canvas
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A maid of honor to the queen passes the time with canvas work.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
The fight continued and Wilder pushed Chisora over in the fifth before landing after the bell in the sixth, while both men tumbled to the canvas more than once.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
His canvas was vast and so were his themes, chief among them a clear-eyed assessment of that part of the nation so essential to the formation of America’s national identity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
There almost everything serves as a canvas, including painted trash doubling as decor and the silkscreened couch on which he’s seated.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
Tangled in each other, they couldn’t escape from the tarp’s canvas hold fast enough, and Sigurd wrapped them back up in it like a picnic lunch, forming a bag around them.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Vocabulary lists containing canvas
Stroke of Genius: Words About Painting
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