Example sentences for: paint

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

  • (Traditional explanations include European encounters with Indians wearing red paint, or else the creative labeling system of 18 th -century Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus.)

  • The two vulnerable figures are literally molded of paint; the girl's left hand juts out a quarter-inch from the canvas in one thick dab.

  • Never able to paint anything unless he had it before his eyes, Soutine set about re-enacting some of the classic paintings he loved most.

  • Remarkable as those other artists are, they all went to art schools and learned to paint and draw, and in consequence, their lives are, in most essential respects, not unlike those described by Giorgio Vasari in his The Lives of the Artists of 1550.

  • It just hit me a few minutes ago when I was in the study repainting the red walls a redder red--a project that I estimate will take me approximately 21 painting hours since there also are 28 bookshelves and the back of each will need three coats since red paint streaks so badly--that the way we flit around from topic to topic here (and at our real breakfast table) is indicative of a bigger problem in how we live our lives.


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