Sentence examples for laminate from inspiring English sources

A single example, plucked at random from a lifetime's supply: years ago, after I'd been bickering with a friend who was visiting my flat in London, she fell silent for several minutes and then, pointing to my wooden floors, observed, "You know that floor's laminate, don't you?" (It was laminate. I'd been lying to myself for years that it was pine).

If you've inherited a naff kitchen with dodgy laminate cupboards, paint them using chalk-effect kitchen paint by B&Q or Annie Sloan.

The process may be as unglamorous as the location, but this is the stuff of entrepreneurial dreams.It is the first machine in the world, according to inventor Carlos Ludlow-Palafox, that can recycle a type of packaging called plastic aluminium laminate.

One proposal is to laminate the electrical circuitry.

Then they stack these one on top of another, like layers of a sandwich, sinter them together at a temperature of 800°C, and laminate them.

By the 1980s the building industry had mastered the art of shortcuts, from wafer-thin veneers to quick-fit laminate floors.

These are the "successive coats that laminate our political ideals", as Mr Schudson puts it; and each coat is tattered, so that the earlier ones show through.

Plastic laminate, widely used for table and other tops, is obtainable in various colours and designs and in photographically reproduced natural wood grain.

In the field of building materials, Deskey invented a high-pressure laminate known as Weldtex.

In Old World Asparagus (which includes the former families Protasparagus and Myrsiphyllum), the true leaves are reduced to scales or spines, but terminal internodes of the stem form cladodes (leaflike, green organs that are filiform to variously laminate).

Between 1973 and 1999 he built up a firm called TCI by buying rural cable-TV operators, consolidating a fragmented industry from a scruffy office in Denver with plastic-laminate floors.