Sentence examples for flake white from inspiring English sources

The significance of the change from sable to hogs' hair brush and flake white to Kremnitz white in the late 1950s was exaggerated.

At any given moment, Collins Avenue resembled a fever dream of a high-end S.U.V. lot: fully loaded Suburbans, customized Navigators, big-wheel Chevy Tahoes, Expeditions, Explorers and even Humvees painted candy flake white, and with monster sound systems, chrome hubcaps and flat-screen televisions inside.

"Petrol's pretty dangerous too, but we've learned how to handle it, and it's a shame that we can't do the same with flake white".

Known today as "flake white", it was prized by Old Masters such as Rembrandt because of the steadfastness of its colour and the beautiful contrasts it would bring to their oil portraits.

I grew up looking at oily concrete, cast-iron railings and slabs of fatty corned beef on flaking white bread".

Vinyl seats, flaked white goods, ironing board (though maybe all normal people have ironing boards; maybe it's just crumpled writers who don't).

Shafts of sunlight spray through the bullet holes pitting the front of patrol base Blue 25, lighting up the palm prints of dried blood on the flaking white walls.

Haas's "Maine, 1960" draws lyrical patterns with a road's white dividing line, the flaking white spokes of an abandoned wagon wheel, the fading white geometry of a decrepit farmhouse and the bent dark figure of the old farmer.

Zinnias and other annuals spill across the front of the shingle-sided building, but signs of the capricious coastal weather — the flaking white paint and sagging roof — make a more lasting impression.

4.50pm BST Discovering Columbus We pass the huge Cummins Engine plant on the south side of town, and turn back through the residential outskirts, lined with two-storey Victorian white clapboard houses with yellowy-green dry lawns, flaking white air conditioning units propping up windows, topless grandpas sitting on porches.

Behind the flaking white doors of her studio, Luvaas finds the privacy she needs to create.