Example sentences for: paint

How can you use “paint” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 24,000 community volunteers pick up 2 million pounds of litter, plant 1,200 trees and paint 50 homes for the poor and elderly.

  • It's to paint a truthful portrait of his earlier life, before he was transformed by his experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

  • But even as I was saying, "Help, save me from the dinosaur," I was simultaneously thinking: How am I going to wrap up that column today, the kicker I have stinks; should I roast a chicken for dinner or not because it's not worth it unless I go get the good chicken and that's at a butcher store 20 minutes away, and if waste 40 minutes going to a butcher store, how many of those red shelves will I be able to paint today; did I forget to give Zoe that permission slip she needed this morning; is my skin starting to look old; do I hear the dog throwing up a sock in the kitchen; maybe I should just end the piece by referring back to the lead, but then I always do that so ...

  • The NYT , in its off-lead on the crisis, continues to paint the picture of Russia's financial barons sinking economic reform--with its aims of collecting back taxes and allowing money-losing concerns to go under--and reasserting their power.

  • is that the one where the people all drink out of the backs of their pickups for like six hours, and then the team runs out to like kettle drums and blaring brass bands, and the crowd stomps on the bleachers and they chant fascist propaganda really loud in unison, and paint themselves and scream like apes and dislocate each others knees and people get crushed and everybody pees on each other and throws their feces like in Gorillas In the Mist and then they all go home and get date-raped?


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