paintwork
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As with good paintwork, much of the cost is in the prep.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
The colour scheme harks back to Hamilton's era at McLaren, when the cars ran in silver, by carrying chrome-coloured paintwork on the rear part of the car.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2023
R100 END was the last Metro ever built at the Longbridge factory in Birmingham, and the signatures on its paintwork are from the men and women that helped to produce it.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2020
“The impatience of the paintwork juxtaposed against the permanence conveyed by the representation of decay is a backdoor way to capture the graffiti impulse and make sure it’s never erased.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2020
Moving against the flow, and now trying to edge round this same corner, was a column of armored cars, the paintwork untouched by battle, heading south into the German advance.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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