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Example sentences for "thin coating"

  • There had been no very severe cold all the winter; which was a shame because of the skating; if the ponds had a thin coating of ice on them one day, it would all melt the next.

  • The weather since she left had been going on in the same stupid way; a thin coating of snow to be seen one day, the green of the fields the next.

  • There's just a thin coating of ice on the lake and ponds, but it won't bear.

  • The art of covering the surfaces of bodies with a thin coating of silver.

  • Mr Furley employs a thin coating of albumen to render pills tasteless.

  • An attempt has been made to obviate this difficulty, by lining the vessels with a thin coating of tin.

  • The metal for small articles is dipped from the hearth or crucible of the furnace with iron ladles defended on every side with a thin coating of clay mortar, and poured thence into the moulds.

  • In accomplishing this, the plate is moderately heated, and covered with a thin coating of white wax.

  • To perform it, the plate is first covered with a thin coating of some resinous substance, upon which the acid employed can have no action.

  • This is a smooth, perpendicular wall marking the line of the fissure and showing the strata of the rock in horizontal position whitened with a thin coating of carbonate of lime.

  • Use a thin coating of paste, first putting a piece of white paper under the page to absorb extra paste.

  • In using some labels it is not inadvisable to cover the gummed surface with a thin coating of paste.

  • Apply a thin coating of flexible glue to the back of the book and put over it a piece of thin canton flannel cut as long as the book and wide enough to extend an inch on each side.

  • 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.

  • The bright surface of metallic iron which results from treatment by Blell's or by Krefting's method, especially if there is a thin coating of paraffin, should not be touched at all with the bare hand, but only with a cloth or a glove.

  • They have usually a thin coating of a calcareous deposit, which however often allows the lustre and colour of the metal to appear in places.

  • In some cases a thin coating of diluted white of egg, to which a few drops of clove oil, or some other essential oil, has been added as an antiseptic is beneficial.

  • The plate is wiped "closely" where the high lights are required or a tint (a thin coating of ink) left over certain portions where it needs to be darker.

  • The plate is next "rolled up" with a lithograph roller which distributes a thin coating of etching ink over the entire surface.

  • When bricks are used, they should be covered with a thin coating of plaster, which, when it is dry, should be white-washed.

  • Give the article a thin coating of varnish, then transfer as directed above.

  • During the cold season the thermometer on the summit of the range stands at about 30 degrees, a thin coating of ice covers the pools, and the country is white under a mantle of hoar frost.


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


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    literal sense; thin brass; thin glass; thin lines; thin muslin; thin sheet; thine ears; thine errand; thine head; thine heart; thing done; thing impossible; thing which; things divine; things done; things indifferent; things pertaining; think more; think myself; think only; think slavery; think the; think thou; thinking about; thinks himself; thinks proper