Example Sentences

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The next day, participants buffed their objects and applied chemical solvents to create patinas and finishes before heading back to the city.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024

All three are large and burly yet seemingly battered, with rusty patinas that evoke abandoned industrial objects.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

Fashionable homes across the country began sprouting lichened stone urns and zinc-top pedestal tables bearing sun-bleached patinas.

From Architectural Digest • Mar. 18, 2015

Both the appeal of and the problem with “Restoration” is that what’s under the patinas isn’t very surprising.

From New York Times • May 20, 2010

I studied pigments and tinting to match antique patinas.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys