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Example sentences for: veneer

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

This scientific veneer neatly obscured the ethical dimension of abortion decisions.
There are scratches on the veneer of authenticity, though.
But once you begin to look underneath this initial veneer of a “do-nothing-in-the-tropics” holiday, it’s like peeling the layers of an onion.
You could not imagine better comic material than her ideas of "living": the "midnight omelet dinner for 1,000"; the fruit baskets the size of a Chevy; the advice (in this month's magazine) to make your own envelopes out of wood veneer, folding them with a bone knife.
He tried in The Day of the Locust (1939), with its more or less realistic story of Hollywood down and outs, but mostly he succeeded in placing a veneer of hard-boiled literary conventions over his manias about women and sex, which makes him seem just as crazy as in his other books, but less aware of it, therefore less entertaining.