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Example sentences for "could paint"

  • Because there isn't a gallery in London that wouldn't jump at his pictures, and he could sell as fast as he could paint.

  • If I could paint so good a picture as this is going to be, it would be a life-long joy.

  • He could paint her; but only a study, not a picture.

  • Imagine, if that woman would undress; if I could paint her as she certainly is.

  • The neglected little alley came to life every week under Renovales' brush--he could paint it with his eyes shut--and the business initiative of the Roman Jew scattered it through the world.

  • I didn't say he could PAINT; I said he knew how to earn $4,000 in three months painting portraits.

  • Richard picked up the violin and whispered to Munson, with whom he had been talking--the one member who could play the piano as well as he could paint or fence--who nodded his head in assent.

  • No--but I wish I could paint as he does," he answered, mechanically.

  • In order to get a surface upon which he could paint, he covered the panel with a thin coating of plaster which it was difficult to lay on absolutely flat.

  • For the first time he had found an artist who satisfied his taste, and Van Dyck a Court in which he could paint distinction to his heart's content.

  • It was an effect that only Rembrandt could see, painted as only he could paint it.

  • He walked the streets for days and days, coming back to his room to see if by any chance he could paint yet, writing long, rambling, emotional letters to Angela.

  • He wished he could paint her, but he was poor at figure work except as incidental characters in sea scenes.

  • If he could paint again, if he could be in love again.

  • If I could paint at all I'd like to paint those things.

  • Oh, if I could paint that, Winnie, if I could paint that picture in the water.

  • People came to my poor studio, and my pictures were bought from my easel as fast as I could paint them.

  • If I were a painter I could paint it from memory.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could paint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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