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"Gild" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Who would gild a lily?
One can never gild shit so it does not smell.
Nine pounds of gold was needed to gild the victory medals.
Perceiving that the general effect was gloomy,—so that the airy castle looked like a feudal fortress, or a monastery of the Middle Ages, or a state prison of our own times, rather than the home of pleasure and repose which he intended it to be,—the owner, regardless of expense, resolved to gild the exterior from top to bottom.
No, don't add another lamp. This room is already well lit; there's no need to gild the lily.
The Ortolan is served on Versache plates with custom silk placemats, and finished with gold leaf, just to gild the lily.
To gild the lily, Dan added another four superlatives to the speaker's introduction.
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.
I will make fast the doors, and gild myself With some more ducats, and be with you straight.
Gild the entire outside with beaten egg yolk, and sprinkle it with grated parmesan.
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When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even.
[Alonso] And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: vvhere sſhould they Finde this grand Liquor that hath gilded'em? Hovv cam'ſt thou in this pickle?
No trade gild might be started without the consent of the whole body of hanasters, who would insist that the regulations were not harmful to the burgesses as a whole; […]
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