Example sentences for: paint

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

  • well, as long as it takes to paint the backs of three bookshelves.

  • The straightforward chronological order and detailed explanations of the workshop system of the time, coupled with the high caliber of the art, makes for a show that is "both intellectually stimulating and unexpectedly poignant" (Mark Stevens, New York ). This "dazzling show of strength" is a testament to the "unrivalled genius of the Netherlandish artists who invented the oil paint medium" (Holland Cotter, the New York Times ). (Find out more about the exhibition.)

  • While Soutine--unlike Chagall, to whom he is sometimes compared--did not paint stereotypically Jewish subjects, he may have been alluding, with those dangling fowl, to a Yom Kippur rite in which a slaughtered chicken was whirled around a rabbi's head in a ritual of absolution.

  • Artists with the finest of brushes paint the minutely detailed religious paintings called thangkas.

  • I didn't see the Bill Gates story in Newsweek , but I have been constantly fascinated by his desire to paint himself as a victim, especially in the Internet age.


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