base coat
Example Sentences
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We used a base coat of highlighter pink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
As Gaia was painting the base coat on her mural in downtown Oakland, she wasn’t quite sure what the end product was going to look like.
From The Verge ● Jul. 5, 2020
Her stones were of varying shapes and sizes, none of them larger than a fist, and she made a bronze cast of each one and covered that with a base coat of automobile body paint.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019
These effect paints are applied over the pigmented base coat, and below the glossy clear coat.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2011
Year after year she arrived at the beach with a base coat that the rest of us could only dream of achieving as our final product.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
