marbleize
Americanverb (used with object)
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With a knife, swirl through it gently to marbleize.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2023
After the colors marbleize, try to transfer the pattern onto a piece of paper.
From National Geographic Kids ● Sep. 5, 2017
Jenkins has designed rooms with wallpapered ceilings featuring elaborate florals, clouds and multicolored, marbleized patterns.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
Serve it over rice with thin strips of marbleized steak for a takeout meal at home.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2021
Merrild would go on to develop an experimental technique that he called “flux painting,” an oils-and-water method that allowed fluid colors to ooze, spread and seek their own marbleized shapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
One of the success stories is Forrest Lewinger, 31, whose studio, Workaday Handmade, produces cups with marbleized glazes, earthy bowls with hand-carved geometric patterns, and ivory-colored vases with a confetti-like spatter of blue.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2015
Thrown into that fountain, all sweet recollections become marbleized; so that things which in themselves were evanescent, thus became unchangeable and eternal.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
At Santa Barbara all that remains of the old decorations are found in the reredos, the marbleizing of the engaged columns on each wall and the entrance and side arches.
From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by James, George Wharton
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