Sentence examples for paint benches from inspiring English sources

Dear Diary: During the recent National Volunteer Week I led a group of 25 of my Fleet Bank colleagues to the playground next to the Jacob Schiff School in Harlem to paint benches and a retaining wall that surrounded the playground.

In this case, they spend most of their time picking up trash -- 10, 15 bags per person, per day -- and beautifying parks by painting benches, pruning bushes and planting seeds.

He and a few other students were in the park every Saturday for years, removing hundreds of bags of garbage, painting benches and weeding and planting lawns and flowers.

Other topics: "The fact that this chair, I keep sliding off it," Mr. Galligan said of the booth's freshly painted bench.

In reality, service learning often seems unconnected to any curriculum — painting park benches, for example.

Cara Delevingne wore it at Burberry; Richard Nicoll not only put it on his catwalk, but painted the benches to match.

Good deeds included someone who paid a neighbour's vet bill, a resident who gave warm clothes to a rough sleeper and youngsters who painted public benches.

The area's economically depressed teen-agers are put to work cleaning the area, as well as setting up basketball teams in the playgrounds, planting trees in parks and gardening and painting park benches.

Similarly, Gheorghe Funar, an ultra-nationalist who in the 1990s was mayor of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, is remembered only for a semi-official Ponzi scheme and for painting park benches in national colours.Usually the far right has been de-fanged in a ruling coalition.

Whether creating havens for battered women, taking meals to the terminally ill, painting park benches, attending her children's school events or caring for her sister who was left incapacitated by a car accident, Ms. Hedges has been a volunteer force in Manhattan, forging extra hours in her day to improve the lives of others.

Paint the bench (with outdoor paint if you intend to put it outside), if you want to.