paint

Example Sentences

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"They needed to fix the drainage and not just paint it blue to make it look bright."

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Also looking to art history is Colette LaVette, whose canvases at Gillian Jason ape rococo stylings in swirls of impressionistic paint.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

He hasn’t been charged, and prosecutors paint him as a victim.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

And don’t paint your walls any shade of green or yellow, “because apparently that upsets people,” she joked in an interview, referring to the redditors who called her home’s wall colors “depressing,” “drab” and “dingy.”

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

One family had him paint a colored copy of a photo of their little girl who had died.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney