Sentence examples for weathered paint from inspiring English sources

As a result, the patina of preserved cars — weathered paint, worn leather and pitted chrome — have led to incidents of false patination.

But in the late 1950s he discovered that automotive detritus was both plentiful and already covered in wonderfully weathered paint that looked as if Willem de Kooning himself had put it there.

The boxy white building with weathered paint in Echo Park offers few clues that colorful, fanciful puppets dance inside.

Ettun actually makes these inflatables herself by sewing together old hot air balloons, which explains the weathered, paint-splattered sewing machine sitting on a desk right outside.

Weathered house paint chimes with the faded chiffon of a fluttering shoulder.

Its weathered white paint flaking off of the wooden planks that carried it to the sky.

At Resto Léon, a snug, brick-walled onetime stable on East 12th Street near First Avenue, candlelight bounces off a dented zinc bar, touches a menu-scrawled mirror, skims glass shelves and ancient ornaments, and warms a weathered martini sign painted on brick.

The British Museum misguidedly restored Elgin's marbles in the 1930s, scouring away the natural weathered patina and fragments of original paint to reach a white finish, a finish that is unnatural to the stone itself.

With its weathered blue and white paint, it looked comfortably well used.

The building is still under wraps from a facade cleaning that has removed a deliciously weathered coat of green paint from the underlying brick.

More intriguing still are Aaron Siskind's photographs of cracked, peeling paint on weathered surfaces, which possess a tangible sense of materiality and a tonal quality that speaks of time passing and, with it, the slow, inexorable decay of buildings, objects and those who created them.