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How to use turpentine in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Turpentine means any oleoresin secreted by the wood or bark of certain trees. Example: “Turpentine or mineral spirits can be used as a thinner for oil-based paints.”

Examples of turpentine by meaning

nounA turpentine tree (genus Syncarpia).

  • Turpentine timber was obtained from the forests outside Maryborough and Townsville, and shipped by rail and landing craft to Hayman Island.1954 March, “The Hayman Island Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 207

More sentences with turpentine

  • Turpentine or mineral spirits can be used as a thinner for oil-based paints.From the entry thinner
  • Violin rosin is a natural gum obtained from conifers such as larch that produce turpentine.1998, Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 284. From the entry rosin
  • The floor was of coke-brise, shining under french polish and turpentine.1930, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Grosset & Dunlap, page 308. From the entry coke breeze
  • This resin or turpentine is a very interesting and peculiar substance, or rather series of substances.1907, G. F. Scott Elliot, The Romance of Plant Life. From the entry colophony
  • There's cherry bark tea, black strap molasses, sassafras, pawpaw, a pinch of sulfur, an' a little tetch of turpentine in it.2012, Eulie Rier Cienfuegos, At Tildy's Thrift, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry us'uns
  • Buck Island's uplands forest cover also includes frangipani, turpentine, Jamaican caper, manjack, Ginger Thomas, and water mampoo trees.2002, U.S. Virgin Islands: A Guide to National Parklands in the United States Virgin Islands. From the entry manjack
  • They smelled of turpentine and revolted my appetite.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 21, in Klee Wyck. From the entry ship's biscuit
  • Some old turpentine men say the jook-house was merely a bare building where the Negro laborers could frolic.1940, The American Mercury,, page 502. From the entry jook house
  • Pine stumps are changing into turpentine bottles.1911, North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, Economic papers, numbers 23-28, page 7. From the entry woodworks
  • On the building site, vaporizing of mineral turpentines represents a major problem and is associated with nerve damage and other serious health problems.2007, Bjørn Berge, Ecology of Building Materials, →ISBN, page 406. From the entry mineral turpentine
  • There is a comet's tail of spilled cream across the cedar shakes and he will have to climb down for the turpentine.2003, Janette Turner Hospital, Due Preparations for the Plague, A&R Classics, published 2014, page 4. From the entry shake
  • It has the advantage of soaking up the turpentine medium very rapidly, and at the same time it eliminates the “overjuicy” effect typical of oils.1952, Austin Briggs, “Case History No. 3 – Advertising illustration”, in How I Make a Picture, Westport, Conn.: Institute of Commercial…. From the entry overjuicy

Meaning of turpentine

  1. noun Any oleoresin secreted by the wood or bark of certain trees.
  2. noun A volatile essential oil now obtained from such oleoresin of from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; a complex mixture of monoterpenes; now used as a solvent and paint thinner.
  3. noun A turpentine tree (genus Syncarpia).

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Questions about turpentine in a sentence

How do you use turpentine in a sentence?
Turpentine is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Turpentine or mineral spirits can be used as a thinner for oil-based paints.”
What is a short sentence with turpentine?
“Pine stumps are changing into turpentine bottles.”
What does turpentine mean?
Turpentine means any oleoresin secreted by the wood or bark of certain trees.

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