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Example sentences for: paintbrush

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Pencil (as well as penicillin ) was borrowed from Latin pēnicillus `paintbrush,' a diminutive of peniculus `brush,' which is also a diminutive of penis , which in Latin (also) meant `tail.
Every day we collected any eggs deposited on the leaves with a soft, moist paintbrush and transferred them to dampened filter paper placed in the lid of a 16 mm diameter petri dish.
Then, at age 17, Renoir was abruptly laid off, his paintbrush replaced by a machine.
Then, in a small, circular room, the first flickers of daylight: In Claude Monet Painting (1875), Renoir's close friend stands in a darkened room in black hat and full bushy black beard, but there's a wet blob of vermilion on the tip of his paintbrush, and more of that red smeared on the palette in his left hand.