scrim
Example Sentences
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A scrim will cover the huge window itself so that no one outside can peer in to see who’s bidding.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
His protection was a thin scrim of hotel security and rent-a-cops hired for crowd control.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025
But who doesn’t perk up a bit when the scrim of perfection that shields the private lives of high-profile, perfectly turned-out couples is torn, even for one brief moment?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2025
Then Lee Greenwood live-performed Trump’s longtime walk-on music, “God Bless the U.S.A.,” while a scrim slowly rose to reveal an shadowed Trump on the stage, with his name written behind him.
From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024
Sketched upon the pall of soot downstream the outline of a burnt city like a black paper scrim.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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