Sentence examples for canvas settlement from inspiring English sources

Set amid the construction of the first transcontinental US railroad – and the shady goings-on in the attendant canvas settlement of shiftless ne'er-do-wells – it's at least as good as Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman.

We pushed the gate to find a natural amphitheatre filled with rows of small canvas tents like a forgotten Bedouin settlement.

It was not until 1971 — the beginning of a painting movement that extended out of the Papunya settlement in Northern Australia, when linen canvas was introduced — that Aboriginal artwork could easily be seen by the outside world.

Named (CANVAS).

("I'm your canvas, your — bare — canvas").

And those canvas shoes?

At Papunya, a remote government settlement for the desert people, a teacher, Geoffrey Bordon, encouraged aborigines to counter feelings of alienation by recording traditional images and themes in modern media, like acrylic paint on hardboard and later on canvas.

And what a canvas!

Or a canvas.

Both hit the canvas.

Elephant dung on canvas.