troweling in a sentence

Examples

1. After troweling it on and waiting about 15 minutes, rub the surface with a wood float, a type of trowel that is wood rather than steel, and which makes a rough, skid-resistant surface.
2. Horacio Hernandez took a brief break from pouring and troweling highway concrete while the temperature rose to 101 here Monday afternoon, pulled away his tinted safety goggles and tried to wipe them off with a T-shirt that was already soaked.
3. Texturing consists of troweling on a layer of texturing compound, called " mud " by professionals, then manipulating it with shaping tools, like long-napped rollers and long-bristled brushes, that can be purchased at local stores.
4. Blending Masonic and Celtic imagery with a rare if obscure fervor, Barney juxtaporew the inscrutable troweling efforts of a working man called the Entered Apprentice ( played by himself ) against the grand designs of Masonic mainstay Hiram Abiff, aka the Architect ( fellow artist Richard Serra ).