How to Use paint over in a Sentence

paint over

phrasal verb

• The eggshell walls painted over and over and over again.
  — Diana Ruzova, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• Any spillover paint was painted over with opaque white.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 July 2023
• Catalino Bravo wears the face of a clown, white paint over his black skin, a nose daubed red.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• Her breasts are painted over with two pink daisies, which could be read as a bikini or pasties.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• In Nevada, there are Jews who have hidden any signs of their faith, painting over the mezuzahs that hang outside their homes.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
• To prevent the new color from bleeding through, paint over the tape with the original wall color first.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Within 24 hours it had been defaced, with her skin painted over in pink and the anti-hate message erased.
  — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 14 Aug. 2024
• City workers painted over the names on the anti-monument.
  — Luis Antonio Rojas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• The artist arrays small pictures, sometimes painted over old books, and often text.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
• The Johnstons had a gold leaf ceiling applied in the dining room, which another owner in the 1960’s painted over.
  — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 13 May 2024
• The Johnstons had a gold-leaf ceiling applied in the dining room, which another owner in the 1960s painted over.
  — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 17 May 2024
• Kent Twitchell invoked both of these laws in a lawsuit after his mural of fellow artist Ed Ruscha was painted over in 2006.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• While the decision to paint over Rubens’ work may seem confounding to modern art lovers, the practice was not uncommon at the time.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Julio Urias no longer has a locker in the Dodgers’ clubhouse and the team covered up or painted over spots around Dodger Stadium where his image was.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• Once all the footage had been edited, production designer James Clyne and his team would paint over the frames and add in the sci-fi aspects afterward.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
• The next day, Martinez realized that Selena’s and Rivera’s stars had been painted over again.
  — Isabel Yip, NBC News, 10 July 2024
• The Dodgers have given his locker to someone else (Kolten Wong) and covered up or painted over any mural that featured Urías.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• The olive green has been painted over with illustrations of colorful sea life.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024
• To create a roller heavy enough to push the paint over such a large surface, Marshall added weight plates to a cast-iron roller typically used to install linoleum flooring.
  — Kerry James Marshall, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• Offending portions of the painting were soon painted over.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 25 July 2023
• Each piece was made of a composite and painted over with a delicate veined marble design.
  — Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 22 Apr. 2023
• Video taken from inside the gallery Wednesday afternoon showed two men spraying pink paint over the portrait of the new monarch, which was commissioned in 2018.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 27 July 2023
• While sandblasting paint from the iron gates on the mansion’s front door, workers discovered gold gilding that had been painted over for decades.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• The couple are especially fond of the cozy woodsy tones, which many people might paint over to suit today's proclivity for white trim.
  — Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Two large murals that featured Urías prominently at the loge-level entrances in left field and right field were covered or painted over.
  — Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The artist's father purchased the property in 1859 and allowed his son to experiment liberally in the space with his brushes and paints over the decade.
  — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
• Another person would use the product to clean up headstones in cemeteries that had been painted over.
  — Mars King, Twin Cities, 12 Aug. 2024
• The monument was defaced in 2019, when vandals painted over its window.
  — Katharina Schuster, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Users will pick a cow and race through a course, avoiding obstacles, collecting powerups and painting over burger-centric billboards along the way.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
• The government erased or painted over the graffiti, but protesters came back with new images and messages.
  — Pouya Afshar, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024