base coat
Example Sentences
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We used a base coat of highlighter pink.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022
As Gaia was painting the base coat on her mural in downtown Oakland, she wasn’t quite sure what the end product was going to look like.
From The Verge • Jul. 5, 2020
Her stones were of varying shapes and sizes, none of them larger than a fist, and she made a bronze cast of each one and covered that with a base coat of automobile body paint.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019
These effect paints are applied over the pigmented base coat, and below the glossy clear coat.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2011
We paint a white base coat in silence, and when it’s almost dry, something cool splats against my cheek.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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