Sentence examples for veneer of thin from inspiring English sources

The brick-faced concrete walls were left exposed on the exteriors, but the interiors were lavishly decorated with a veneer of thin slabs of coloured stone held in place by metal fasteners that engaged slots cut in the edges of the slabs, a technique still used in the 20th century.

Generally, a wooden tambourine frame consists of several layers of thin veneer and metal jingles.

The thin veneer of apparent normality is cracking up.

This amnesia is enabled by a thin veneer of multiculturalism.

We have adopted only a thin veneer of modernity.

But the result is not just biography with a thin veneer of embellishment.

The bedrock is crumpled into great waves underneath its thin veneer of soil.

Another type of terrace is cut into bedrock and may have a thin veneer of alluvium, or sedimentary deposits.

The plateaus and hillsides have a thin veneer of loamy soils, while the plains and valleys have fertile alluvial soils.

A thin veneer of nitrogen or methane ice could effectively hide the spectral signature of water ice.

In Mr. Mahalchick's best work an almost devotional sense of precision shines through a thin veneer of slovenliness.