How to Use spray paint in a Sentence

spray paint

1 of 2 noun
  • Give a few pinecones a light coat of white spray paint and let dry.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • To make: Apply a few even layers of silver spray paint to nine plastic skeleton hands (available at dollar stores).
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The Descendants alum paired the gorgeous blouse with baggy Y/Project cargo jeans with matching blue spray paint and a super high-waisted fit.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Only remnants of the red spray paint on the bell were visible after its first treatment Thursday morning.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 25 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
  • 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
  • Unfortunately, some also spray-paint the rocks, which is more difficult to clear away.
    Robert Annis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Words and drawings were spray-painted on other pieces of public and private property.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2023

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