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Example sentences for "retouch"

Lexicographically close words:
retorned; retort; retorted; retorting; retorts; retouched; retoucher; retouches; retouching; retour
  1. Retouch it therefore, trying to get the whole to look quite one piece.

  2. When it is dry, you may add a little color to retouch the edges where they want shape, or heighten the lights where they want roundness, or put another tone over the whole: but you can take none away.

  3. If you rub out any of the pencil inside the outline of the letter, retouch it, closing it up to the inked line.

  4. If you have not made the touches right at the first going over with the pen, retouch them delicately, with little ink in your pen, thickening or reinforcing them as they need: you cannot give too much care to the facsimile.

  5. When it is dry, you may add a little colour to retouch the edges where they want shape, or heighten the lights where they want roundness, or put another tone over the whole; but you can take none away.

  6. Retouch it, therefore, trying to get the whole to look quite one piece.

  7. It is a little thing--but I do not recollect, in the forty years of my literary experience, any piece of editor's retouch quite so base.

  8. The advance in historic research permits us to retouch it somewhat more in detail, but the conclusion remains the same; without Francis of Assisi the Church would perhaps have foundered and the Cathari would have won the day.

  9. For a moment he thought of summoning to his side Brother Pacifico, the King of Verse, to retouch his canticle; his idea was to attach to him a certain number of friars, who would go with him from village to village, preaching.

  10. It was his custom never to retouch or improve any of his pictures, but to leave them ever in the state to which he had first brought them; believing, so he used to say, that this was the will of God.

  11. Footnote 102: With ludicrously fatal retouch in the later edition "was deprived of" his sword.

  12. It will sing at a feast, or retouch an old play, or paint a dark wall, for its daily bread, anxious only to be honest in its fulfilment of its pledges or its duty, and careless that future ages will rank it among the gods.

  13. As for the lights, you may retouch or glaze them slightly with gum water and pure lake, particularly vermilion.

  14. I agreed, and sent him to retouch my Medusa, which had been new cast in bronze.

  15. The first cast I took in my furnace succeeded in the superlative degree, and was so clean that my friends thought I should not need to retouch it.

  16. This will be more or less joyless, because love alone can make acts joyful; but though it may be joyless it will advance the soul immensely: it will advance her to the highest degrees required by God in order that He shall Retouch her.

  17. This Celestial-living is here, at our door, but we cannot retouch it without Act of God.

  18. He was not in love with her; but, when Sybil telephoned to find whether he was coming to the country for the week-end, he had resolved to retouch his conception of Agnes.

  19. Illustrating the method of 'chipping' flint implements by pressure with a bone or wooden implement, to produce the finer retouch of the surfaces and edges.

  20. The retouch served a double purpose: Its first and most important object was further to sharpen the point or edge of the tool.

  21. This more refined retouch becomes the means of producing symmetrical instruments, with straight, convex, or concave cutting edges, as well as finer and lighter tools.

  22. One of the most distinctive forms of this middle Aurignacian industry is the 'keeled scraper' (grattoir carene) with an abruptly grooved retouch (Fig.

  23. As the shape of the flint is purely due to chance, these Pre-Chellean implements are interpreted by archaeologists chiefly according to the manner of retouch they have received.

  24. Cutting tool with protective retouch for the index finger on the upper edge (a), and a sharp cutting edge (b).

  25. The use of elongated flakes is another feature of this early industry, but the retouch of the edges cannot compare with the fine 'grooved retouch' of the middle Aurignacian; as yet the flakes are thick and large.

  26. The reverse shows a retouch on the flaked surface which suggests the double-face Solutrean retouch.

  27. The Magdalenian retouch shows no influence of the Solutrean; it is even more blunt and marginal than the late Aurignacian.

  28. Evolution of the Aurignacian pointe with abrupt retouch along one edge, from the base to the summit of the Aurignacian.

  29. We are prompted by a powerful propensity to retouch our description again and again, we select the most apposite images to animate our expression; in short, we fall without perceiving it, into the stile and figures of poetry.

  30. Every reader must make great allowances for a Poet, who was so often obliged to retouch and to diversify subjects of one kind.

  31. The type is similar in some respects to Bradley Spike, but differs in that the stem is tapered and rounded, shoulders may be expanded, and fine retouch is a feature of the blade.

  32. Secondary flaking ranges in extent from regular flaking along the sides to the faces with fine retouch along the blade edges, to practically non-existent secondary flaking on some examples.

  33. Rather long secondary flakes were struck off along the edges, with a minimum of fine retouch having been carried out.

  34. The corner notches were formed by the removal of one or more large flakes, with retouch along the stem edge.

  35. Retouch was carried out along the basal edge.

  36. Random flaking is usually employed to shape the faces of the blade and hafting area; retouch is evident along the edges.

  37. Some fine retouch is in evidence along the blade edges.

  38. Fine retouch was occasionally carried out on all side edges.

  39. Retouch is minimized since the oblique flaking, in most cases, carries from the blade edges to near the center of the face and occasionally almost forms a median ridge.

  40. Some retouch was carried out in these notches.

  41. Retouch along the hafting area edges was more limited, and usually finer, which helped to smooth the hafting area edges.

  42. This retouch appears to have been accomplished with indirect percussion or pressure flaking.

  43. The regular retouch flaking used to bevel the blade was removed from one side of each face and often left serrations; much of this flaking appears to be percussion.

  44. A few of his works are in such bad taste as to have induced his pupil, Jacopo Bambini, out of compassion, to retouch them; and Baruffaldi also notices this singular inequality.

  45. In his youth Shakespeare had to adapt or retouch the plays of others; in later life he sometimes collaborated with younger men.

  46. This is the dramatically impossible canvas which Shakespeare undertook to retouch and finish.

  47. In this instance paste the face in, and rephotograph it, and then retouch out the area where the head was cut out, which would leave a characteristic that would be retouched out on the negative and then that would be printed.

  48. They retouch because in the halftone process there is a loss of detail, and had they not retouched this photograph, had they not put the highlight along the rifle stock, then you would only have seen a black area.

  49. Would it have been possible to retouch the photograph so that the telescopic sight does not appear?

  50. His works embraced a great variety of subjects, and it is said that he often finished his picture the first time he went over it, and did not retouch it.

  51. Leonardo worked very slowly upon his paintings, because he was never satisfied with a work, and would retouch it day after day.

  52. It is said that he drew so well when he was a pupil of Rubens that the great master often allowed him to retouch his own works.

  53. A little practice and a steady hand will soon enable an amateur to retouch the spots in his negatives so that the print will show a perfect picture.

  54. It is best to experiment with a spoiled negative first before attempting to retouch a good plate.

  55. This preparation, which is stone hard against water, can always dissolve itself with moisture, so that one can retouch it perpetually, at the same time the whole of one's palette is available.

  56. I propose in the Academy to put Roberson's medium over the whole of my large one and to retouch with the same.

  57. If they are to be bright green use blue and yellow, and retouch the light places with yellow.

  58. After it is dry, retouch the cheeks and lips with the same color.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retouch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adulterate; cook; doctor; emend; fake; fix; freshen; furbish; juggle; load; manipulate; pack; plant; renovate; repair; restore; retouch; revive; rig; salt; shine; stack; touch; vamp