How to Use spray paint in a Sentence

spray paint

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• Give a few pinecones a light coat of white spray paint and let dry.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
• The sign on the door was faded from the sun and some of the back windows were tagged with spray paint.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2024
• On the front seat was a white smiley face drawn with spray paint.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• Shattered glass and the name Cyrus in spray paint can be seen on the outside of the store in the photos.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
• And that’s just the spray paint and marker ones—some were even more fleeting.
  — Hazlitt, 6 July 2022
• On the sides of his white sports car, in stark black spray paint, was a clear drawing of a swastika.
  — Lux Butler, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2024
• At one point, the victim got ahold of the spray paint and painted Winston’s face, too.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 6 Aug. 2023
• The stencil can be filled with ozone-friendly spray paint or acrylic paint.
  — Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
• The stickers on the memorial were removed and crews were working to get rid of the spray paint.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 8 May 2024
• His home had been vandalized with black spray paint and eggs over the weekend.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2023
• Repeat the process as necessary to remove the spray paint.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2024
• Someone painted a racial slur and swastikas on his red Ford Mustang in black spray paint.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 8 Jan. 2024
• Ahead of the Grammy Awards held at Crypto.com Arena, dozens of floors of the skyscraper were tagged with colorful spray paint.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• When putting the spray paint and latex paint on the wall, Eickhoff will have to look out for vehicles whizzing behind him.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
• In general, spray paint helps target hard-to-reach spots.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2024
• The outside of the gas station also was vandalized with spray paint, Lott said.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
• Take two hula hoops and transform them with copper spray paint.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
• Along with Gabby and Baby Box figurines, this set comes with arts and crafts supplies like spray paint, an easel, and a paint brush.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 1 June 2024
• While the lines are sharp on features like the lips and eyes, the hair and other details are blurred with spray paint, adding a layer of softness to each portrait.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• The burglars also used spray paint in their efforts to break into homes, police said.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
• Along the way, the team also performed a chemical analysis of the spray paint pigments.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• Moy reported one side of the street-facing sign att 1490 Broadway was defaced with black spray paint.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2023
• Separate half the magnolia branches and paint them with two coats of metallic gold spray paint.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2023
• The 2017 work—made with spray paint on canvas—displays a man setting up to throw a bouquet of flowers across three various-sized frames.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2024
• Ben-Uliel prepared a bag with two bottles of incendiary liquid, rags, a lighter, a box of matches, gloves and black spray paint.
  — Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024
• Cut out the cat silhouettes on medium-density fiberboard and spray paint them black.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
• Once checked and cleared, officials would spray paint each pallet and load it on U.S. military ships to transit to Ashdod.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 28 June 2024
• Creators then choose a spray paint color, often opting for classic shades like black, white, silver, or gold, to give the hula hoops a fresh look.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Aug. 2023
• Surveillance video shows a man in a light-colored hoodie and dark pants and Nikes shaking a can of spray paint inside the bar before any damage was done.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Over the next two months, Labarge paid the men $1,500 to spray paint the victims’ houses with profanities and throw bricks through their windows, according to officials.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 26 July 2024

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spray-paint

2 of 2 verb

• Then, spray-paint the pumpkins to achieve the candy corn look.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2023
• Some of the trees left standing had been spray-painted with a big blue G.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024
• Salmon said Lester has been forced to live away from his home, which has been egged and spray-painted.
  — USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• Tape off and spray-paint a stripe, if desired. Create a memo board out of an old sign.
  — Laurren Welch, Country Living, 17 Apr. 2023
• The vandals spray-painted the front of the building and plastered posters on the front door, police said.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
• Salmon has said that Lester's home was egged and spray-painted after the shooting.
  — CBS News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Salmon has said that Lester’s home was egged and spray-painted after the shooting.
  — Heather Hollingsworth, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
• On the rear seat, someone had spray-painted a swastika.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• Salmon has said Lester’s home was egged and spray-painted after the shooting.
  — Heather Hollingsworth, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• Around noon, a young man from Hong Kong arrived with a bag of spray-paint and daubed the first new graffiti on the white wall.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
• Purchase a fir wreath and spray-paint it lightly and evenly with white paint.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
• One drone, sitting on a desk in the training school, is spray-painted a bright orange.
  — Justin Ling, WIRED, 2 May 2024
• One bar had been bashed in with a hammer while all the TVs were spray-painted with graffiti.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• The message was also spray-painted on lamp-posts and doorways, and anywhere else the words would fit.
  — Ben Krull, New York Daily News, 22 July 2024
• Coat a plastic plant saucer (ours is 13 inches; size up as needed) with blue spray-paint.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 30 July 2023
• Someone spray-painted the restroom walls and damaged a sink.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
• Some of the phrases spray-painted on the vehicles were anti-Black slurs.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
• Cyrus Carmack-Belton's name was spray-painted on the facade of the store.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 30 May 2023
• The N-word was spray-painted next to a swastika, along with a profane message, on the vehicles.
  — Lux Butler, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2024
• Rather than labeled, each bottle is spray-painted in a homage to the city’s graffiti.
  — Malaika Ng Julia Berick Kate Guadagnino Jameson Montgomery Jinnie Lee Monica Mendal, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• In June, seven swastikas were found spray-painted in a Clifton park between two Jewish schools.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• The word agape — referencing the highest form of love, according to the ancient Greeks — is even spray-painted across a wall in the billiard room.
  — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2023
• Mounds of bikes, some stripped down to component parts, others freshly spray-painted.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
• As the store approached its opening date, one of her sons, Pax, helped spray-paint the Atelier Jolie logo onto a canvas draping the doorway.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• The colorful images spray-painted on floor-to-ceiling windows stretch the height of the towers and are an inescapable sight from great distances.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
• In the days and weeks that followed, the community came together to clean up the broken glass and scrub the graffiti spray-painted on storefronts.
  — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
• Attendees at his show spray-painted a wedding dress, creating their own work of art.
  — Ivy Manners, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• The artist came to her with an idea inspired by Alexander McQueen’s iconic runway moment of two robots spray-painting a dress.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2023
• In December, a racial epithet was spray-painted on the home of a star high school quarterback in Allen, prompting the family to change schools.
  — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
• Photos and drone footage captured the the walls of the multi-story property in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood engulfed in spray-paint on Tuesday.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024