical ick in my oversized cuspidors! Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
  • Nothing works them into a condemnatory lather more quickly.
  • Yet the papers whipped themselves into a lather of indignation.
  • He's blathering, but in a constructive way: the big decisions have been right.
  • We had it for tea, toasted for breakfast, and as a foundation for fruit desserts, with fresh or poached berries, poached plums or peaches, and slathers of heavy cream poured over everything.
  • If you're interested in how I solved the writing problem I mentioned several days ago, look (behind the cut where lies lengthy writing neep in which I blather on about my work in order to avoid other pressing issues) When Good Scenes Go Bad, Redux
  • Radio phone-in shows got into such a lather that foam was coming out of my DAB. The Sun
  • Gavlok heaped a piece of soft manchet bread with thin slices of beef, slathered on mustard, and took a huge bite. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • He pumped a squirt of antibacterial soap into his hands, and rubbed them together to work up a lather.
  • In doing so, Blatherwick has made you aware of the strange beauty and vulgarity of otherwise unnoticeable, routine human impulses.
  • I love toasted slices of hearty rustic bread slathered with homemade confiture for breakfast.
  • She grabbed the soap cake and began lathering it over her body.
  • An inbound courier flashed past them, galloping horse lathered and blowing. THE CURSE OF CHALION
  • Barry redressed the building, added tower elements and slathered the whole thing with a thick icing of period detail, and voila: The earls of Carnarvon had a house that suggested a long pedigree and hearkened back to the fantasy days of Good Queen Bess. A Victorian fantasy, in stone
  • I thought that friction would figure in to it somewhere, given that soap only lathers when stirred up by whatever means.
  • Plunging her hands into the warm water and lathering them with soap, she began to scrub her face.
  • Of their 3 pork products, they include “barbequed” pork slathered in hoisin sauce. Baoguette Wins Lunch’er Organized “Banh-Mi-Palooza” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
  • I can't eat bagels without slathering them with cream cheese
  • Look, don't worry! There's no point getting yourself into a lather over this!
  • I simply lathered my scalp, the started to shave from the center outwards. Hair
  • She just let the woman blather on for a few minutes, nodding or smiling when it seemed appropriate to do so. GALILEE
  • It offers a rich, creamy lather that will invigorate, moisturize and soften your hair.
  • A character can be a Mary-Sue and have the writer blathering on and on (and on, and on) about how unbeautiful she is. Who Mary Sue Isn’t at SF Novelists
  • At eighty-two her body is honed of every excess inch or process yet I am surprised by sudden joy rippling beneath my hands over the tender bow of neck down the white-lathered curve of spine into that naked place where pleasures live unforgotten and swans sing their final song. February « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • Directions: wet hair, apply shampoo and massage into a rich lather.
  • Channing believed that the hardness of the city's well water made cleaning almost impossible to accomplish, since soap would not lather with water that contained impurities.
  • You've gotten yourselves so lathered up about The Big Satan (anything touched by conservatives), but what you're hating is stuff out of a comic book, not accurately reflecting the complexities of what really happened. Romney praises Afghan surge, slams confusion about timeline
  • There he is blathering away in old concert footage, as narrator Johnny Depp explains that Mr. Morrison picked out all his own stage clothes, "from the concho belts to the leather pants seemingly designed to accentuate his crotch. Does He Still Light Your Fire?
  • I blathered on yesterday with a rant on the subject, but there are countless others with something to say, and many with far more eloquence. Wag the Blog #9: BYOB (Burn Your Own Book)
  • That dried-up worthless twit once again obscures the real point with blather.
  • Families bought ears of white corn, steamed or grilled on the spot and slathered with mayonnaise and then dipped in grated white cheese and sprinkled with chili powder. Any other town have an anti-war protest Jan. 18?
  • It's rotten having to wash in salt water as the soap won't lather in the slightest although it is supposed to be salt water soap.
  • The barber carried a piece of rusty hoop instead of a razor, and a pot of grease for lather, while the doctor, with a huge pill box and a knife, which he called his lancet, stood by to prescribe the treatment each patient was to receive. Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea
  • After showering with this mixture, I slather on thick, rich cream for fresh, exfoliated skin.
  • When will he stop blathering about the morality of others and look to his own sorry affairs?
  • Real stucco is made from concrete and mortar and they just kind of slather it on there and paint it. CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2008
  • Meadow's coat was a dull grey, covered with sweat, lather and blood.
  • People who talk a lot and say little are called blatherskites.
  • There had been no warning of his coming — a clatter of hoofs at midnight, a lathered horse in the stable, and Tom had appeared, the salt of the sea on his face as his mother attested. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
  • The horse's flanks were soaked, its face was white with lather where the bridle rubbed, and foamy spit flew from its mouth as it tossed its head.
  • She discarded the cloth and began working the girl's hair into a rich lather with scented soap.
  • I inquired as I slathered cream onto my biscuit.
  • He makes up figures, he makes up stories, and he is full of blatherskite.
  • The more she blathered on about her problems, the more he knew it was time to take her off his list. Fatal Error
  • I think that between the heat and her blather, I might well have been physically sick if I'd had to attend.
  • You're not renowned for being a blatherer.
  • It is carefully and conscientiously applied: slathered, scumbled, scraped, drawn.
  • (Although perhaps I shouldn't trivialize it quite so much by calling it "blather"; it's precisely this NYT-style blather that helped get us in the current "complicated" mess in Iraq.) Narrative Strategies
  • Forget the skin drying messiness of foams and lathery gels and the nicks, cuts, shave bumps and irritation.
  • It will go back and forth like this – Vampires convert al lthe humans, humans run low, vampires die off, humans rebuild, lather rince repeat. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Vampires a Mathematical Impossibility, Scientist Says
  • I will have to continue to ride sedately until I am clear of the drunks, bus-rushers and blind Blackberry blatherers.
  • Real thinking should prevail, not blather.
  • Many slather gray mud over their naked skin, giving themselves a wan, ghoulish cast, and they saunter through a surreal panorama punctuated by eccentric installations.
  • The horse was lathered in sweat, nostrils flaring, gulping for breath.
  • Directions: wet hair, apply shampoo and massage into a rich lather.
  • The lampredotto was dominated, flavour-wise, by the spicy sauce lathered on top. boiled in milk and served with onions (a combination my colleague appealingly describes as tasting "like a sweaty hot water bottle"), a treatment that's also used in Ireland where it's commonly served with drisheen. The Guardian World News
  • Dad was in a right lather about something.
  • It's good to see another famous political blatherer actually blathering something sensible.
  • It's great slathered with the Carolina mustard sauce.
  • This soap lathers well and quickly.
  • Disillusioned with events in the publishing world, he decided to turn his back on the mainstream bookish blatherskites and focus on independent literary fiction and culture.
  • Steven L. Auslander, of Tucson, wrote, If someone consulting the dictionary is doing so in order to add words to a spoken diatribe, he or she may be described as a hunter-blatherer. Word Fugitives
  • He was thankful for the darkness of the cinema enveloping them so that he would no longer need to blather.
  • It certainly will stop all that santctimonius, self-righteous, holier than thou blather from the neo-con "christians"! Sanford ally: Governor remains 'defiant'
  • It's similar to waxing, but with less prep time (just slather it on).
  • Why not drop in daily for your regular dose of nonsensical blather, rambling introspection and stolen links?
  • I lathered my own toothbrush with toothpaste and shoved it my mouth.
  • Bouncing Bet has long been used as a cleaning agent because the roots contain saponin, which lathers with water.
  • Me and my classmates blathered on about that movie for weeks after we saw it. Meme, Myself, & I: Movies
  • The soaring profits had the financial press in a lather of excitement.
  • Both the roots and leaves of the Soapwort contain saponin and when stirred in water produce a lather which may be used for washing.
  • In honor of Belgium's most famous, non-waffle export Jean-Claude Van Damme, Racers strip down into itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny bikinis, slather on tanning lotion, and strike some bodybuilding poses in the most muscle-tastic task ever. Top Moments: Mother's Baby Bombshell, Late Night's Musical Burn
  • Another pic sees her smothered in soapy lather to symbolise the need for face cream and sunscreen. The Sun
  • I know it's completely uncool to blather on about one's partner.
  • The mask was multi-layered and began with a smothering of vitamin H cream followed by a generous lathering of oil containing vitamins A, D and E.
  • Sweaty kids lathered in sunscreen jump in, clouding up the water.
  • This lathery and luxurious 8 oz. bottle of shower gel is sure to help cleanse and nourish your skin.
  • However, I remember that it was almost impossible to get a lather with soap.
  • One of the things that I find annoying about the divide between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ art is the blather of the traditionalists.
  • I pulled out a bottle of sunblock from my bag and unscrewed the cap, beginning to lather it on.
  • Soap will not lather in sea - water.
  • And there's no jumper to get in a lather about, so the focus can remain on the impressive performances and expert pacing. Times, Sunday Times
  • But this lot are in a lather about something else entirely. Times, Sunday Times
  • The horses of the dozen riders were lathered, as they galloped across the drawbridge and into the fortress.
  • Gop blathered, "Maybe next time she gets an invite she might want to check into it a bit more to be sure it is not a mistake Topless club owner names dog shelter after Gingrich
  • Resuming the thread of the history; tliis alliance, which the Jews had contracted witii I'gypt, augment - ed their confidence at a time when every considera - tion should have abated it; it elated them with the presumptuous notion, of being adequate to frustrate the designs of Nebuchadnezzar, or lather those cf God himself, who had declared that he would sub - jugate all the east to this potentate. Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague
  • At the first sign of a wrinkle, all the fuss about aging and antiaging products made instant sense, and I found myself wishing I had listened to my mother's exhortations to slather on sunblock. Pore Man
  • But he is an engaging arguer, too, sometimes mangling his syntax yet often making well-reasoned points behind the provocative blather. Times, Sunday Times
  • She just let the woman blather on for a few minutes, nodding or smiling when it seemed appropriate to do so. GALILEE
  • I love the rattle/teether idea, because there's nothing I want to give my baby more than a cheap chew toy slathered in larded, over-sweetened frosting! Don't Toy With Me, Man
  • My father returned to the town house in a lather.
  • Their bread is incredibly good, despite them being a huge chain and all, and slathered with honey garlic butter.
  • Wow, I am in a lather of excitement. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the baize, the balls roll on, but the former stars who now commentate cannot resist blathering about the Jester from Leicester or the Wizard of Wishaw. In praise of ... 'Whispering' Ted Lowe | Editorial
  • No matter how many lotions and oils we slather on, our elbows, knees and heels are still often resistant to softening.
  • There is no surprise like a complete surprise," Margarethe is saying, in something of a blather. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
  • The prospect of a new tax on collectors has the secondary art market in a lather, pointing to the fast-falling chunk of sky heading their way.
  • Standing on a chair, fully dressed, he sprayed his head and upper body with shaving lather, dowsed himself with rice, and then plunged into a washtub.
  • If they're calloused, does she pumice them and slather them in lotion to make them soft and resilient again?
  • I would lather soap and water onto my face every morning and night.
  • His father was an upright man, and dealt equal justice among his children, whom he 'lathered' daily with the strictest impartiality. The Bushman — Life in a New Country
  • In contrast, you are a blatherskite living on other human beings and giving them nothing as empty words in return, i.e. the lifestyle of a social parasite. Social progress is our Duty
  • Though I confess to a moment of personal outrage when I was stuck behind an elderly woman at the grocery store the other day who decided to "slather" herself head to wrinkled toe in some sort of nauseating concoction. Scents-less
  • Once again, Sheila the sonographer slathered my belly with gel and waved her little wand back and forth. Times Two
  • He gave a long and well-intentioned but muddleheaded and boring speech about the whole concept he keeps blathering on about.
  • But, before you slather on that oil-laden cream or lotion, it's important to understand how the skin functions and to dispel a few myths about moisturizing products to boot.
  • Such dogged, browbeating miserabilism, slathered in extra helpings of implausibility, is very far from true tragedy indeed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lather is dense, holds up and my skin felt baby soft when I was all toweled off. Potato Soap!?!
  • She had ridden all day, blinded by her anger, and the horse, Bainín, was white with lather.
  • I really don't give a toss if CNN prints this or not; the moderation of these comments isn't nearly as strict as some of you seem to think it is anyway – they print what best advances the conversation at hand, even if it is unfounded blather from the masses, so just take off your tinfoil hats and get on with your lives, please. Obama, Medvedev reach 'substantial' deal on Afghanistan
  • Whatever they've done has also fixed the problem I blathered about last week.
  • This essay blathers on about philosophy and the sense of life but there's nothing especially offensive there.
  • She lathered her hands up with the rose smelling soap and began to wash.
  • Almost 60 per cent of water was wasted in washing of excess lather from the clothes.
  • The thickened root, a rhizome, can be beaten into a lathery pulp which can be used for soap and shampoo.
  • If that's the case, try jazzing up your remaining sticky rice after the toppings have been savoured with the hot sauce from your entrée or, even better, slather some kimchi over top.
  • I did a quick wash of my hair and lathering of the rest of my body.
  • Yet such indulgence is often the way, as people laugh off alcoholic excess while working themselves into a righteous moral lather over something smelly in a cigarette.
  • ‘Good for you, you made a funny,’ I said, lathering the comment in sarcasm.
  • Most beauty companies work themselves into a lather trying to launch as many products as possible.
  • On the lunchtime menu, the grilled poussin (with a pile of spring vegetables and a slathering of mustard sauce) is cooked to crispy perfection.
  • By the time she'd fully rinsed the lather off of her body, the shivers had become completely uncontrollable.
  • Talk is what it is, the old lords love to talk, to blather on and on. THE BROKEN GOD
  • The old man Spector handled himself well with all these nuts, but the majority of his time was wasted as an avenue for a platform to these Limbaugh/Paliin ditto heads (not to) ask pertinent questions, but blather about misapprehensions. Specter faces angry crowd at town hall meeting
  • Some of the several hundred A-list invitees were employing huge soup spoons to slather the stuff onto blinis in one of the many living rooms of his mansion.
  • If your skin is dry, you have to slather on moisturiser to soften it.
  • Will the Pirate-party actuall show substantive improvement (will people actually bother to take a stand politically, or is the growth in membership just blathering?) Us versus Them
  • Calm down there's no need to get into a lather about it!
  • This plant-derived antiradical formula includes colloidal oatmeal, shea butter and carrot oil and lathers up to leave skin clean and revilatized. Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • After showering with this mixture, I slather on thick, rich cream for fresh, exfoliated skin.
  • More years ago than I care to remember, we worked ourselves into a lather of indignation in student meetings over multinationals, looted funds and bribery in Africa.
  • It has the creamiest, frothiest, nicest lather and it makes your skin soft and smell delicious.
  • It takes a fairly intelligent person that has a lot of random factual tidbits in their head to be an effective blatherer, and DLR is that person. David Lee Roth: Amtrak FM « BuzzMachine
  • Many of the books we see these days perched perfectly in high street seasonal window displays are written by static, worn-out, curmudgeonly blatherskites.
  • Not only was the entrée some type of octopus-looking noodle dish, but it was completely slathered in Alfredo sauce, which I knew would go straight to my hips and underarms.
  • Toast whole wheat bread, slather with almond butter or peanut butter, and then sprinkle flaxseeds on top.
  • Such dogged, browbeating miserabilism, slathered in extra helpings of implausibility, is very far from true tragedy indeed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then being deboned, mechanically separated, and reformed into a tasty sauce-slathered McPatty. The McRib Officially McReturns
  • There's no way of knowing if they're "tax resisters" who challenge the legality of the income tax or just "forgetful," like the local politician who blathers endlessly on the need to fund his pet projects while neglecting to pay his own taxes. IRS Bonus: Two Extra Days
  • Hey, if Ronald Reagan can open his presidential campaign in blathering about states’ rights in – of all places – Philadelphia, Mississippi, then this century’s heirs of Lester Maddox can grow a pair. The Volokh Conspiracy » Colorado Attorney General Explains the Obamacare Lawsuit
  • Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
  • By the way, I experience a similar sort of mishearing where I live as people from other parts of Canada and even of my province think that we say the "a" in "father" like "lather" whereas to me it sounds like others say "fother". Languagehat.com: VARIETIES OF ENGLISH.
  • Bouncing Bet has long been used as a cleaning agent because the roots contain saponin, which lathers with water.
  • The sea was lathering into a whitecapped chop and the wind was piping up.
  • Then slather on the posttreatment moisturiser to leave your face soft, smooth and illuminated - just like you are on stage. The Sun
  • The hot water felt so soothing while she bathed herself and lathered soap over her body.
  • Wet the hair, apply shampoo and massage into a rich lather.
  • Finally, after hearing all the nonsense blathered at CPAC I would guess Newt gets bonus points for mentioning the Social Democrats because lord knows that group of trolls he preaches to is nothing if not anti-social. Think Progress » In Effort To Smear The President, Gingrich Suggests Obama Would Have Allied With Anti-Nazi Party
  • The lather and fetor of horse sweat, the whitened eyes. The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
  • AFTER A QUICK SHOWER, I stand naked in front of the full-length mirror in the bedroom and assess myself as I slather Lubriderm over my arms and legs. Left Neglected
  • Vigorously he stropped his razor before applying it to his soap-lathered face. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • A scrawny dapple-grey mare wearing a battered saddle stood there, reins trailing, lathered with sweat and blowing clouds of vapor. Conqueror's Moon
  • No self-respecting activist desires to have his cause championed by any such horde of loud-mouthed, blatant blatherskites.
  • Your lather is getting cold," Billy Louise said evenly. The Ranch at the Wolverine
  • Wet the hair, apply shampoo and massage into a rich lather.
  • Spas used to conjure up visions of rich, fortysomething women, slathered, pummeled and anointed, sequestered from the world while a plastic surgeon's handiwork healed among plush surroundings, granola farms in Battle Creek, or extreme fitness. Live Better South of the Border & Spas and Hot Springs of Mexico
  • The horses, resting frequently and lathered by the work, had climbed the steep grade of the old road to Moraga Valley, and on the divide of the Contra Costa hills the way descended sharply through the green and sunny stillness of Redwood Canyon. CHAPTER XI
  • This soap lathers so nicely.
  • There is no surprise like a complete surprise," Margarethe is saying, in something of a blather. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
  • His cliches come lathered in irony, layered in meaning.
  • Both the roots and leaves of the Soapwort contain saponin and when stirred in water produce a lather which may be used for washing.
  • Perhaps you will look for and dig up the soaproot, that onion-like bulb of one of the lily family with which the Indians make a soapy lather to wash their clothes. Stories of California
  • You are almost certainly wondering what the heck I'm blathering on about this time.
  • Testers loved this “easy to lather” soap for its buffing brown sugar and karite butter “that softened skin and left a fresh scent.” Best Beauty Award Winners Under $10 «
  • The constant slathering praise directed at the likes of them is the critical equivalent of a one-eyed chinless inbred mutant winning a beauty contest.
  • Since my guess is that you are in lather about this because you view ECB's article as an attack! on! Subtexts « PubliCola
  • Having arrived at this comfortable frame of mind (to which she had been greatly assisted by certain short interjectional remarks of the philosophical George), Mrs. Jarley consoled Nell with many kind words, and requested as a personal favour that whenever she thought of Miss Monflathers, she would do nothing else but laugh at her, all the days of her life. Old Curiosity Shop
  • This Is my true-begotten lather, who, being more than sand-blind, high gravel-blind, knows me not.
  • Let's go inside and drink coffee while we wait - likely the lords will keep us waiting all day before they blather their way to a decision. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Just seemed like your typical long winded blather, which is usual for you. Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 5, 2006
  • Finally, several years later, to complete the circle of poisoned feelings, Mark Twain broke with Edward House: “Reid had labeled him correctly; he was a blatherskite.” Mark Twain
  • [T] he doctrinal battle ... [in Kaur] really is rooted in empty, incoherent blather The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”?
  • While these changes seem like legalese blather, they actually represent a significant change in policy.
  • Look, don't worry! There's no point getting yourself into a lather over this!
  • But I looked up at him, and caught myself staring at his hands, still lathering and removing excess shaving cream, and preparing his razor to remove it.
  • I laughed when he slathered his slice of bread with butter.
  • The blather from both sides obscures the real, but largely hidden, agenda behind the tax cuts.
  • Toast whole wheat bread, slather with almond butter or peanut butter, and then sprinkle flaxseeds on top.
  • There it hovered, a dark and foreboding presence, seeming to slather as this new thing to devour came closer.
  • Much better is a rich slab of salmon lasagna, ringed with a swirl of bright dill pesto, slathered with roasted-garlic-Parmigiano béchamel, and crowned with ascending dollops of zesty tomato-caper salsa and creamy salmon salad.
  • After the hive adventure, I now truly appreciate the effort, from bees and dedicated bee-keepers alike, that goes into the honey I slather on to toast or drizzle over porridge.
  • They lathered up, scrubbed and rinsed off, tipping full basins of water across their backs, shoulders, chests and heads.
  • I was wrong, I still massaged it into rich lather, which is suspicious. Epinions Recent Content for Home

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