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
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The novel is more than 1,000 pages long, more than 1,000 years old, and larded with enigmatic poetry.
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Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
In 2021, the Democratic Congress passed and former President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a $1.2 trillion monstrosity larded with pork and payouts to favored green interests.
—Las Vegas Review-Journal, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2025
The remake’s solution combines motion capture performance technology larded with digital animation from a presumable army of effects houses, with Bashful voiced by Tituss Burgess, Dopey handled by Andrew Barth Feldman and so on.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Pedraza’s rambling business updates are larded with references to Daoist philosopher Laozi, Napoleon and Ronald Coase, the Nobel laureate economist.
—Iain Martin, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
Watch as the camera follows him one night, toward a storefront window display larded with grotesque African caricatures.
—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
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Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
In 2021, the Democratic Congress passed and former President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a $1.2 trillion monstrosity larded with pork and payouts to favored green interests.
—Las Vegas Review-Journal, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2025
The remake’s solution combines motion capture performance technology larded with digital animation from a presumable army of effects houses, with Bashful voiced by Tituss Burgess, Dopey handled by Andrew Barth Feldman and so on.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Pedraza’s rambling business updates are larded with references to Daoist philosopher Laozi, Napoleon and Ronald Coase, the Nobel laureate economist.
—Iain Martin, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
Watch as the camera follows him one night, toward a storefront window display larded with grotesque African caricatures.
—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
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“Lard with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lard%20with. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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