PAINT in a Sentence

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For PAINT, below is one of 420 sentences:
After surveying the sketch critically she drew a broad smudge of paint across its surface, and crumpled the paper between her hands.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAINT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
paint
 n.  a colored liquid that is put on a surface such as a wall to decorate it
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  And she had on a black dress and black bonnet and no paint and really looked decent but for that red hair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  But, for all her paint and flashy clothes, she was buxom and almost motherly looking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
3  Its modest "effects," compact of enamel paint and ingenuity, spoke to him in the language just then sweetest to his ear.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  His own, at the moment, lent it a festive readiness of welcome that might well, in a disenchanted eye, have turned to paint and facility.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
5  He used the log cabin as a barn; and a new house reared up, a proud, unwise, Gopher Prairie house, the more naked and ungraceful in its glossy white paint and pink trimmings.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  We ought to paint our own scenery and everything, and really do something fine.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  She read all she could find regarding staging, she bought paint and light wood; she borrowed furniture and drapes unscrupulously; she made Kennicott turn carpenter.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
9  whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage; breakfasting on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of mariners: their deformities floundering in seas of blood and blue paint.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
10  After surveying the sketch critically she drew a broad smudge of paint across its surface, and crumpled the paper between her hands.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
11  They all went together up to the quaint little Gothic church of Our Lady of Lourdes, gleaming all brown and yellow with paint in the sun's glare.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
12  "Perhaps I shall be able to paint your picture some day," said Edna with a smile when they were seated.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
13  Words could not paint the terror that came over him as he realized all this.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
14  If any one wanted to work or paint or pray, and could find no one to maintain him, he could support himself by working part of the time.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
15  At the next instant the form of Chingachgook appeared from the bushes, looking like a specter in its paint, and glided across the path in swift pursuit.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  To marry a woman for her beauty is like buying a house for its paint.
17  The paint's beginning to flake off.
18  The walls were besmeared with sticky blue paint.
19  Specks of paint found at the scene were found to match the accused's car.
20  The new color is lighter, and the old paint shows through.
21  I try my best to blend the color of the paint with the curtains.
22  I think the color of the paint will blend in the wall very nicely.
23  The paint will cover any irregularity in the surface of the walls.
24  Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
25  I brushed up against the door, and some of the wet paint came off onto my coat.
26  If I can't make a living at painting, at least I can teach someone else to paint.
27  You can commission them to paint something especially for you.
28  A good face needs no paint.
29  This woodwork has had its final coat of paint.
30  A fresh coat of paint can transform a room.