Example Sentences

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She says they told officers they were suspicious that Cooper had repainted the outside of his windows and he had been spotted burning items in his back garden.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

It couldn’t have taken long: The day before, Bunny McDiarmid and the crew had repainted the rainbow and dove on the ship’s bow.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

As Michael Silver revealed in a viral Twitter thread, Brown repeatedly tried to play “with his old helmet, which he had since had repainted with colors approximating—but not completely mimicking—the Raiders’ silver-and-black design.”

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2019

“This was an object I found,” Mr. Binns said of a smashed can of paint that he had repainted.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2017

He noticed the peeling paint on the shutters that his dad had repainted just last year, and the brown stain on the driveway where his mom had tried to refinish an old table.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers