Sentence examples for like a paint from inspiring English sources
Q Like a paint by numbers.
It has lots of options, like a paint palette.
"It was muffled; it sounded like a paint gun".
He enjoys science and inventing gadgets, like a paint brush cleaner.
The clever cocktail list fans out like a paint wheel, the drinks named after actual Pantone colors.
The significance of organic shapes is one concept effectively suggested, for example, in several references to Frederick Kiesler's "Endless House" that are adjacent to a powerful drawing by Willem de Kooning and an undulating abstract sculpture by Pollock that looks like a paint blob seeking its own boundaries.
And they still end up sounding like a paint-by-numbers spoof of lug-headed meat-rock.
While MTV's reboot feels like a paint-by-numbers remake, there is one key element missing: the honest discussion of class and societal status.
And, as if to confirm this, Natalia Yovane, Ms. Minter's "blocker," was filling in what looked like a paint-by-number schema devised either to blind a person or drive her onto a ledge.
It is now coming back into shy usage again, purged of its old associations like a paint-thickened door plunged into an acid bath and coming out all shiny new pine.
What all feels a bit like a paint-by-numbers exercise, however, gradually opens out into a genuinely moving story about a woman trying to negotiate two cultures, balancing her parents' expectations with her own aspirations, her ambition and cynical practicality with deeper, more romantic yearnings.
