coating

Example Sentences

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After the first uncrewed test flight, Artemis I, engineers found that chunks of the heat shield's coating had cracked and broken away during a two‑stage "skip" re‑entry manoeuvre.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

“She had difficulties already in her life, and there’s no sugar coating that. So we had to navigate this argument that what social-media addiction does is it preys upon the vulnerable more times than not.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

It’s a Wednesday afternoon in West Hollywood, one day after the city was blanketed in a light coating of rain.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

By revealing that immune cells actively modify their own sugar coating to enter tissues, this research could shift how new drugs are designed to limit harmful inflammation in diseases such as psoriasis.

From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026

The old fear began to pump, coating my insides with heat.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs