How to Use unpainted in a Sentence

unpainted

adjective
  • Feather the edges, so there isn’t a distinct line where the paint meets the unpainted brick.
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Dealers would have to install new, unpainted hoods and paint them to match the car.
    Sean McLain, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
  • For now, though, its tracks and cross ties are missing on the lift hill, and huge swaths of the support beams are unpainted.
    Don Stacom, Courant Community, 4 May 2017
  • In a few places, workers have already brought the walls to their finished state, which is raw, unpainted, and rough to the touch.
    Curbed, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The petals are unpainted silver and the center is a brassy yellow.
    Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Crews kept unpainted plywood cutouts in the shape of Rodman’s hair.
    Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Much of it is unpainted and unvarnished, making the 22 rooms redolent with the scent of the forest.
    Ann Abel, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The mattress, still soaked, came to rest against an unpainted facade.
    Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Swing right, then make a quick left on Cicero Drive, which takes you to the unpainted stairs that descend to Redcliff Street.
    Zoie Matthew, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Jan. 2018
  • And there's a crossover version that adds unpainted cladding and a bit more ground clearance.
    Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Most of the area on Jenner's nails was left unpainted except for clear polish.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Next, tear off a piece of aluminum foil and wrap the unpainted half of the terra-cotta pot with it, using the rubber band as your guide.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The city has an open case against the property for unpainted boards on the exterior.
    Parker Leavitt, azcentral, 4 Nov. 2015
  • The oldest painted skull in Hallstatt dates back to about 1720, though some unpainted ones may be older.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Check unpainted, exposed screws under the dashboard for signs of rust.
    Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The flooring is hardwood, and the casings on the twin windows on each side are unpainted — a design feature found throughout the house.
    Boston.com Real Estate, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Other times, Vicky may spend up to five hours painting an unpainted piece of tiny furniture or food to look like the real thing.
    René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Connect the other end of the black (negative) jumper cable to an unpainted metal part in the dead car, as far from the battery as the cable will reach.
    Alex Leanse, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2017
  • Paramount buried utility lines, threw some dirt over the blacktop of Main Street and peeled away new siding on homes to show unpainted wood.
    Kent Jackson, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Don’t paint over unpainted bricks; call the property owners about these.
    John Stettler, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2017
  • To use it, first attach the strap to your wrist, then attach the clip to an unpainted metal part of any object that's properly grounded.
    Saira Mueller, Wired, 17 Nov. 2021
  • If the mold is on a porous surface, such as ceiling tiles or unpainted drywall, there is no way to completely get rid of it.
    Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The fourth was right-side-up, but unpainted and lacking its superstructure.
    al, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The carbon roof also is left unpainted, as are the carbon-fiber hood and wing (which are of the same material but painted on the non-Weissach RS).
    Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Carpenter bees prefer to nest in wood which is bare, weathered and unpainted.
    Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2021
  • The maple is natural and unpainted; the plywood is engineered and covered in red, green, and yellow.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2021
  • Indeed, the last production vehicle made from unpainted stainless steel was the DeLorean, the car from the Back to the Future films.
    Simon Willis, Fortune, 27 July 2023
  • There is such a man named Bud who has been e-mailing the one artist of color on Makarova’s team about the importance of preserving the beauty of unpainted rocks.
    Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 8 June 2020
  • In one Colonial Revival home from 1905, a supposed fix included unpainted boards laid atop of rotted boards.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Unlike human homes, the birdhouses go unpainted, adding to the pervading sense of melancholy.
    Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024

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