Example Sentences

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It was the first house I had ever been in that did not have wardrobes, no three-piece set of veneered chipboard, that leaned precariously as the glue loosened in the dowels.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

A kitchen area — dark with blackened steel and walnut veneered cabinets — is at the back, dining is in the middle and living at the sunny end.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2018

But what the workaday scenes really aim to do is pull back the curtain on the forces, more thinly veneered than we realize, that impel the human animal.‎‎

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2017

It was a rare moment of candor in an otherwise characteristically veneered Apple presentation.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2016

Satisfied, he takes a sealed envelope from the black gym bag on the floor and lays it across the veneered pressboard desk, making sure it’s straight.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed