[ UK /pˈe‍ɪntɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpeɪntɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of applying paint to a surface
    you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush
  2. the occupation of a house painter
    house painting was the only craft he knew
  3. graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
    he bought the painting as an investment
    his pictures hang in the Louvre
    a small painting by Picasso
  4. creating a picture with paints
    he studied painting and sculpture for many years
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How To Use painting In A Sentence

  • Apart from paintings he produced a good deal of graphic work, including numerous book illustrations in lithograph and woodcut.
  • Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject NYT > Home Page
  • The 27 models on display in Washington, supplemented by paintings, drawings, sculpture and medallions, show the products of a rising social structure and new technique.
  • To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.
  • Still Life with Action Figure," a particularly realist exercise, actually occurs in suburbia, where an artist son visits his artist father, who has resumed painting despite suffering from parkinsonism. Ccfinlay: You Make My Heart Sing
  • There wasn't a blank spot anywhere, beautiful carpets covered most of the floor and there were paintings and animal furs on the walls.
  • He fenced and boxed, but also played the cello, drew and had a deep appreciation of painting. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
  • It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
  • Scrabble to its list of more commonplace activity holidays, such as painting and gardening. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sprucing up kitchens and bathrooms by repainting units, or adding fresh new tiles, can be a cheap way to up the asking price.
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