5. Paint (noun)

1. I'm not very good at painting. 2. There was an old iron bed, with rust showing through the white paint. 3. But she could find no paint. 4. Curious faces turned in her direction, faces some plain some pretty but all innocent of paint and powder. 5. In recent years, lead levels have fallen as regulations have curbed lead in paint, gas and other products.6. Manufacturers of the device said it would add about 25 cents to the cost of a can of spray paint. 7. The kit is sold complete apart from paint, with the machining work carried out by Rotorway. 8. The state Air Resources Board can not ban spray paint. 9. The use of Colour Index Generic Names, enables us to know which pigments are being used in each paint. 10. A lot of people think diversity is affirmative action with a different coat of paint. 11. After the war they were concealed by a coat of paint, but not destroyed. 12. Graham smiled and crossed the road to the sorting office, smelling its new coat of paint. 13. He put another coat of paint on the secondhand crib while Marina was in the hospital. 14. Since that time the shop at the works receiving another coat of paint and final decoration. 15. The problem is, most governments have acquired several dozen coats of paint and layer upon layer of barnacles. 16. The sculpture received a fresh coat of paint in 1975 and will be repainted if it is scratched or damaged. 17. Then the first coats of paint were applied, either by the dipping method, or by brush.

To paint

1. All the children had painted their faces. 2. Anna usually paints in the afternoons. 3. Don't wear that shirt when you're painting. 4. Geraint was sitting on the beach, painting the seagulls and the fishing boats. 5. Her lips and fingernails were painted bright red. 6. I'm going to paint a picture of the church. 7. I'm going to paint the bathroom tomorrow. 8. My neighbor painted that picture. 9. Sarah painted the table blue. 10. The exhibition focuses on the urban pictures painted by Camille Pissarro in the last decade of his career. 11. The pictures in Paul Gunn's exhibition were all landscapes, most beautifully painted in oils. 12. The walls were painted tomato red, with matching red drapes. 13. We really need to paint the bedroom. 14. What colour did you paint the doors? 15. Background painted with 3030 B70G, Collector, matt emulsion from the Definitions range by Dulux, £15.49/2.5 litres. 16. He is going to paint my portrait.

Painter

1. Adolf Hitler worked as a house painter in Austria before becoming involved in politics. 2. Turner was probably the greatest landscape painter that England has ever produced. 3. Modigliani arrived quite sober for the occasion but when the two painters came to discuss their work the conversation became dangerously frigid. 4. Yet Lowry was a popular hero who, when he died in 1977, was the most famous painter in Britain. 5. The most famous painters, musicians and writers chose to live and work in Venice above all other cities. 6. Indeed, he was both an amateur painter and a musician in a rock band that met at weekends. 7. Jill Duffy, an ex-shop assistant married to a painter and decorator, is one of these women. 8. Robert, a painter and decorator, married Sandra at Christmas after their partners died of cancer, it was revealed.

Painting

1. Dali did several paintings of his wife. 2. Gaugin is famous for his paintings of native women on the Pacific island of Tahiti. 3. He's taking a class in drawing and painting. 4. The museum has an impressive collection of early 20th century American paintings. 5. The only faces that greeted them belonged to sundry dead abbots glaring down from dusky oil paintings. 6. Side by side were two well-executed oil paintings of the same man. 7. Mrs Ruben, a Washington area resident since 1962, displayed and sold paintings at local galleries. 8. Then he went on to complain that even business was bad, as he had sold only two small paintings. 9. November 28 also sees the close of Michael Biberstein's exhibition of recent landscape paintings at the Montenay. 10. I wonder what future generations will see in our contemporary landscape paintings.11. By the end of the century landscape painting for its own sake was established. 12. Watercolours are easy - they dry; but oil paintings need time. 13. But what held his attention was a large oil painting propped on a chair and fronting the door. 14. Still life inspired by oil paintings of the Old Masters.