Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: paints
IPA transcription: [p'eɪnts]
Usage examples
  • His imagination paints nothing to him; his heart asks nothing from him.
  • One of them paints sawdust in a delicatessen factory at twelve dollars per.
  • "That delightful Popple--he paints so exactly as he talks!" the white-haired lady took it up.
  • Whenever an erroneous representation is made of the nature of gods and heroes,--as when a painter paints a portrait not having the shadow of a likeness to the original.
  • On one side is his work-bench, with plenty of saws and hammers and jack-knives; and on another side is the paint-bench, with paints of every color and brushes of every size and shape.
  • Awake My fairest, my espous'd, my latest found, Heav'ns last best gift, my ever new delight, Awake, the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us, we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended Plants, how blows the Citron Grove, What drops the Myrrhe, & what the balmie Reed, How Nature paints her colours, how the Bee Sits on the Bloom extracting liquid sweet.