paints Examples
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- Examples of paint
- There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
- The paint flaked off after only a year.
- To flyspeck, you need an old toothbrush, the paint color of your choice, glazing medium, a palette knife, and a mixing surface such as a palette or plastic container.
- He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
- The white paint on the walls helps make the room look brighter.
- That is one horse's ass of a paint job.
- Latex paint won't keep indefinitely.
- After the first coat of paint dried, he applied another layer.
- a lick of paint; to put on colours with a lick of the brush
- Examples of paints
- In all these he paints only the one woman, of concentrated, unconsidering passion, ready to sacrifice heaven and defy hell for a guilty man, beloved in spite of religion or reason.
- Jim's aunt paints beautiful watercolours.
- The levels of lead in marine hull paints are still unacceptably high.
- Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes.
- Although it is both transitive and intransitive, paint is not an ergative verb, because when we say "Bob paints", this is very different from when we say "Bob gets painted".
- 2008 May/Jun, Erin Barnes, “Glossed Over”, E: The Environmental Magazine, volume 19, number 3, page 21: Every day we are exposed to low doses of phthalates in food containers, perfumes, hairsprays, floorings, paints, toys and medical devices.
- No two mixings of these paints are ever the same.
- She paints and powders.
- Turpentine or mineral spirits can be used as a thinner for oil based paints.
- Examples of painted
- I took a big piece of paper and then just painted flowers all over the place.
- It's the watered-down versions you cant look at: the lacquered baroquey mirror, the dining room table with the zebra rug under it, those Chippendale chairs, the dark-painted walls.
- The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
- [ … ] the dim, tall, blocklike shadows behind the trees make it start to look, weirdly, as if this were Central Park as painted by Vuillard.
- The fore was painted white.
- 1972: The inside walls would be beautifully painted and hung with tapestries, and every cross-timber or falcon's perch was carved and gewgawed with toads, snakes, dragon shapes, deer, cows, pigs, trees, trolls. — John Gardner, Grendel (London 1972, p. 31)
- Examples of painting
- It’s impossible to find the center of a Hella song, which explodes in multidirectional streaks of percussion and squawky guitar like a Jackson Pollock painting.
- The painting is abstract, but the colors are suggestive of fruit or the Mediterranean.
- This painting is an exquisite example of suprematistic art.
- I'm not a big fan of watercolour; I much prefer oil painting.
- [ … ] John Currin moved from painting yearbookish images of anonymous girls to painting outrageously goofy pictures of women with ridiculously oversize breasts.
- As a chaser, consider the curatorially smart juxtaposition in the nearby Andrea Rosen Gallery: there a 1968 shaped painting by Robert Mangold and a sculpture by Richard Prince based on a 2005 car hood similarly benefit from each other’s company.
- I'll wait while you've finished painting.
- the accord of light and shade in painting
- Knowing what he wants his audience to both think and feel when viewing his painting; the artist creates an image that will produce aesthetic emotion.
Examples of paints in a Sentence
- en paints out
- en paintstick
- en paintsticks
Source: Wiktionary