PAINTING in a Sentence

Learn PAINTING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for PAINTING, such as:

1. My hobbies include reading and painting.
2. This painting is typical of his early work.
3. To her expert eye, the painting was terrible.
4. Generally, I prefer painting with watercolours.
5. To an expert eye, the painting is an obvious fake.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAINTING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
painting
 n.  drawing; picture or design in paint; action of applying paint to a surface
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I never saw this great-uncle but I'm supposed to look like him--with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father's office.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  Rather a stately house of its kind, but dolefully in want of painting, and with dirty windows.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
3  I never saw, in any painting or reality, horror and compassion so impressively blended.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
4  Over the easy chair there hung in a gold frame an oval portrait of Anna, a fine painting by a celebrated artist.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
5  After trying various subjects of conversation, she got him upon painting, of which he talked very well, and she listened to him attentively.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
6  He painted studies from nature under the guidance of an Italian professor of painting, and studied mediaeval Italian life.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 9
7  He knew that by this term was understood a mechanical facility for painting or drawing, entirely apart from its subject.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 11
8  He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a perfect right to paint what they liked, but it was distasteful to him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 13
9  He had enough taste for painting to be unable to finish his picture.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 13
10  With his characteristic decision, without explanation or apology, he simply ceased working at painting.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 13
11  Although they were still at work on the cornices outside and were painting on the ground floor, upstairs almost all the rooms were finished.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 20
12  Pestsov, who was standing beside him, was talking to him almost all the time, condemning the music for its excessive affected assumption of simplicity, and comparing it with the simplicity of the Pre-Raphaelites in painting.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 5
13  You never open your lips while you are painting, and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
14  When I am painting, I can't think of anything else.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
15  I have never been in better form for painting than I am to-day.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  This painting is typical of his early work.
17  If I can't make a living at painting, at least I can teach someone else to paint.
18  This painting is a marvellous example of her work.
19  To an expert eye, the painting is an obvious fake.
20  To her expert eye, the painting was terrible.
21  The personification of evil as a devil is a feature of medieval painting.
22  He is the bowler-hatted figure in the foreground of Orpen's famous painting.
23  The figure on the left spoils the unity of the painting.
24  In spite of some immaturity in the figure drawing and painting, it showed real imagination.
25  Before painting, fill any cracks in the rendering.
26  Before painting, fill all the cracks in the plaster.
27  Finger painting is very messy but an excellent diversion.
28  Generally, I prefer painting with watercolours.
29  My hobbies include reading and painting.
30  The plastic arts include sculpture, pottery and painting.