drop cloth
Example Sentences
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In a crumbly brick building along the industrial waterfront, the actor Adrien Brody knelt on a drop cloth, smearing and swirling paint with a plastic card until it formed patterns, layers and streaks.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2022
Warning: This is a messy job best done over a drop cloth or on a floor you don’t mind getting very dirty.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2022
She’s also found that the mats work well as a drop cloth under a baby’s high chair and, in a pinch, as a compact bath mat.
From Slate • Jan. 4, 2019
Linn said the debris around the body – wood, door trim, window trim, and blue plastic drop cloth – looked to him like the remnants from a residential remodeling job.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2016
It’s empty now, a drop cloth on the floor, a tangle of wires poking out of the center of the ceiling.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
