How to Use easel in a Sentence

easel

noun
  • At least one person brought an easel to paint the scene.
    Washington Post, 29 June 2020
  • An easel with a still-wet canvas stood in the center of the room.
    New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The back of my hand serves as my paint palette to mix and my cheeks, my easel.
    Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
  • His easel and all of his paintings were destroyed in the chaos.
    Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Painters will need to bring their own easel and supplies.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
  • The teen girls watched anxiously as an easel, cloaked in a black cloth, was pushed to the front of the stage.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • And in the foreground of the picture is a tiny self-portrait of Cole at his easel.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
  • At the corner of the frame, a painting of the upper body of a black man is shown on an easel.
    Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The fort area in the back of the store holds the play kitchen, a train table, an easel and a dollhouse, among other toys.
    Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • An easel for the children is mounted in the corner of one room, still blank.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • An easel held a black-and-white painting of two figures.
    Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
  • Kim Baptiste Jean-Louis, 32, rushed over to set the picture right on an easel.
    New York Times, 20 July 2021
  • Just left of the stage, perched on an easel, was a photo of his brother in uniform.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • The primary sound of the live set is my voice & the Buchla music easel.
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, SPIN, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Guests can see, and sometimes touch, Ross’ easel, paints and brushes.
    Charlotte Stefanski, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
  • His music teacher would bring out an iPad and an easel to teach lessons.
    Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Tal Simon, a 29-year-old artist from the kibbutz, sat in a corner at an easel.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Set your book on a picture-frame easel for hands-free reading.
    Brooke Shunatona, Cosmopolitan, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Curreri had prepared four easels and sketched the lines of the cactus on each canvas.
    Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The painter, her back to us, sits at an easel as her two roommates hunch at the table beside her.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
  • There is a photo of two renderings propped up on easels to show what the kitchen would have looked like.
    Mark Davis, kansascity, 9 May 2018
  • The painting was still on an easel in Klimt's studio at the time of his death in February 1918.
    Town & Country, 14 June 2023
  • Around its base, a small circular stage had been built and filled with six large art easels.
    Beth Spotswood, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
  • West took the idea to the Boys & Girls Club and set up easels, paints, instructions and rough sketches of portraits.
    Jessica Hice, Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2017
  • The painting was still on the easel in Klimt’s studio at the time of his death, according to Sotheby’s.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 28 June 2023
  • The floors, meanwhile, are speckled with proof of her work, which sits displayed on an easel.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 11 Feb. 2020
  • If an easel or stand is needed, please note this in the submission form.
    courant.com, 11 June 2021
  • Dorothy Drake brought her grandchildren to the park to enjoy the splash pad and noticed the easels being set up.
    Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 9 June 2017
  • To start one of her big cartoon-style paintings, Emily Fromm first clears off the kitchen counter to serve as her easel.
    Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018
  • One of the lighthouses protrudes off the canvas; the ground shown under the easel is also rendered in brushstroke.
    Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 30 June 2024

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