Sentence examples for use a coat of from inspiring English sources

The Church at Dawn It's a plain old church and it could use a coat of paint.

Last week at Municipal Hall, a shedlike building near the ski mountain and one of the few places in Whistler that could use a coat of paint, Melamed clarified his earlier position on the Games.

Sure, the windows need repair, the house could use a coat of paint, the lawn needs to be cut.

("Guess it could use a coat of paint," says Mike, "something warmer, like a light brown or a medium yellow"). Its state of disrepair allows for some good visual jokes, which have that flavor of being utterly expected and a complete surprise.

If the officers of arms were not presented with sufficient proof of the right to use a coat of arms, they were also empowered to deface monuments which bore these arms and to force persons bearing such arms to sign a disclaimer that they would cease using them.

Decide whether the walls and ceilings could use a coat of fresh paint.

LCD screens, for example, could use a coating of graphene instead of indium tin oxide, which is expensive, to conduct electricity across their surface.

You could also use a coating of glue sprinkled with sand if you'd prefer.

This would explain why Ogilby, who grew up believing he was the son of a tailor, suddenly began using a coat of arms.

At another pumping station, which moves crude through one of two critically important pipelines for export from platforms in the Persian Gulf, the equipment was oil-encrusted and generally could have used a coat of paint, but it seemed to be functioning.

John Winthrop used a coat of arms that was reportedly confirmed by the College of Arms, London, to his paternal uncle in 1592.