Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for acrylic. Search instead for akryls.
Definitions

acrylic

[uh-kril-ik] / əˈkrɪl ɪk /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

A Saint-Gobain spokesman confirmed to the BBC that the company does not store or process MMA like GKN, but rather purchases sheets of polymerised MMA, or acrylic.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

"You start from a sheet of acrylic," he explains.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Individual strands of acrylic paint are extruded from syringes, dried, and woven into the blazer-and-skirt ensemble “Anna.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Many of those operations used petrochemical products and solvents such as resins, adhesives and acrylic compounds like methyl methacrylate, the chemical at the center of the Orange County crisis.

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2026

When I get home from work, the acrylic tubes are still on the desk, but not the way I left them.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Participants are provided with an art pack full of supplies like acrylics, pencils, watercolours and pastels with the condition that they create up to four pieces of artwork.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

For more than 60 years, he hopscotched among media, painting in oils, acrylics and watercolors, drawing, making prints and creating works on fax and copying machines as well as iPads and iPhones.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

The basic materials -- usually epoxies or acrylics -- come mostly from petrochemical feedstocks.

From Science Daily May 15, 2024

But also missing is an example of the bright, abstract acrylics Sam Gilliam saturated into expanses of cotton duck or linen, which he gathered and draped from the ceiling and across the wall.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2023

I pack my best pencils and feel a horrible ache in my heart when I leave all my acrylics and brushes in the corner.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman




Vocabulary lists containing acrylic


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training