lard with
phrasal verb
larded with; larding with; lards with
: to add a large amount of (something) to (something)
He always lards his lectures with statistics.
—often used as (be) larded witha novel larded with clichés
Examples of lard with in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Watch as the camera follows him one night, toward a storefront window display larded with grotesque African caricatures.
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
His speech was larded with obscenity and boastfulness.
—Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
Though larded with audacious jokes and sight gags, the play had a strong emotive core.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The rest of the program, like so many this season, was larded with early 20th-century sonic spectacles.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
For much of its 90 minutes, Mansa Ra’s play, which is making its D.C.-area premiere at 1st Stage after starting at the Old Globe in San Diego, feels like an extended preamble: a rotisserie of backstory larded with forgettable facts.
—Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
Meanwhile, many of the states producing the least housing are the traditional multifamily powerhouses, states larded with dense, high-rise-heavy megalopoli such as Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
The text is larded with metaphor, which keeps reducing human beings to natural phenomena.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
Articles rambled and were sometimes larded with equations.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2014
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
His speech was larded with obscenity and boastfulness.
—Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
Though larded with audacious jokes and sight gags, the play had a strong emotive core.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The rest of the program, like so many this season, was larded with early 20th-century sonic spectacles.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
For much of its 90 minutes, Mansa Ra’s play, which is making its D.C.-area premiere at 1st Stage after starting at the Old Globe in San Diego, feels like an extended preamble: a rotisserie of backstory larded with forgettable facts.
—Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
Meanwhile, many of the states producing the least housing are the traditional multifamily powerhouses, states larded with dense, high-rise-heavy megalopoli such as Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
The text is larded with metaphor, which keeps reducing human beings to natural phenomena.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
Articles rambled and were sometimes larded with equations.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2014
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“Lard with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lard%20with. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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