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How to use repaint in a sentence

20 example sentences · verb, noun

Repaint means to paint anew or again, especially if recently painted. Example: “They didn't like the color so we had to do a repaint.”

Examples of repaint by meaning

verbTo paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.

  • to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture
  • Nearly all of their locomotives have never been repainted, which is as much as 24 years in the case of some of the DB Cargo units.2022 September 21, “Network News: Freight firms continue repaints on Class 66s”, in RAIL, number 966, page 17

nounThe act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted.

  • They didn't like the color so we had to do a repaint.
  • The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the place a forlorn air.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67

nounThe act of drawing or rendering again on the display.

  • WPF will call your OnRender function when it needs to know what content your visual displays, but the way graphics acceleration works in WPF means that this happens far less often than the equivalent repaints in Win32.2005, Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths, Programming Windows Presentation Foundation

More sentences with repaint

  • I was really smitten by the color combination, and soon repainted the entire house.From the entry smite
  • I devoted this afternoon to repainting my study, and nothing will get in my way.From the entry devote
  • All the flaking paint had to be scraped off before repainting; fortunately, it came off easily.From the entry flaking
  • He's repainting the outside of his house.From the entry outside
  • Well, perhaps that beige-on-beige color scheme may be a little middle-aged for a young artist's apartment; a little repainting won't hurt anything.From the entry middle-aged
  • He needed something to fixate on now that the repainting was done.2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 202. From the entry fixate
  • She repainted them that night, bright red for the tournament, though her ring fingernails were left gold.2013 August 9, Mary Kenney, “Lonely in the L.P.G.A.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry ring fingernail
  • This association will partially pay for the repainting of hex signs in the tourist areas.1984, Thomas Edmund Graves, The Pennsylvania German Hex Sign: A Study in Folk Process, page 256. From the entry hex sign
  • In a few days now the Dawn Treader, remasted, repainted, and well stored, was ready to sail.1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 7, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998. From the entry remast
  • It has also been cleaned and repainted.2021 December 29, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Southern”, in RAIL, number 947, page 21. From the entry tactile paving
  • He left to supervise the repainting of the Flying Fortress.2012, Stuart Slade, A Mighty Endeavor, page 81. From the entry sand and spinach
  • Wallplate sockets may become obstructed when a room is repainted; be sure the gold contacts inside the socket are clean.1995, David Hakala, Modems made easy: the basics and beyond!, page 237. From the entry wall plate
  • Their interiors will also be repainted, while the non-instrumented area of the coach, which contains only a few seats, will be made to "look snazzy".2022 September 21, Brendan Rice, “Ready for Inspection”, in Rail, number 966, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry snazzy
  • The station buildings at Oxton and Lauder have been repainted, and a general air of smartness prevails, marred only by some broken signal spectacles.1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Lauder Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116. From the entry smartness
  • What did Dad think, I wondered, after showing and selling all those painstakingly cleaned, repainted, and remodeled houses every day, when he came home to ours?2013, Natalie Brown, “Ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)”, in The Lovebird, Doubleday, →ISBN. From the entry Havisham-esque

Meaning of repaint

  1. verb To paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.
  2. verb To draw or render again on the display.
  3. noun The act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted.

Full definition of repaint

Questions about repaint in a sentence

How do you use repaint in a sentence?
Repaint is used as a verb and noun. For example: “They didn't like the color so we had to do a repaint.”
What is a short sentence with repaint?
“He's repainting the outside of his house.”
What does repaint mean?
Repaint means to paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.

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