Example sentences for: canvas

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

  • The National Gallery owns a beautiful canvas of 1953 in which a rectangle of magenta hovers atop a larger rectangle of black.

  • Rauschenberg, however, was compelled to alter such objects, attaching them to canvas, smearing them with paint, and combining them with all manner of other substances.

  • His self-mockery is exemplified by the second picture in the exhibition, a six-foot canvas bearing the letters “ART” [2].

  • Originally made from tent canvas, and later from the twill-weave cotton known as denim, Levi’s jeans are now world famous.

  • Its lesbian/bisexual (we're never told which) female subject allows Shoes to tap wider contexts of discrimination: A male protagonist wouldn't have had her access to the history of discrimination in the work place; and an infusion of color (read: race) might have narrowed the canvas, making the problem seem less pervasive than it is.


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