Sentence examples for slick paint from inspiring English sources

the driver of a modified Honda Civic may acknowledge the huge tail-wing and slick paint job of an Acura Integra with a thumbs up.

And I began the way you might expect a city-dwelling, subway-riding, pale-skinned, confrontation-avoiding, middle-age fellow to begin: tentatively, grinding the gears occasionally, underusing the power in my control, and naturally terrified of an accident or even of scratching the slick paint job that probably cost more than all of my furniture.

Many collectors carry magnets to test a car for body filler ("Bondo" when it's plastic) under many a slick paint job.

Fears that a slick of paint, residual fuel, small quantities of heavy metal and rotting food — including more than 3 tons of melon, more than 130 gallons of olive oil and 8 tons of beef — would emerge from the ship proved unfounded, officials said.

Mr. Slick, a painting professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, and a descendant of the Fauk and Meskwaki of Iowa and the Nebraska Winnebago, looks more generally at the history and reality of being a Native American today.

This slick professionally painted plank of wood, complete with Schaefer logos in full color on either end, was about 4 feet high by about 30 feet long.

THE apartment was as white and shiny as an iPod; its walls were slick with Benjamin Moore High Gloss Pure White paint -- even the television set wore white vinyl.

We sent photographer Álvaro Martínez García down, to take in the face paint, slick all-leather outfits and rainbow scarf-wearing dogs.

Too often — minus the telltale details that provide a sense of scale and also implicate human actions — the images read first and foremost as slick jokes about painting.

A slick, billboard-size painting of Mitt Romney resembling a campaign ad made, presumably with ironic intent by Richard Phillips, pictures the opposition, but a rousing spirit of unity does not emerge from the clamor of different identity groups.

The slick, flat-colored painting "Tintin and Your Kids" explores the early Nazi sympathies of Hergé, the Belgian creator of the comic character Tintin, as well as the racist tinge of his children's book "Tintin in the Congo".