Example Sentences

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“I used peel-and-stick wallpaper, Tempaper & Co. paintable wallpaper and a faux flexible chair rail to transform this space. The floors are black-and-white checkered peel-and-stick vinyl. I wanted it to feel over the top.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

Clear or paintable white acrylic latex caulk can close open spaces that would otherwise let in cold air.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2021

Because the bricks on your wall have a whitewashed look, which you could only replicate with a light application of paint, make sure whatever caulk you use is paintable.

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2021

“Morning, Paramin” is a collaboration between two foreigners who have both spent chunks of their lives in a country that is, as Walcott writes, “full of paintable names.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2017

If it rained, he painted inside the porches first; but he put one coat of paint all over everything paintable before he was through.

From The Heart of Arethusa by Fox, Frances Barton