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Sentence Examples If applied and rubbed with a cloth, usually burlap, while still soft, the pores fill and the varnish goes on smoothly. Cabinetmakers' probate inventories frequently record debts to woodmen, sawyers, varnish makers, japanners, brass founders, and locksmiths. Her fingernails and toenails were manicured and her toenails had been painted with gold nail varnish. He would use varnish and cottonseed oil and some ink black to bark the grain in the wood. The shutters, window seats and surround are a very dark varnish and maybe should have been matt to give a softer finish. And what of rubber thongs being worn to work, exposing chipped nail varnish in women or overgrown toe nails in men? Her nail varnish is applied patchily, on bitten fingernails and bitten toenails. Glue, methylated spirit, eucalyptus oil, detergent, bleach and varnish are all examples of commonly used hazardous substances. Also, topcoats of varnish turn yellow with age, the result of reactions between the plant resins used for varnish and oxygen in the air. Everything from cough mixture to nail varnish is already metricated in the city's pharmacies. Running his fingers idly over the smooth varnish, he noted the beautiful grain of the wood beneath its thick protective cover. Use the triangular shavehook for stripping paint and varnish from flat wooden surfaces and edges. As Mona she wears glittering, flimsy garments with sheer embroidered scarves, hennaed hair, nail varnish and lipstick. He was also scornful of the use of varnish, which is a quick way for artists to make the surface shine and also to protect it. They need either some paint or varnish and, what brass handles remain, certainly need a good polish. The transformer laminations or coating of shellac, enamel or varnish is to insulate adjacent turns from shorts between winding. For floral arrangements, choose terra cotta pots with glazed insides or give unglazed pots several coats of varnish to make them watertight. I've also worked out that pink-skins shouldn't wear orangey-gold nail varnish. And for tonight's gig, I will have black nail varnish on and some dark eye-liner. They made rules about which clothes we could wear even in our homes and banned nail varnish and make-up. Show More Sentences We would walk into a pub wearing a bit of mascara, a bit of nail varnish, and it would be full of bikers. Examining her own fingers, Nina winces at her chipped vermillion nail varnish she hasn't repainted for three days. Last week they had their pals round for a disco-party at which they applied body glitter, lip gloss, nail varnish and all manner of make-up. The chemicals are also found in beach toys such as balls, in shower curtains, in cosmetics such as nail varnish, in caps and bags. Polyurethane is a synthetic varnish that is oil based and urethane is its counter product that is water based. When the piece is dry, sand it lightly and apply one coat of acrylic varnish to protect the finish. I have found that these ornaments only last in dry conditions, even when coated well with varnish or shellac. We first prepared the boards by sanding the wooden surface to remove any varnish. Once a year every detail is painted with a thick, clear coat of marine-grade varnish to protect it from weathering. Apply two, preferably three coats of urethane varnish using a good quality natural bristle brush. Two or more coats of clear gloss varnish will give you the traditional shiny, lacquered finish. Then he repeatedly applies furniture varnish or stain which he wipes away with turpentine and reapplies to darken the edges of the work. Both cabins have redwood siding that appears to have been given a clear coat of varnish or shellac. Joan looked up from examining her bitten nails, wondering if she should pick up a new black varnish. The lady filed and shaped our nails, cleaned our cuticles and painted 4 layers of varnish on them. Her colleague, who already had her coat on, looked up then looked down again, picking chipped pink varnish from the edge of a finger nail. Presumably the point would have been to make certain of the sinister police chief's demise, while putting a varnish of legality on it later on. If we are to develop a more realistic sense of place we will need to strip the varnish from some cherished myths about our island world. It would take a lot more than suggesting Lincoln was gay to strip some of the varnish off of his image. Extremist impulses have acquired a varnish of respectability through the intercession of the socialist leaders. Show More Sentences It was reduced to the purely decorative art of whether or not to put the varnish of international approval on a decision already made. He was going to varnish the new pine doors but he was already reeling from the fumes from the paint. A varnish stain or polyurethane in clear or tinted is another choice for redwood, cypress and cedar. Ultraviolet radiation penetrates the coating and carbonizes the oils in the wood, causing the wood to darken beneath the varnish. Oh sure, the house stinks to high heaven, but it's just the varnish, a small price to pay for the end result. Next job is to strip the varnish from the neck, and sand it down to the wood. The key factor in cleaning paintings is that the restorer should have control over the level to which dirt, varnish, and overpaint are removed. It smelled fresh of varnish, which was buried under a scent of cheeseburgers, French fries and onion rings. These chromos were characterized by printing in dark thick inks that were heavily coated with varnish. It's a 14 ft, wooden, clinker-built boat, upside down and in need of some varnish. Coat the hook with varnish and wind on the flat tinsel in a clockwise direction whilst the varnish is still wet. From the clerk of the kitchen I required the buttery accounts without varnish or concealment. Also, a dependable brand of fuel injection prevents common injection problems such as varnish deposits, clogging and fuel leakage. Organic solvents are used in a variety of commonly encountered substances including correction fluid, glue, paint, varnish, and aerosols. The slide was then pressed gently between the folds of a paper towel, and the edges of the coverslip were sealed with nail varnish. The name French polish is deceptive, because it's not a furniture polish at all, but a varnish, a finish, just as lacquer is a finish. The scheme can only accept household paint and not car paint, varnish, wood preservatives or other chemicals. Many rocks in arid areas sport desert varnish, a dark, shiny coating rich in iron oxides and manganese oxide. The stones in a pavement are usually coated with a desert varnish of materials deposited from water. He is now taking away discolored layers of varnish that have coated the painting for well over a century. Show More Sentences Sand the bed down to remove the varnish then apply one coat of emulsion paint in blue or dark pink. After this period of time, they begin to oxidize, forming sludge, varnish, gum and other harmful deposits. It was reported that Aetius Amidenus, a medical writer in the 5th century, mentioned the use of a drying oil as a varnish on paintings. Similarly, nail varnish and varnish remover, although strong smelling, are probably too water soluble to be intoxicants. The abaxial surface of the leaf was painted with nail varnish to obtain a transparent surface mould. A blue-green wash, visible through the light coatings of varnish, surrounds the central form. Because they are water-repellent, they are used as insulating varnish on electric motors and for high temperature greases and lubricants. Ask whether the model needs sealing with wax or varnish, or is pre-finished. The boards are then shaped with hand tools, given four or five coats of yacht varnish, and have a webbing hand strap attached. We painted around the edges with a dark colored varnish and the walls were calcimined. I would finger varnish the whippings with, on average, eight coats of varnish leaving a day between each coat to dry. I brought in 64 eggs, separated the yolks from the whites and had the students varnish their paintings using haki brushes. Mere culture, refinement, respectability, morality, is simply a painted coating of varnish on the outside. Clear finishes would include lacquer, shellac, varnish, tung and Danish oil, linseed oil, as well as polyurethane. Furthermore, imitative products like varnish which substituted for lacquer generated new industries and created distinctive products. An alternative method is to use a blow torch which will soften the varnish or paint, allowing easy removal with a scraper. Nail varnish removers that are not acetone-based are available but many people prefer the acetone because it acts quicker. The original floorboards are in a good state of repair and could easily be restored to their former glory with a coat of varnish. There will be some shiny drippy marks that look almost like varnish on the rough edges of the slab if the stone is resined. According to Mr. Sasi, paintings covered in grimy varnish can sometimes be revived through cleaning and revarnishing alone. Show More Sentences This is about more than giving the Tories' tarnished image a quick lick of varnish. The varnish smoothes out the gaps and ridges on the surface of the teeth and prevents the build-up of plaque, which causes decay. The varnish produces variegated earth tones on rock, concrete, and metal surfaces. The soil in this desert is unlike most I've come across in that there is a desert pavement, but it's very poorly developed and there's no desert varnish. Apply varnish full strength, taking extra care to avoid runs and sags. It produces sandarac, a resin used for making varnish and incense. The removal of the thick, oxidized varnish was complicated by Turner's use of megilp, which renders the paint surface especially vulnerable to solvents. One solution was to use a standard finishing varnish over the duco. The rockers were made of wood, their dark varnish scuffed and scraped. Tomkins notes that Picasso did not varnish his own paintings. The plate is then removed, and the wax or varnish removed by a solvent. She was all brightwork, and the varnish below decks was his pride and joy. Let dry overnight, then apply two coats of clear polyurethane varnish. It would need to be coated with shellac or varnish to keep out moisture. The oil extracted from the seeds was used as a key ingredient for varnish and it remains a must for Hakka people who produce hand-made umbrellas with oil paper. Lots of glue was used to fix this all in place, and over the top of all this a few layers of varnish or shellac were applied to finally seal the whole thing. We are standing in a spacious kitchen painted a dusky pink colour that, were it a lipstick or nail varnish, would be called Plum Beautiful or Berry Sorbet. Wallcoverings made by shaking finely chopped fibers over a pattern printed in varnish or other sticky material to give the appearance of velvet or damask. John Fahey tried to varnish over the problems by citing family and work commitments as the reason for the poor turnout at a recent training session. A matt varnish seals in the colour, making the paper spongeable, and a secret printing technique gives a sharp, clear pattern with a linen embossed finish. Show More Sentences My friend tipped over a bottle of black nail varnish on her new cream carpet, and tried to remove the polish by tipping a bottle of nail polish remover over the stain. This is the first time I've worn nail varnish in over a month. In the evening, back home, rummaging about in my big box of old art materials I came across a can of spray fixative and two bottles of spirit varnish. The nonaqueous media include linseed or stand oils, dryers, varnish, alkyds, molten wax, organic solvent-based acrylic, epoxy, stains, and lacquers. Do not apply urethane varnish over a coat of shellac or lacquer. Polyurethane has pretty much replaced varnish, shellac, and lacquer. Lasting as long as normal nail varnish, the NailJet Pro can print photographs or any other high resolution design and it can print a different design on every fingernail. I wish someone would hurry up and invent guitar-proof nail varnish. Since varnish is a more durable than lacquer and was in use before polyurethane was invented, it tends to be favored by many old-timers, if for no other reason than it works. In fact, any such improvement conferred on the paint medium was probably due to the incorporation of driers into the oil used in the varnish production. This led to a general discussion of how teachers make a good impression, and the fact that you should always wear bright nail varnish for parents evening. In the open, in front of this unlikely holy of holies, are a few rows of hard wooden benches, from which time has long since eroded the protection of varnish. I've only just remembered that I need to take my nail varnish off. When applying directly over an old floor, countersink any protruding nails and sand off any paint, wax, or varnish that might affect the adhering ability of the adhesive. Wood coated with varnish will not dry out and split, will not absorb moisture and rot, is unaffected by dirt and pollution, and will be unstained, by oily or greasy spills. You couldn't wear perfume or nail varnish or anything like that. The crackle varnish of recent years provides a geological quality probably inspired by the Porcelain series of works by a 1990s collaborator, Heather Straka. EcoTech inks can be teamed with aqueous coating or overprint varnishing inline with VP Soy overprint varnish. In boat building lots of sanding requires using either dry sandpaper, or wet and dry paper, to achieve a reasonable paint or varnish finish. Use only marine gloss varnish on the outside, as interior varnish will peel off very quickly in hot sun and rain. Show More Sentences Its red sap was thought to be the dragon's blood of the ancients, sought after as a dye, and today used as paint and varnish. Paint, varnish, lubricating oil, leather dressings, furniture polish, insecticides, and nitroglycerin are made from peanut oil. Some wet sanding and a few more coats of varnish had it looking respectable enough to antique. Yuen Liang successfully integrates petroleum resin with other polymeric materials, such as alkyd, epoxy, varnish, mineral oil, etc. Anglesite is an opaque compound that was found nearly everywhere throughout the varnish. The Anasazi, Fremont, Navajo, and Paiute etched these human, animal, and abstract images into the desert varnish on the smooth sandstone. Reddish-orange material deposits, which resemble mineral mantles known as desert varnish, started appearing on the tumbled flasks. This rockshelter has deeply patinated, pecked circle and track engravings that are coated in desert varnish. Mary McNally, by email AYOU must sand down the varnish to allow the undercoat to grip, or the paint will just chip back off again. Fortunately, unsightly problems like chipped nail varnish, in-grown toe nails, cracked skin and blisters can all be easily corrected. Their exteriors, embedded with rough copper slag from a mine 70 miles away, echo the patina known as desert varnish on the petroglyphs. Inksolutions will produce these products at its Commerce, CA plant, which currently makes varnish along with spackle and paint products. James Price, Stirling ADD a dash of nail polish remover to bottles of clogged-up nail varnish to bring it back to life. A friend swears she tried this method and put a small dab of nail varnish on the mouse's back before she released it. A good sanding removed the varnish, a vacuum and a wash down with sugar soap removed all dust and debris, leaving it ready to paint. It is formulated as an aqueous overprint varnish for application to paper and pa-perboard through the inking unit of a sheetfed offset press. Wipe the surface with a cloth dampened with mineral spirits in order to remove the sanding dust, then brush on a full coat of varnish. The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying. Peep PS39, Proving less is more, the 26-year-old US actress steps out in a matching check waistcoat and culottes with nude heels and red nail varnish. The petroglyph group used brushes to make a desert varnish on their rocks. Show More Sentences The Day of Judgement picture was covered in black varnish and had to be carefully restored by John Burbidge and a team of experts from all over the country. Right, I'd better go and find an emery board. Come to think of it, this nail varnish generally is looking a bit scrotty. I really need to take it all off and start again. Marine varnish has UV inhibitors to slow down peeling and fading. All Nature is smiling, in fact, with one large, comprehensive smile, exactly like a first-class PRANG chromo with a fresh coat of varnish upon it. The company's website states that it offers furniture finished in a bath of tung oil and linseed oil, which releases fewer volatile organic compounds than lacquer or varnish. A MOTHER accused of throwing her seven-year-old daughter on a couch and starting to strangle her during a row about spilled nail varnish has been warned to expect a jail term. Examples from Classical Literature Allow this to almost dry, and then sprinkle on talcum powder which smooths over the dry varnish of Ichthyol. The varnish was as wonderful as that on the belly of a Stradivarius fiddle. Get them home for fifty shillings, say There was a deal of gold, and lacker, and varnish about them. In less than a minute the syrupy fluid has dried, and appears like a film of transparent varnish on the glass plate. I see a thin rim of bandoline, shining just outside the line of hair against her temples, like varnish on a picture. Enamel, varnish, or charr all woodwork thoroughly, leaving no speck of wood bare and no crack open. The ceilings were panels of cryptomeria, and without either paint or varnish, were beautiful enough for a prince's palace. But a dab of varnish, a touch of gilding here and there, was all that was necessary. After they are well buttered, varnish them all over with a feather, dipped in the yolk of an egg stirred up with a little beer. For pales and weather boards this varnish is superior to paint, and much cheaper than what is commonly used for that purpose. This varnish will set, or keep its place on the silk in four hours, the silk may then be turned and varnished on the other side. The dabber not only equalizes the distribution of the varnish, but also removes what is superfluous. The maple neck was worn to a shabby gray and the varnish had been sweated off the chin rest. When they had finished, the table was complete, even to the sanding and a coat of varnish. To prepare this reducer, take one part varnish, and two parts of turpentine. After they have been removed, the gilt or bronzed portions must be treated with a protecting coat of white spirit varnish. Good linseed oil varnish is ground with equal weights of white lead, oxide of manganese, and pipeclay. The varnish must be prepared in the open, far from buildings, because of its combustibility. We have been told that drying oil mixed with mastic varnish has been, though not very recently, used in our National Gallery. The instruments covered with the brown varnish are often without any device on their backs, and seldom have two rows of purfling. Show More Sentences The falsework was rapidly removed and the sustaining framework was painted with opaque varnish to render it plainly visible. It contained a fretwork basket, stained brown and still rather sticky with varnish. This varnish is used in three or four consistencies between which any degree of strength may be arranged by mixing. If binders and not black varnish are used, they must be applied to the glass side. Leather bindings that have been coated with glair or varnish seem to keep better than those without. The platinoid coil was insulated from the water by shellac varnish. Philips Zoom Quick-Pro whitening varnish takes just five minutes to apply and Whitens teeth up to four shades. Use with oil on shellac and with oil or water on copal varnish. It is principally employed in the preparation of copal varnish. The varnish should consist of copal in highly rectified spirit. Abstain from the use of zinc white or damar varnish altogether. Her unsophisticated open-air existence required no varnish of conventionality to make it palatable to him. All Ragusa, though it has an Italian varnish, is Slavonic at heart. There's the varnish, too, like earth on each side of a furrow. Nice, slick-lookin' craft she was, too, all varnish and gilt gorgeousness. I shall probably have to give it another coat of varnish before that, so I must see it some day, and why not to-day? It had been endued with a layer of varnish an inch thick and its frame, of an elaborate pattern, was at least a foot wide. However, they eked out their task with varnish stolen from new coffins at funerals, and it made them rather sick. He drew a match along the arm of the chair where the varnish was worn off. He cast his eye around upon the prevailing hair-cloth and varnish. Show More Sentences She imagined it all new, fresh with varnish, piled up as in a warehouse. The paint and varnish drop from the woodwork like so much sand. A good technician can get nails looking glassily smooth as if they had a coating of clear varnish. I'm covered with varnish and mud, and ankle-deep in crockery. I am sure you did not, for a duster would have swept away these shreds of varnish. The author resorts to no roseate colouring, nor any kind of varnish. Syd implied the reshue was just costmetic, Well, there will certainly be more lipstick, perfume and nail varnish on the Tory front bench. Basics for your holiday include tweezers, cotton buds, cotton wool balls for make-up and nail varnish removal, emery boards and nail scissors. The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them with a black varnish of soot. Find more words! 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