Example Sentences

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A shot made from atop that design flourish would technically count as being “from the logo,” even though this would be a paintless patch of parquet in every other arena.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2019

A March 28, 1966, Observer article described the house as: “a monstrous, paintless, rotting, rattling, sinister, sagging, gap-windowed … Realtor’s albatross.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 6, 2016

I walk among the ancient sculptures that we leave fragmented and paintless even though we could try to restore the vivid polychromy they originally possessed.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2016

His automobile is good but old—old and paintless.

From Time Magazine Archive

But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald