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More important, she had recorded exclusively for the early Paramount label, notorious for its poor recording quality and worse shellac pressings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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

Instead, “People getting ready to do things” is spelled out in egg yolk, besmirching the virginal purity of its white satin support; and “It’s only vanishing cream” is translucent shellac disappearing against deathly black.

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

Ebright, Bolles noticed, had been making more than the usual amount of noise in the Bay Area press lately about how thoroughly his freshmen were going to shellac Washington.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Ms. Zacarías shellacs a thin veneer of seriousness on the play by having the actors intone into microphones various statistics vaguely pertaining to the plotline.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2015

Sculptor Fingesten works chiefly in concrete and stucco, gets his variety of texture and color by mixing pigments into the wet cement or plaster, coating some figures with beeswax, finishing others with shellacs and acids.

From Time Magazine Archive

He runs three miles, showers, shellacs his white-gray hair and hops into the back of a black government sedan that waits outside his home in suburban Virginia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though the sound is monaural, it has been restored lovingly and retains much of the warmth that characterized the best of Europe's prewar 78-r.p.m. shellacs.

From Time Magazine Archive

There's ice, usually, lots of it, that shellacs the sidewalks and windshields that then need to be scraped.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Retail outposts, brick-and-mortar food joints, and text-based media have not been thriving sectors for a while now, but they’ve been especially shellacked in the weird post-pandemic economy.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026

Her best friend, Max, who was unofficially adopted by Suzanna’s parents and is shellacked in cynicism as played by the excellent Alden Ehrenreich, exhorts her to pull herself together and face her “big girl problems.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

Marty comes of age in the Hill Valley of 1985, where vandals have shellacked the high school with so much graffiti that the janitors seem to have given up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

Three months ago, the Scots were shellacked 3-0 at home by Greece, halting any sort of momentum built from three wins on the spin.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025

It was an old cigar box that had been pasted over with colorful papers, and then shellacked with varnish: a just-because present.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The Lakers lost by almost 30 points per game in their four-game series against the Thunder during the regular season, and one of the games was a 43-point shellacking.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

Trade-driven gains for industries such as textiles or jewelry are more than offset, markets-wise, by the shellacking India’s IT outsourcers are taking from the global software selloff.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

It is the prospect of an almighty shellacking that prompts so many of the conversations about Sir Keir's future.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025

Then they marched into Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Saturday afternoon and found themselves on the wrong end of a 28-7 shellacking by Georgia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

I, meanwhile, stayed home on Euclid Avenue, living upstairs from my mother as another leaden Chicago winter descended, shellacking the trees and sidewalks with ice.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama