Example Sentences

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The government awarded the resurfacing contract to Virginia-based Atlantic Industrial Coatings, without going through a full bidding process.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Court documents indicate that the company, San Diego Powder & Protective Coatings, often worked with military agencies as a subcontractor, including at the time of the raid in March.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

Coatings can do some amazing things, but they don’t always work as intended, notes Andy Hopkinson, managing director at Safinah Group, a firm that often gets called in to investigate when coatings go wrong.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024

Coatings can be applied to glass and porcelain to ensure water droplets easily slide off, preventing fog or bacterial films from developing, for example.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2023

Bituminous Coatings on Concrete Surfaces.—The concrete road surface is sometimes coated with a layer of bituminous material and stone chips or gravel pebbles.

From American Rural Highways by Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)