GILDING in a Sentence

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48 example sentences for GILDING, such as:

1. The setting sun gilds the sky.
2. Varnish and gilding hide many stains.
3. If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.
4. He took it quickly out, but it was already quite gilded.
5. A single portrait, signed by Leopold Robert, shone in its carved and gilded frame.

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gilding
 n.  coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  Perhaps Meg felt, without understanding why, that they were not particularly cultivated or intelligent people, and that all their gilding could not quite conceal the ordinary material of which they were made.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
2  Then he offered many burnt sacrifices to the gods, and decorated many temples with tapestries and gilding, for he had succeeded far beyond his expectations.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK III
3  Varnish and gilding hide many stains.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  'I suppose they are those heavy ones, sir,' said Oliver, pointing to some large quartos, with a good deal of gilding about the binding.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  His massive couch, all covered with gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered noisily along.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
6  Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
7  He rested again until the sun was well up and gilding the great river with its splendor, and then he plunged into the stream.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  He drew it quickly out again, but saw that it was quite gilded, and whatsoever pains he took to wash the gold off again, all was to no purpose.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In IRON HANS
9  He took it quickly out, but it was already quite gilded.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In IRON HANS
10  Soon a red streak became visible in the horizon, the waves whitened, a light played over them, and gilded their foaming crests with gold.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
11  A high wall surrounded the whole of the hotel, surmounted at intervals by vases filled with flowers, and broken in the centre by a large gate of gilded iron, which served as the carriage entrance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 39. The Guests.
12  A single portrait, signed by Leopold Robert, shone in its carved and gilded frame.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
13  With a slight inclination of the head, Danglars signed to the count to be seated, pointing significantly to a gilded arm-chair, covered with white satin embroidered with gold.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit.
14  "But melancholy," interrupted Master Edward, snatching the feathers out of the tail of a splendid parroquet that was screaming on its gilded perch, in order to make a plume for his hat.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
15  Your history is quite a romance, and the world, which delights in romances in yellow covers, strangely mistrusts those which are bound in living parchment, even though they be gilded like yourself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti.
Example Sentence:
1  The newest Trump skyscraper is typically gaudy, covered in gilded panels that gleam in the sun.
2  If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.
3  For such a beautiful girl, to use make-up would be to gild the lily.
4  The setting sun gilds the sky.