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Example sentences for "painted"

Lexicographically close words:
pains; painstaking; painstakingly; paint; paintbrush; painter; painters; painting; paintings; paintless
  1. But the master is as truly painted in the play as the other characters.

  2. Let us dare to say what is true, that since Moliere no author had better understood the human heart, or better painted the manners of his time.

  3. His friend d'Atilly painted him to nature, when he said, 'he has the heart of an honest man, but he often has the tone of a bohemian.

  4. Edinburgh; also, a miniature painted at Rome, belonging to Mr. Sharpe.

  5. The heavy hard fleet vanished, and there came out in its stead a picture of it magically painted in pure light.

  6. Week after week the condition of the troops was painted in gloomier colours by the war correspondents.

  7. Turquoise, with monogram, birds and flowers painted in white.

  8. She is painted white, a fact which led the irreverent tars to christen her "The Cement Factory.

  9. The United States cruiser, Brooklyn, painted white, is a conspicuous object in the line of foreign men-of-war.

  10. These latter ornamented their scanty raiment prettily with various designs painted in colors, and also with seeds and shells.

  11. The men make a wooden mask, which rests on a neckpiece, very ingeniously carved, and painted in colors, so as to represent the head of some bird or beast or mythological being.

  12. Boats as well as paddles are ornamented with painted figures, and the family coat-of-arms.

  13. The natives on the northern coast of Chiriquí painted the body in wavy lines, from the shoulders to the heels; through the cartilage of the nose they stuck a porcupine-quill, and in the chin the tooth of a wild beast.

  14. Wafer mentions that upon some occasions, he who had killed an enemy cut off his own hair as a distinguishing mark of triumph, and painted himself black, continuing so painted until the first new moon.

  15. This hat is sometimes painted with various figures, and sometimes interwoven with gay feathers of the woodpecker or blue quail.

  16. Farther south, and inland, some of the sticks are painted with red rings, and the player's skill or luck consists in naming the number and marks of sticks previously wrapped by his antagonist in grass.

  17. They were dressed in a kirt of blanket, the upper portion of their bodies being naked and painted red.

  18. The grave-box is often covered with painted figures of birds, fishes, and animals.

  19. The women painted the upper part of their bodies brown.

  20. They painted the face and all exposed parts of the body in many colors, using white or yellow with black and red, covering themselves from the waist upward with a variety of designs and figures.

  21. They appear like actors or masqueraders dressed up and painted for amusement, or like swindlers endeavouring to pass themselves off for well-known and respectable members of society.

  22. Then it seemed to him as if the dome gradually retired, escaping from his gaze, and that the figures and attributes painted by Lebrun became darker and darker as the distance became more and more remote.

  23. Lebrun had painted on the vaulted ceiling the happy, as well as disagreeable, dreams with which Morpheus affects kings as well as other men.

  24. The god Morpheus, the presiding deity of the dome painted by Lebrun, had extended his influence over the adjoining rooms, and showered down his most sleep-inducing poppies upon the master of the house.

  25. Fouquet opened the letter and read it, and instantly a vague terror, which D'Artagnan did not fail to penetrate, was painted upon the countenance of the first minister.

  26. His imagination painted the fields of Africa in the environs of Gigelli, where M.

  27. Her Majesty's theatre had been newly painted and embellished, and all London was on the tiptoe of excitement at the prospect of the inauguration of the new salle.

  28. After a visit to his artist friends in London, he resumed his mill life, and in 1779 he finally commenced his artistic career, and painted all the country round.

  29. At Stoke Nayland he painted an altar-piece for the church.

  30. The monument is kept in order, and painted occasionally, as directed by the Earl of Northampton, out of the endowment of his hospital at Greenwich.

  31. It is a striking object at high water, but by no means so striking as the sign of the village public-house—the head of a huge wooden lion painted with the brightest of reds.

  32. He was a member of a musical club, and painted some of the portraits of his brother members in his picture of a choir.

  33. Leslie once remarked to Redgrave that he would give any work he had painted for it, so warmly did he admire it.

  34. Her body having been painted half red and half black, she was attached to a sort of gibbet and roasted for some time over a slow fire, then shot to death with arrows.

  35. On one side of the avenue stands a row of wooden posts, usually mere trunks of trees with the bark peeled off, but sometimes rudely carved and painted with designs in red and black.

  36. Theocritus has painted for us in glowing colours a picture of a rustic harvest-home, as it fell on a bright autumn day some two thousand years ago in the little Greek island of Cos.

  37. A crow’s foot had been painted at the corner of each eye, and a line drawn from the nose to the corners of the lips.

  38. There are sure to be two or three men who make that their business, for young naval officers are constantly getting into scrimmages, and must want to have their eyes painted before they go back on board.

  39. And he already felt the approach of a shadow menacing the glory of his sunlight--already stood alert and fixedly observant of a young man who had painted something disquieting into an unfinished canvas.

  40. Never before had her sense of colour and form and beauty been so exquisitely satisfied by the painted magic of any living painter.

  41. He had added: "Enthusiasm is excellent while you're dressing for breakfast; but good pictures are painted in cold blood.

  42. Annan had a portrait of his sister Alice, poorly painted and even recognised by some of her more intimate friends.

  43. That man and the young girl whom he had painted to the astonishment and inward disturbance of José Querida, were having no easy time in that new world which they had created for themselves.

  44. Annan laughed, but Ogilvy said seriously: "I mean that Kelly has painted something interesting.

  45. Here we have no mere jejune text, but also the characters and the scenery painted unstintingly by the author, and all ready to be gummed on cardboard and strut and fret their five minutes on the toy stage.

  46. She was built out of a long cardboard box, and had the lines of her ports painted on with ink, and the portholes were cut out.

  47. Some painted three centuries ago I thought very fine, but Musch said they were lacking in self-consciousness.

  48. This picture was painted in exactly 125 hours.

  49. One of the passenger coaches painted red bore a large Roman II.

  50. Another thing struck him in a very forcible manner: on either side of the gallery were hung rectangular steel plates, measuring roughly ten feet by six, and painted in a medley of colours.

  51. It was a large destroyer, painted a dull grey.

  52. Captain Jan van Hoes, the skipper of the botter Maas, was sitting on the brightly painted skylight of his craft.

  53. Unlike the British dirigible, the craft was painted a dull grey on her under body and an olive green above the line of her greatest perimeter.

  54. The name painted on the two smashed boats had been ripped from their sterns, and everything that would float was locked securely in cabins or made fast.

  55. We found the ring-buoys hacked to bits, especially that section of them which had the steamer's name painted on the side.

  56. I, "these foreign women be worse than painted sepulchres.

  57. He carried his hat under his arm, a coloured cane dangled from his right wrist, his left hand carried a gold snuffbox with a lady painted on the outside.

  58. And that figure of a cloistered student which Foley could vaguely distinguish on the twilight path; it was no real person, surely, but a part of the picture, a figure painted into the grey landscape to give the final touch of tranquil life!

  59. The Painted Trillium bore rich flowers of pink and wine color, and stood four or five feet from the ground.

  60. The rails were painted a dull light brown, almost the color of some tree trunks; and Larkspur, Foxglove, and other tall flowers crowded up to them and hung their heads over the top rails as children hang over a fence or a gate.

  61. Sometimes they have been sung with passion by poets (Swinburne is always glowing over very unresponsive flower souls) and they have been painted with fervor by artists--and still you do not love them.

  62. So the man painted the words under the dial; and the chance words seemed so appropriate to the Benchers that they were never removed.

  63. These were often painted blue; but in America they were more sober of tint, though portions were gilded.

  64. Sometimes they were painted the family colors, as at Hampton Court they were green and white, the Tudor colors.

  65. Often the fence around the front yard was the only one on the farm; everywhere else were boundaries of great stone walls; or if there were rail fences, the front yard fence was the only painted one.

  66. There is in the manor-house an ancient portrait of the child Pierre Van Cortlandt, painted about the year 1732.

  67. But the Poppy is painted glass; it never glows so brightly as when the sun shines through it.

  68. They derive from them vivid impressions, but no practical knowledge, like Turner when he painted a train swathed in its own vapour, and flushing the wet air with the fires of its lamps and furnace.

  69. I remember, for instance, a poor little humpbacked Grand Duchess being so carried through the street magnificently bedecked as if she were going to a ball, and with painted cheeks.

  70. Betty thought a signboard with the name and a wreath of the flowers painted on it would be awfully sweet," added Julie, eagerly.

  71. They travel over the old Santa Fe Trail, cross the Painted Desert, and visit the Grand Canyon.

  72. And I say 'Toad-stool Camp' with a lot of fungus plants painted about it would be more appropriate for this Troop's name!

  73. All these Translations have innumerable Hyerogliphical Notes, and Emblems painted on them, which pass as Comments, and are readily understood in that Climate.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "painted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    painted black; painted glass; painted many; painted pottery; painted white; painted wood