It may be by a slight wave of his hand, or by his plunging his fingers many times into his hair, he sticks up or smoothes down his characteristic bang.
Or he smoothes down the ruffles or front of his shirt or evening-dress.
LAURA arranges her ribbons and smoothes out her gown.
This wind ploughs up broad spaces on the river, fills the furrows with foam, then smoothes for a moment the surface, and after a time twists it into deep eddies.
It strengthens the selfish and weakens the benevolent affections and tendencies of our nature, and smoothes the road to utter depravity.
Faith smoothes man's way through life, and in some cases raises him to honor and power; while Atheism makes a man's pathway rugged, and prevents his elevation.
Sleep freshens the complexion, smoothes out wrinkles, clears out the brain, strengthens the muscles, puts light into the eyes and color into the cheek.
Politeness is as natural to delicate natures as perfume is to flowers; it smoothes wrinkles.
As a running stream smoothes and polishes the pebbles, rubbing them against each other, so the swift current of life rubs off the angles from the human mind.
I see it every time when he, whether really in love or only showing himself off as a doting husband, fondles her hands, smoothes her hair or kisses her brow.
In particular, before using it again, she cleans, smoothes and polishes her laying tool, the probe that places the eggs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smoothes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
