Example sentences for: dyer

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

  • These "breakthrough" paintings, as Rothko himself called them, with their thick layers of paint laid on with big brushes purchased at a hardware store, give the lie to the critic Clement Greenberg's influential claim that Rothko "seems to soak his paint into the canvas to get a dyer's effect and avoid the connotations of a discrete layer of paint on top of the surface."

  • The painstakingly recreated buildings contain exhibits of the trades and crafts of the day, including a dyer’s workshop, a merchant’s office, and samurai homes.

  • Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, one of the better-selling gurus in pop psychology a few years ago, gave this advice in his book, Pulling Your Own Strings: Always deal with people on a first name basis unless they make it clear that they need to be addressed in some other way.

  • In Amritsar, the troops of General Reginald Dyer fired on a prohibited mass meeting, leaving 379 dead and over 1,200 wounded.

  • Some wonder if this is a result of having a living subject--"Kaplan doesn't push, doesn't ask discomfiting questions" (Richard Dyer, the Boston Globe )--and note that Vidal "seems to have been able to exert his considerable charm, guile, and authority over his biographer" (Martin Rubin, the Washington Times ). Several also mention that Kaplan has been beaten to the punch by Vidal himself, who released his own memoir, Palimpsest , just three years ago.


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