How to Use canvas in a Sentence

canvas

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  • Use a canvas to cover the boat.
  • The museum has several canvases by Rubens.
  • The pig takes it in her mouth and makes a beeline for the canvas.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2023
  • For sparkle, dust the canvas with teal or blue glitter.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2023
  • By the time the portrait was finished, the scrap of cloth had transformed on the canvas into a diaphanous dress.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Finish the look with canvas sneakers, slip-on shoes, or boat shoes.
    — Maverick Li, Men's Health, 14 July 2023
  • And that then opened up the cinematic canvas of the story.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Gone are the days when models had to dress like a blank canvas for their various go-sees.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The cat can inspire the human by knocking over the paint and walking on the canvas, getting paw prints all over it.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Four canvases, each at least bedsheet size, hang in a compact box of a gallery.
    — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Their styles are all created in the same tone of off-white, a blank canvas waiting to be filled with stains and rips and creases.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Your child can fill the dropper with paint, hold it above their canvas, and release the contents slowly.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The kit includes a battery and charger, plus a canvas tote bag to store all of its tools and attachments to boot.
    — Tony Carrick, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2023
  • And the kit’s two canvas bags in different sizes can hold all of the unearthed elements.
    — Sarah Grossbart, wsj.com, 25 Oct. 2023
  • She was wrapped with plastic and duct tape, naked inside a brown canvas suitcase that had been placed in a trash bin.
    — CBS News, 24 Oct. 2023
  • If the cars represent the pinnacle of racing artistry, the tracks are their collective canvas, and are among the finest in the world.
    — Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In it a man carries a blank canvas on his back and walks through a natural park in Berkeley.
    — Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The canvas may be quite small, but the results are often breathtaking.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Russel planned to get the moment on camera, while McGrew hoped to get it on canvas.
    — Michael Levitt, NPR, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Take your pick from durable canvas or calfskin leather in neutrals.
    — Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Bonus: the canvas absorbs excess water, so the ice is drier.
    — Sean Evans, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2023
  • This affordable pine wreath serves as a blank canvas for adding your own bows, candles, and more.
    — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Art would paint houses all day, then return to the studio to paint his canvases.
    — Jason Kersten, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Attendees choose their bases – from canvas, wood, glass and epoxy Resin – and instructors guide the process.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Broke and getting by as a studio assistant in New York, her work pants were a low-stakes canvas.
    — Ferron Salniker, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Given that the canvas for your wrist is just 38 to 42 mm, a focal point on a painting must be chosen to fit within the dial.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The cast-stone fireplace, flanked by neutral shiplap, creates the perfect canvas for a standout decor piece.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But the real draw is the theater and its wraparound LED canvas, which boasts 268 million video pixels.
    — Brandon Griggs, CNN, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The hue has been in production since Ancient Rome and has graced the canvases of Leonardo da Vinci.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Summer weight designs remove the canvas and often the shoulder pads to make the jacket lighter and more breathable.
    — Brad Lanphear, menshealth.com, 6 May 2023
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canvas

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  • Volunteers canvased the area for the 2020 Street Count census of the homeless.
    — Scott Utterback, courier-journal.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • More than 500 people gathered to canvas the area to look for her, but she was never found.
    — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The car was canvased for evidence and returned to its owner, deputies said.
    — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • This writer walked over 10 miles a day in an effort to canvas the city and still left feeling as though more could have been seen.
    — Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN, 14 May 2022
  • AirBeams were used to canvas the city in each ward and on multiple modes of transport.
    — Calvin Cupini, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Police canvased the neighborhood, but did not find the source of the disturbance.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland.com, 5 June 2019
  • Authorities were still at the scene and canvasing the area at about 1:20 p.m.
    — Paige Fry, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
  • Berry, 30, should wait until after the preseason starts and canvas the league for a landing spot.
    — Ryan O'Halloran, The Denver Post, 25 June 2019
  • Hands that carry out the vision her imagination brings to canvas with her beloved paints and brushes.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Most of the time, human searchers canvas a project, walking transects under turbines or through solar fields.
    — Emma Foehringer Merchant, WIRED, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Because these are private spaces, those who are conducting the count don’t canvas the people there.
    — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 28 May 2021
  • Police said the burglar is canvasing the neighborhood and has reportedly knocked on doors first to see if the person is home before walking to the back of the house to break in.
    — Amber Jayanth, Cincinnati.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The administration declined to identify the states, forcing teams of reporters to canvas all 50 of them.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Charter operators pay hundreds of dollars a day to anchor on the river while CBP agents canvass their ships with dogs.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Officials canvased the coastline, while others were constantly on-call in case a member of the public called in with a sighting.
    — Alex Stuckey, Houston Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2018
  • To his luck, detectives canvasing the area found Quavo running around the Crown Hill area, a neighborhood in Seattle.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Garbanzo’s Dad immediately ran down to the area to put up flyers and canvas the neighborhood.
    — Rose Minutaglio, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • One way to combat that is to canvas your neighborhood ahead of an election or make monetary donations to politicians your support.
    — Heather Mayer Irvine, Men's Health, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Stand a distance from the tidy stretch of retail and commercial storefronts and today's district is all but indiscernible from the image Rockwell committed to canvas in oil.
    — Plain Dealer Guest Writer, cleveland.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Investigators seized the neighbor's weapon and returned to the location of the shooting Tuesday to canvas the area with metal detectors.
    — Alexander County, ajc, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Through realistic training, the candidates learn to canvas debris fields, keep their footing in rubble piles and alert handlers to live human scents.
    — Bethany Hines, CNN, 14 May 2018
  • These can be detailed down to a specific address and printed on materials from paper to canvas to metal.
    — Tennessean Staff, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Out of 800 members canvased for Fiesta, only a couple of dozen contributed.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 2 May 2020
  • Officers continued to canvas the area and discovered a 32-year-old man on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head, and he also was taken in critical condition to the same hospital where he was pronounced dead.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2021
  • Volunteers and staff from the city, county and nonprofits canvass the county to find anyone who might fit the definition of homelessness to put together a census.
    — oregonlive.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • He was known primarily for his pastels and oil paintings that captured on paper and canvas the intoxicating colors — as Mr. Kahn perceived them — of trees, the sky, and rolling hills and sometimes the barns and cabins tucked inside them.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Two homicide teams as well as deputies from Ramona and Lakeside stations were helping to canvas reservation residents for any witness accounts, said sheriff’s Lt.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 May 2017
  • The sexennial appraisal, like the one conducted in 2018, is a full appraisal, based upon on-the-ground evaluations by a team of appraisers who canvas neighborhoods countywide.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Police on Friday said no suspect was placed into custody and officers continued to canvas the neighborhood into the evening.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2022
  • From body reinforcement through mechanism design and fabrication to canvas top-making tasks, every aspect of the work is handled in-house by Zadeh's 15-member team.
    — Barry Winfield, Car and Driver, 2 Jan. 2023

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