Sentence examples for flakes of paint from inspiring English sources

To keep the painted inscriptions from peeling off, conservators use syringes to inject an adhesive resin under the curling flakes of paint.

The skin often takes something with it: not just the impression of a door or room, but flakes of paint or vanish, a residue of dust, the imprint of splinters, cracks or nails.

The figures and many of the architectural details were painted in bright colours, and the colouring scheme has been deduced from flakes of paint still adhering to some surfaces.

The plastic sheeting will shed flakes of paints when it flexes, and most painting mats are intended for one use only; they can hold only so much paint dust before they become ineffective.

You can see each flake of paint — more clearly, really, than if you stood inches away.

Oh, Big Bird and P.B.S., sure, but that's like saying you'll tear down a house by chipping a single flake of paint from the garage.

The recreation of their original appearance for an exhibition of some of the Fitzwilliam's most treasured illuminated manuscripts, has been done digitally, without removing a flake of paint from the 500-year-old pages.

If one or more balconies of the home had layers of lead-based paint and XRF measurements were positive, an additional flake of paint was collected if possible, with the permission of the occupant.

Flakes of green paint are peeling from the third-floor windowsills.

Its floor is littered with blue and white flakes of peeled paint that evoke a vast Arctic ice pack.

The king's wooden coffin is losing flakes of gilded paint and may also be in the early stages of decay.