Example sentences for: paints

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

  • Rosen's book demonstrates so little understanding of that core journalistic value that it paints itself out of the picture.

  • One is left with the somewhat misleading impression of an establishment figure: the artist who plays an artist in Six Degrees of Separation (as Close did), who paints pictures of his celebrity friends, who takes a formal photographic portrait of Bill Clinton (1996, in the catalog).

  • In talks and lectures, the renowned oceanographer and paleontologist Jeremy Jackson paints a vivid picture of what is currently happening to coastal ecosystems, talking about a wall of slime emanating from populated areas and growing outwards inexorably towards the open oceans, replacing beloved ecologies like coral reef systems.

  • The NYT paints a picture in which the Secretary of State's statements upon arrival emphasizing security drew criticism from Palestinians, but praise from Israelis.

  • A NYT front-page story based on those same documents paints a diametric picture, reporting that Justice took extraordinary steps to maximize the terrorists' chances for clemency, including the highly unusual step of making their applications for them and having supporters persuade them to write statements of repentance.


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