How to Use stencil in a Sentence

stencil

1 of 2 noun

• The walls of the living room had a delicate vine stencil drawn on them.
• There even is a stencil class based on the works of Banksy.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
• Pink, first — long and loose across a stencil of a man’s face.
  — Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
• Use stamps or stencils to achieve crisp lines and even shapes.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
• The kit comes with stencils to help with their designs, too.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Bsn, Parents, 15 Nov. 2023
• Cut the same-size square from the glitter paper to use as stencil.
  — Kristin Koch, Seventeen, 9 Nov. 2020
• Place the star stencil just below the middle of the bodice and lightly brush black paint around the edges.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 15 July 2020
• The stencil can be filled with ozone-friendly spray paint or acrylic paint.
  — Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
• Pave the way for your backyard makeover with a stencil (yes, a stencil).
  — Jody Garlock, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2023
• Then, starting with a little paint at a time, dab paint around the stencil with a foam brush.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 27 June 2022
• To make: Draw a 3-inch-wide maple leaf shape on a piece of cardboard and cut out to create a stencil.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
• Then, hold to stencil on the apple of your cheek and fill it in with your go-to concealer.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 8 Feb. 2018
• For some in the food world, the gray and gold stencil of a face with spiky hair and sunglasses carries the weight of an Olympic gold medal.
  — Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2022
• Use the stencil to cut 5 small squares from glitter paper.
  — Sarah Newell, Seventeen, 12 Sep. 2018
• Bus pavement stencils will be installed in the lane next week.
  — oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2019
• Carving with this Halloween stencil is sure to be a hoot.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
• In this work, the text makes the eye shudder with a stencil motif that includes the blue as part of the lettering.
  — John Zotos, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2021
• One is the title text while the other features a black stencil of a boy and girl, walking hand in hand.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Glamour, 8 July 2018
• Both sturdy and stylish, kids can draw and stencil designs on the helmet, and then erase and start over for a fresh look.
  — ABC News, 14 Dec. 2022
• If using a stencil, trace the design with a large nail to give yourself a head start with the cutting.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 15 Oct. 2020
• The frame dilates and expands in circular and oval stencils around the footage on screen.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2019
• If you're crunched for time, use a stencil and powdered sugar to add a simple fall image to the top of your pie.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2020
• Use stickers or a stencil to make a clever sign, and mix up a batch of one of our Halloween punch recipes to serve to party guests.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2022
• Use stencil to punch out design, then lay top pie crust over filling.
  — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 19 July 2021
• Trace a heart shape using a pencil, and stencil the outline of the LOVE or another word.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Jan. 2023
• Give the gift of flawless winged eyeliner with this stencil set.
  — Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 10 Sep. 2022
• There are straight lines, pictures of animals, groups of dots and hand stencils.
  — NBC News, 22 Feb. 2018
• Because the tuft of hair would serve as the perfect stencil for a triangle tattoo, of course!
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
• His target, a cardboard stencil of a human body, dangled from an easel across the room.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2021
• Use stencils to carve pawprints and dog bones into pumpkins, and display them by your front door.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023

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stencil

2 of 2 verb

• We stenciled the room's walls.
• The base of the box is stenciled with highlights of Thomas’s life.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
• All were stenciled around the same time with the same pigment.
  — National Geographic, 29 Feb. 2016
• One big trend of the era was stenciling—and Church ran wild with it.
  — Cator Sparks, House Beautiful, 3 May 2019
• Those words were stenciled behind the mound as well and flashed on the scoreboard throughout the game.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• His name was Rodney, and his last name, Smith, was stenciled across the back of his sweatshirt.
  — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• Michelle wore a pale-pink blouse stenciled with water lilies.
  — Jesse Barron, Esquire, 23 Aug. 2017
• The design can also be found stenciled in gold paint on the walls at Spinning J.
  — Audrey Gorden, RedEye Chicago, 23 May 2017
• Both names are stenciled on the driver and passenger doors of the fightertruck.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• Below it, on a cardboard sign, the new name has been neatly stenciled in red spray paint.
  — Kyra Gurney, miamiherald, 29 Oct. 2017
• Line 2 large baking sheets with the paper, stenciled side down.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 2 Oct. 2017
• There will be a Lakers yellow and purple flag with 24 on one side and 8 on the other, and the numbers will be stenciled on the green as well.
  — Arizona Republic, azcentral, 1 Feb. 2020
• The double barrel vault ceiling has stenciled sea shells and arabesques.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Up close, their surfaces look like braille, or code, sometimes stenciled over many times.
  — Vogue, 28 Oct. 2017
• These are the faces that appear on placards at protests, the portraits that are stenciled in spray paint, the names that stand for the far more numerous unnamed.
  — Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Someone should stencil that on a plaque so Isa Grullon can add that to the wall in her newspaper office.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2021
• The Rangers held a moment of silence before the game, stenciled Skaggs’s No.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 2 July 2019
• Or stencil a graphic red and white print all over the walls of a cramped living space, which Paige Davis told us was one of her all-time favorite spaces.
  — Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 3 Apr. 2018
• The cabinetry was designed and built by the family's father, while the mother hand-stenciled the walls.
  — Elizabeth Finkelstein, Country Living, 17 Dec. 2017
• White polka dots are stenciled onto glass panels lining the front of the building.
  — Motoko Rich, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• Experts rebuilt the pattern and stencilled the designs.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2019
• Follow the steps below to learn how to stencil a concrete patio for a budget-friendly makeover.
  — Jody Garlock, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2023
• In order to complete this commandment, the scribe will leave the last few lines of the new Torah unfinished, stenciling in where the letters will be placed.
  — Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2019
• Forrest’s dog crate, which sits in a corner of the main room, is camouflaged with a hand-stenciled, black-and-white West African blanket, bought at the Brooklyn Flea.
  — Michelle Higgins, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
• Yawkey’s initials are stenciled in Morse code on both edifices.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• Paint or stencil your name or house number on each for a simple but elegant take on a front porch display.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 20 June 2023
• The Jesus line is written in loose, white block letters; the one about zombies is stenciled neatly onto pale zinc.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• Although the grave contained socks stenciled with the name Mulligan, no match was made, and the remains were reburied in 1950 in a U.S. cemetery in Manila.
  — Author: Dave Philipps, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2018
• The ceiling is stenciled with black-and-white children’s drawings that brings to mind a crew of miniature Tiepolos supine on scaffolding, doodling upward.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2023
• Her show often featured guest crafters with a particular expertise — in stenciling, for instance, or coffee can creations.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023

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