canvas
Example Sentences
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Artists often streamline what they add to the canvas to highlight the aesthetic splendor in simplicity.
From Salon
Both fighters hit the canvas with Murtazaliev going down in the fourth and Kelly in the ninth.
From BBC
Moore replicates that stroll in different seasons, but the most memorable shows Mary marching beside a snow-blanketed lake doubling as an unspoiled canvas, wide with possibility.
From Salon
Often, Lam’s canvases are cultural melting pots whose ingredients refuse to melt.
“There’s almost an acre of sail to break our fall. If we jump out far enough, we’ll fall against sailcloth and canvas.”
From Literature
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