shellac

Example Sentences

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It took the combination of shellac discs, electronic amplification and an automatic record-changer for National Automatic Music Company to manufacture the first 20-song multiplay machines in 1927.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Human societies have used plastics that occur naturally in the environment for hundreds of years, in the form of rubber, horn and shellac.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025

Another of them, rendered almost invisibly in shellac on deep cobalt blue moiré, circles around to give the exhibition its trenchant title: “Now then, as I was about to say …”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2024

“Your son has shellac in his veins,” referring to the brittle material used in 78 r.p.m. records.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023

Outside’s been dunked in a bucket of shiny clear shellac.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett