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• The front has a brick veneer, and the back is sided in clapboard.From the entry brick veneer
• The furniture was finished in teak veneer.From the entry finish
• Using veneer on MDF can also create the illusion of solid wood.2019 September 20, “MDF vs HDF: Understanding Differences and Best Uses in Woodworking”, in Forest Plywood. From the entry MDF
• Because mahoganies yield a supple fine-grained wood, they are often used as veneer wood.2012, Susan Crabtree, Peter Beudert, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques, page 392. From the entry faux
• Feminists of the era did not take kindly to Ericsson and his Marlboro Man veneer.2010 July, Hanna Rosin, “The End of Men”, in The Atlantic. From the entry sperminator
• The zebrawood paneling is beginning to get the scratchiti veneer of a grade-school desktop.2008 March 20, Cintra Wilson, “Better Angel, Out of the Dressing Room!”, in New York Times. From the entry scratchiti
• This is especially true when we're faced with temporizing a patient who will ultimately receive veneer restorations.2005, Dental Economics, volume 95, Tulsa, Okla.: PennWell Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 66. From the entry temporize
• Many home buyers like the low maintenance and quality look of a brick veneer home.1997, Steven Bliss, Troubleshooting Guide to Residential Construction, page 74. From the entry brick veneer
• Support the veneer stack on a ¾-in.-thick board with a narrow V notch cut into one edge.1994 July, Rosario Capotosto, “Inlay: How to Add Understated Elegance to any Woodworking Project”, in Popular Mechanics, page 68. From the entry birdsmouth
• The new church is a brick veneer with a seating capacity of about three hundred.1921 November 3, “News of the churches [column]”, in Arkansas Methodist, volume 40, number 43, page 14. From the entry Sunday school
• Strip off that veneer and a whole world comes into view, one that's eminently hackable, moddable, tweakable, customizable, and personalizable.2009, Paul McFedries, Tweak It and Freak It: A Killer Guide to Making Windows Run Your Way. From the entry moddable
• In the dusty workroom her artificially red ponytail glowed like padauk, one of the exotic veneers she uses in her work.2008 May 27, Carol Kino, “An Artist Breathes New Life Into Renaissance Ways With Wood”, in New York Times. From the entry padauk
• “At Kinko’s, there’s a thin veneer of professional folks riding herd on a vast platoon of semitrained people,” said James E.2007 May 5, Claudia H. Deutsch, “Paper Jam at FedEx Kinko’s”, in New York Times. From the entry semitrained
• Soft-wood grafting and veneer grafting are successful in cashew.2002, P. K. Ray, Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, page 221. From the entry cashew
• In the postwar forties, this veneer of folkism rubbed off as easily as, in the thirties, it had been laid on.2000, Katerina Clark, The Soviet Novel, page 151. From the entry folkism
• Work in hard & soft woods, veneers, & formica.1983 April 9, Elizabeth Regan, “Woodworker (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14. From the entry craftsy
• Decorations and appointments: Stainless steel is generally employed for all fittings, while compartments are decorated with polished veneers of Empire-grown timbers.1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 396. From the entry Empire-grown
• Passenger saloons are tastefully furnished with wood veneer and partitions, mottled grey Vyanide walls, pale primrose ceilings and grey floor.1961 February, “New "Mini-Buffets" from Wolverton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 79. From the entry primrose
• He had the two veneers clamped together and was cutting the inlay pattern with the finest of fretsaws.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 77. From the entry fretsaw
• The stateroom panelling is veneered with quilted maple and walnut, and the furniture is in sycamore and walnut.1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47. From the entry quilted
• Veneers like that cost a fortune.2024, Caro Ramsay, Out of the Dark, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry Turkey teeth
• Many executions by the military rebels were given a veneer of pseudo-legality by trials, although they were effectively little different from extra-judicial murder.2012, Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust. From the entry pseudo-legality
• It remains the forgotten borough; even the success of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan did not remove the island’s seemingly impenetrable veneer of hiplessness.2007 October 7, Cara Buckley, “Bohemia by the Bay”, in New York Times. From the entry hiplessness
• He stared at but did not see the bleared reflection of the flanking cherubs a hundred feet above the steel-grey veneer of water.1946, Mervyn Peake, “Here and There”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. From the entry blear
• The so-called purplewashing or purple lavage, is to provide a veneer of liberal-colonial feminism in military interventions to legitimize them as actions of almost moral and ethical obligation.2016 November, Nora Miralles Crespo, “Gender and military culture. Lives, bodies and social control under war.”, in Centre Delàs d’Estudis…. From the entry purplewashing
• During the early phase of the Hemoclysm war still possessed a thin veneer of glory, soldiers dying with greater frequency than the unarmed masses of civilians.2013, Carl Mosk, Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Asia, page 233. From the entry hemoclysm
• The inside walls are sheathed in an amber-colored veneer about the thickness of two sheets of paper, cut from a single log of an African moabi tree.2009 January 29, Daniel J. Wakin, “Musicians Hear Heaven in Tully Hall’s New Sound”, in New York Times. From the entry moabi
• Above the veneer was painted plaster, with decorations of geometric architectural and sub-floral motifs in green, yellow, red and black on white ground — non-figurative subjects be it noted.1986, Jordan. Dāʼirat al-Āthār al-ʻĀmmah, Annual of the Department of Antiquities - Volume 30, page 172. From the entry sub-floral
• Wherever there were tracks of children, sleds, large dogs, other couples, or a solitary walker with long, steady paces, these footholes had filled with a veneer of ice.1952, Ben Maddow, Forty-four Gravel Street, page 99. From the entry foothole
• There were sheets of veneer among Jabez Rintle's reserve materials, carefully preserved between weighted boards, and Peter selected pearwood and mahogany to match the table's inlay.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 76. From the entry pearwood
• Their long bows are all veneered with bark from imbé lianas and their arrows are made of a wood of great elasticity and worked so well that they look machine-made.1987, John Hemming, Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians, page 449. From the entry imbé
• The currently advocated Family Protection Act, which thinly veneers its discriminatory attitudes about strict social conformity and the 'disallowance of individual choice with a stated concern for today's social fabric.1981 December 19, Andrew C. Irish, “Support For Gay Nurses”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 4. From the entry disallowance

Meaning of veneer

1. noun A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.
2. noun An attractive appearance that covers or disguises one's true nature or feelings, the veneer of culture.
3. noun A layer of material placed over a tooth.

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Questions about veneer in a sentence

How do you use veneer in a sentence?

Veneer is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The front has a brick veneer, and the back is sided in clapboard.”

What is a short sentence with veneer?

“Veneers like that cost a fortune.”

What does veneer mean?

Veneer means a thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.