VENEER in a Sentence

Learn VENEER 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.

Example sentences for VENEER, such as:

1. He's such a bounder underneath his veneer.
2. But Mammy was under no illusions about her and was constantly alert for breaks in the veneer.
3. Casual acquaintances were deceived by his veneer of sophistication and failed to recognize his fundamental shallowness.

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 Meanings and Examples of VENEER
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veneer
 n.  thin layer; coating consisting of thin layer; ornamental coating to a building
Classic Sentence:
1  She had the easily stirred passions of her Irish father and nothing except the thinnest veneer of her mother's unselfish and forbearing nature.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  But Mammy was under no illusions about her and was constantly alert for breaks in the veneer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  He's such a bounder underneath his veneer.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  Association with the masters, missionary effort and motives of expediency gave these rites an early veneer of Christianity, and after the lapse of many generations the Negro church became Christian.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
5  With the Republicans in the political saddle the town entered into an era of waste and ostentation, with the trappings of refinement thinly veneering the vice and vulgarity beneath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
6  They were merely two-room shanties, with a seepage of broken-down chairs, peeling veneered tables, chromos pasted on wooden walls, and inefficient kerosene stoves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence:
1  Casual acquaintances were deceived by his veneer of sophistication and failed to recognize his fundamental shallowness.
2  His super-clean image gave a veneer of respectability to the new professional set-up.