base coat

Example Sentences

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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

Obviously it's a lot easier when people are paying attention, when you have that base coat of knowledge, which I think you have a lot more during an election year.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2015

These effect paints are applied over the pigmented base coat, and below the glossy clear coat.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2011

We paint a white base coat in silence, and when it’s almost dry, something cool splats against my cheek.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy