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stencil

[sten-suhl] / ˈstɛn səl /


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Banksy’s stencil works are with the murals on the fifth floor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

The hand stencil dates back at least 67,800 years, making it the oldest reliably dated cave art ever found.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026

The team noted that this hand stencil stands out as a unique variation of a common motif.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026

Extreme ultraviolet light is reflected off of a stencil that contains the pattern for billions of transistors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

The shadows on the road were as still as if they had been put there with a stencil, with slanting pencils of sunlight.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Its photocopiers didn’t need awkward stencils to serve as the master copy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

Stewart offers several stencils and designs — 41 to be exact! — to help you decorate your porch pumpkins like a pro.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

On Friday, Musk shared two side-by-side A.I.-generated images of graffiti-style stencils: a smiling, handsome Kirk, and a cowering, dying Zarutska.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025

A few gorgeous floral stencils, small sculptures and a stained glass window remain from Lloyd’s work in the auditorium of the former South Pasadena elementary school, which closed to students in 1979.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025

Jamie is with her, too, and—surprise—she has almost the exact same bike, only hers is pale yellow and the stencils are paisley.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

What does raw fish have to do with stenciled street art?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The artist known for spray-painting stenciled images of rats and protesters onto buildings around the world has also worked hard to remain anonymous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

The next record in the archival files is his business card, crisp and rectangular with the words “The Baron Georg von Trapp” stenciled in the center.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2025

Brandon Stirling Baker lit the piece with elegance, his scenic design putting stenciled numbers on the wings that suggested a warehouse or maybe an old gym.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

A young demonstrator with “VOTE” stenciled on his forehead in white paint.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman

It took him a full day to broadcast the seed into the furrows, after which he folded away the burlap, barely noticing a stencilled word indicating where it had come from: Odessa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

Banksy rose to prominence after he began spray-painting his now-trademark stencilled designs around Bristol in the early 1990s.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024

A slogan stencilled in red onto the road in Hebrew, Arabic and English by the side of the road read: "Drawing the line."

From Reuters ● Mar. 16, 2023

Next to that is the stencilled face of Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, holding up two fingers in a V-for-victory gesture.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

The boundaries of Ngoma’s Tropic Region were stencilled in dark, wide brown and swept about a gorgeous interior labelled “jungle” and “desert” and “here be Elephants and all Manner of Strange Beasts.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

While stenciling and pulp painting are inherently additive practices, blowouts are subtractive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The nanocryotron was created by using electron beam lithography, a kind of stenciling technique that uses a beam of electrons to remove a polymer film to expose a particular region of interest.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024

The ministry also accused Russia of being behind the stenciling of Jewish stars last November on walls in Paris and its suburbs, causing alarm about the safety of France’s Jewish community, the largest in Europe.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

When he visits the wall that cordons off Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, he adds to its profusion of graffiti, stenciling onto it a Sumerian phrase cribbed from that Mesopotamian pillar.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023

The team works on me until late afternoon, turning my skin to glowing satin, stenciling patterns on my arms, painting flame designs on my twenty perfect nails.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Famed for his stencilling combining humour with graffiti, as well as his 2010 Academy award-nominated film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy's identity has long remained a mystery.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2022

These include fixed drawing room seating with Art Nouveau glass panels, original light fittings and light switches, carved chimney pieces, servant bell pushes and much of the original stencilling to the hall and stairs.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2021

Early "straight" graffiti was abandoned for stencilling and clear, legible, instantly understandable sloganeering.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012

For many years, Spero suffered from arthritis: hand-painting gave way to stencilling and home-made printing.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2011

The man who was stencilling the new ones and tossing them into a pile stopped.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway


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