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• The tent, made of tough canvas, held up to many abuses.From the entry tough
• The trapper wore deerskins because they were softer than cow leather garments and rustled less than canvas.From the entry deerskin
• The painting uses polylineal writing to create a brown texture over the lower third of the canvas.From the entry polylineal
• After his ex-wife moved out, his life was a blank canvas.From the entry blank canvas
• The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint.From the entry splat
• The artist smeared paint over the canvas in broad strokes.From the entry smear
• Its staple productions are twine, fishing nets, and canvas, and much hemp for the purpose is grown."2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 53. From the entry hempen
• Whereas we still had the old canvas “chummies” and we were quite envious.quoted in 2021, Peter Hore, Bletchley Park's Secret Source (page 52). From the entry chummy
• His canvas high-tops were still perfectly folded over, and the white rubber toe was still white.2020, Diane Cook, The New Wilderness, Oneworld Publications, page 263. From the entry high-top
• Basquiat's epic-size, experimental canvases betray his radical determination to blackwash not solely history but art history.2019, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Stick to the Skin, page 102. From the entry blackwash
• This time the topmast fell in a flutter of canvas and shattered spars.2015, Karl W Heffelfinger, Headlong Into Hell. From the entry flutter
• He went tripping away under a canvas umbrella, trailing the smell of cheap scent.2014, Damon Galgut, chapter 6, in Arctic Summer, McClelland & Stewart, page 285. From the entry scent
• The one who insults is an insultant who, rather than use a canvas, uses another person.2013, Claudis Weyser, The Diary of an Aphorisiac. From the entry insultant
• He was so muscled and firm, and the canvas shirt under his jacket unbuttoned easily.2010, Janet Chapman, Tempt Me If You Can, page 70. From the entry unbutton
• That apartment was like my canvas and it was a primo party spot.2010, Marie Kanger-Born, Confessions of a Chicago Punk Bystander, page 16. From the entry primo
• "vattoos," are generally done post-Brazilian wax (you need a "clean canvas" for the artist).2010 September 9, Jenny Everett, “Forget Vagazzling: Here Comes the Vattoo!”, in Self.com, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2023. From the entry vattoo
• Rumor once had it that Larry Poons used a catapultlike device to hurl paint onto upright canvases.2008 February 8, Roberta Smith, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry catapultlike
• Different physical supports (canvas, fiberboard, heavily gessoed wood) further complicate Mr.2008 April 19, Roberta Smith, “Is Painting Small the Next Big Thing?”, in New York Times. From the entry gessoed
• Moccasins or weejuns were new options for casual footwear, along with canvas athletic shoes.2008, Amy T. Peterson, Valerie Hewitt, Heather Vaughan Lee, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History, 1900 to the…. From the entry weejun
• Pierre got a green canvas tarp and laid it out on the seat.2007 08, Alan Rolnick, Landmark Status, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry lookalike
• There are variations, like Al Held’s stark, existentialist compositions, with the canvas divided into quadrants.2007 August 31, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry frostinglike
• She removed the half-finished portrait on the easel and replaced it with a blank canvas.2004, Sidney Sheldon, chapter 1, in Are You Afraid of the Dark?, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry atelier
• Tonneaux were made of the same plasticised canvas material used for soft-tops.2003, Bill Piggott, Original Triumph TR4/4A/5/6: The Restorer′s Guide, unnumbered page. From the entry tonneau
• The season lasted about as long as it took McNeely to leave his backprint on the canvas.Apr. 1997, "World Cup I", WaterSki, page 80. From the entry backprint
• The winds blew at their own caprice and there was brailing and loosing of canvas.1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford. From the entry brail
• Auditorium and stage were sheltered from the sun by a coloured canvas roof.[1949], Arthur Koestler, translated by Edith Simon, “Destruction of the Town Nola”, in The Gladiators, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, →OCLC…. From the entry flowerpot-ful
• SHAGGY TUFT - All-cotton loop pile on heavy canvas makes this a luxurious rug for your bedroom.1948 June 5, “BEDROOM RUGS”, in The Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., page 7. From the entry shaggytuft
• “The County Fair,” reproduced herewith, is a recent canvas by Waldo Peirce in the Gillespie Galleries display.1936 July 1, “Gruskin Arranges Modern Pittsburgh Shows”, in The Art Digest, volume X, number 18, New York, N.Y.: The Art Digest, Inc.…. From the entry vidience
• New canvas is used first as undercloths, and these as required are made to replace discarded overcloths.1931, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain), Bulletin - Issues 316-327, page 2. From the entry undercloth
• Canvas and duckcloth are used for the protection of the end windings of machines.1929, Journal of the Textile Institute, volume 20, page A-442. From the entry duckcloth
• Canvas and duckcloths are the strongest form in which linen and cloth fabrics are available.1926, Allan Monkhouse, Electrical Insulating Materials, page 44. From the entry duckcloth
• In the interest of greater economy, we intend giving up interstitching the layers of canvas.1916, Rudolf Gahl, Mining and Metallurgy, Volumes 115-120. From the entry interstitch
• We control the braces on the mizzen, although they control the canvas on the mizzen.1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI. From the entry buntline
• The narrowness of the imagination of the old masters is generally depicted in their canvases.1908, Harold McGraff, chapter 27, in The Lure of the Mask. From the entry pearly gates
• Making little love tap marks on one another’s canvas while enjoying date night at the Paint and Sip.2020 April 1, LeAnzar Stockley, “Introduction – #RelationshipGoals”, in Relationship Ready: Moving from #RelationshipGoals to a Wise…. From the entry cuddle buddy
• More than any digital comparison, this forever-changing lettered and light-bulbed canvas continues to reflexively adorn the progress of our athletes.2018 September 26, Richard Johnson, quotee, “Eight great Australian buildings: from the Sydney Opera House to a Wagga woolshed – in…. From the entry light-bulbed

Meaning of canvas

1. noun A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
2. noun A piece of such cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint an artwork.
3. noun A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.

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How do you use canvas in a sentence?

Canvas is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She is painting a moonlight scene on the canvas.”

What is a short sentence with canvas?

“He spent the night under canvas.”

What does canvas mean?

Canvas means a type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.