base coat
Example Sentences
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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
Obviously it's a lot easier when people are paying attention, when you have that base coat of knowledge, which I think you have a lot more during an election year.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2015
Modern technology uses a base coat, which carries all the pigments, and a clear coat, which adds a deeply glossy layer on top.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2011
Year after year she arrived at the beach with a base coat that the rest of us could only dream of achieving as our final product.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
