How to Use spray paint in a Sentence
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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 -
Gold spray paint shines up the stem, while black spray paint covers the body.
— Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2024 -
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 -
Using a paint sprayer or spray paint is also an option.
— Kenzi Wilbur, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2024 -
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
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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.
— Heather Hollingsworth, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023 -
Salmon has said that Lester's home was egged and spray-painted after the shooting.
— CBS News, 31 Aug. 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 -
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 -
Police there recently arrested a 62-year-old in connection to vandalism incidents in which Asian slurs were spray-painted across Min’s campaign signs.
— Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
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