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Example sentences for "overlaying"

Lexicographically close words:
overlap; overlapped; overlapping; overlaps; overlay; overlays; overleaning; overleap; overleaped; overleaping
  1. And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.

  2. And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.

  3. A kind of sculpture in gold and ivory overlaying a wooden kernel--the drapery and ornaments being of the former, the exposed flesh of the latter, material.

  4. Dipoinos and Skyllis still only in part covered the carved core of wood, and restricted this overlaying to ivory.

  5. This overlaying of walls with sheet copper was by no means uncommon in ancient Greece.

  6. It would be explained by the Phoenician overlaying of wood-work with beaten bronze, or, to speak more correctly, with copper.

  7. Hence the existence of metallic ores overlaying recent marine sandstones and compact limestones; for these ores, in a state of solution, may have been the matter thrown out in some of the latest eruptions.

  8. Ermin skin to the collar overlaying that part.

  9. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.

  10. You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold.

  11. The act or process of overlaying with plaster.

  12. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.

  13. Defn: The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage.

  14. The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.

  15. It appears also, that in the time of Moses the Hebrews understood the art both of gilding and of overlaying with plates of gold, and expressed both by the general term צפה.

  16. The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage.

  17. A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense.

  18. Will you not always find sorrow and misfortune seated at the root of things if, disregarding overlaying prettiness of summer days, of green leaf and gay blossom, you dare draw near, dig deep, look close?

  19. Save immediately below, in the shadow of the bridge, this found reflection in the water, overlaying it as with the blond of the stubble and warmer tones of the sheaves.

  20. The tints were fresh under their overlaying lacquer.

  21. Overlaying the sides and back were three patches of it about the size and somewhat the shape of maps of Africa as such are commonly to be observed.

  22. Overlaying of parts is the most satisfactory method in dealing with close three-part harmony.

  23. Overlaying of parts is the best course to adopt: [Music] etc.

  24. It was impossible to devise any clamp for the greater rent, but they did their best, overlaying the fresh patches with clean sheets of the bark and weighting the whole down with flat stones carried laboriously from the river brink.

  25. I never understood before that civilization is chiefly an overlaying of extraneous things, and that, given a chance, it would disintegrate and fall away from us even as our civilized clothes are doing right now.

  26. Hence, a very black color has been communicated to the contiguous and overlaying soil, which is manifestly more or less the result of disintegrated coal.

  27. The arrangements suggested are usually cheap devices based upon the mistaken idea that defects in structure or design may be remedied by an overlaying of color or ornament.

  28. The overlaying of pattern is always a mistake.

  29. SCUM'BLING, a mode of obtaining a softened effect in painting by overlaying too bright colours with a very thin coating of a neutral tint.

  30. Being in tempera it cannot be cleaned, and a dulness is overlaying it; but nothing can deprive the figure of Spring of her joy and movement, a floating type of conquering beauty and youth.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overlaying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    coating; eclipse; envelopment; hiding; incrustation; occultation; sheathing; upholstery; wrapping