Sentence examples for broken canvas from inspiring English sources

"What's he hiding from?" He stood in our neat kitchen with its blue Formica surfaces, as improbable — in his collarless shirt, waistcoat, and broken canvas shoes, with a scrap of vermillion scarf at his neck — as an exotic bird blown off course.

The building is a wreck of smashed sculptures, torn canvas and broken glass.

Smooth canvas is broken up and interrupted into various shapes like folds of origami paper, creating a fresh new interpretation of traditional works using new technologies.

The repair work involved gathering hundreds of microscopic fragments of paint which broke off the canvas in the vandalism.

Staccato strokes of lead can be heard from her canvas, breaking the courtroom's tense silence.

Collapsible B floated away from the ship upside down, while Collapsible A became half-filled with water after the supports for its canvas sides were broken in the fall from the roof of the officers' quarters.

Think broken tent-poles, tears in your tent canvas, even holes in your wellies.

Two rounds into the fight, Clay had broken Clark's nose and dropped him to the canvas twice, and the referee ended it there.

Once you've disposed of dead leaves, broken branches, and overgrown weeds you have a clean canvas for improving.

Ken switches on the overhead white fluorescent lights, which flatten the canvas and break the painting's spell.

In the last painting in the show, made in 1929, Mancini's mutterings break out onto the canvas.