Example Sentences

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I walked over to a table where a group of women were painting book covers as part of their book club.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025

"I remember going to Rick's house and they were painting Rick's kitchen, and Val got up on top of the refrigerator and did 20 minutes of Hamlet. Never missed a word."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2025

Andrew Lester may have presented himself as a frail, cane-clutching old man in court, but it didn't take long before people who knew him well were painting a different image in the press.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2023

A man called 911 late Dec. 7 to report people were painting graffiti on an apartment building in the 1200 block of Pine Street, according to charging papers.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2022

Two were painting the decorative rocks around headquarters, the kind of thing that we all did stateside, and the other two were cleaning inside.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers