But the President's executive action appeared likely to smooth over much of that problem.

But there is no easy way to smooth over the current dispute.

For a moment his face showed it, then smoothed over again.

Yesterday, the two nations seemed to be trying to smooth over their differences.

The hard feelings were being smoothed over for the most part.

It's taken us twenty years and change to smooth over the bad feelings.

We're working to smooth over any personal differences the two men have."

She certainly wasn't helping to smooth over this embarrassing moment.

Usually he is asking his brother to have a word with one duke or another, to smooth over some political difference.

"He really came to camp making an effort to smooth over everything," one teammate said.

The other woman did make rough spots and leave them to her to smooth over.

I thought we were going to get together at my basketball camp and everything would have been smoothed over.

At the same time, the Republican leaders tried to smooth over differences in their ranks to speed the process.

The entire surface is to be smoothed over with concrete.

I tried to smooth over the slight of my first refusal.

This was done largely to smooth over the process of inheritance.

Leave it to Sean to try to smooth over any situation with humor.

She'd smoothed over all the rough places as if they'd never been there before.

He'd need to smooth over any prints he left, then count on the wind to do the rest.

One expects a student orchestra to smooth over some of these differences.

If he'll come back now everything can be smoothed over, and no one will know anything about it."

He used to smooth over the little awkwardnesses which always seemed to happen around your father.

From them she scooped out cream to smooth over her skin.

Smoothing over his baseball struggles will take more than a phone call.

Someone had tried to smooth over the join following the welding.