How To Use Shellac In A Sentence

  • It could easily have been a 20 goal shellacking.
  • After a file, buff and cuticle clean-up, your nails get shellacked. Times, Sunday Times
  • Crumb has never made any bones about his hatred for rock, and rock and roll, and indeed anything that wasn't pressed on shellac by desperately obscure bluesmen and jazzers in the twenties and thirties.
  • He wanted the private consortium to keep taking a shellacking on the things. SILENT JOE
  • When we conservatives got shellacked in 1964-with Goldwater losing 61 percent - 39 percent to Lyndon Johnson - we knew we had a lot of work ahead if we were going to educate the public to our views.
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  • Whether you choose to paint, stain, shellac, or just leave the natural color depends on the type of wood from which you built the project and how you want it to weather.
  • And she'd be dolled up for it, too, her dyed red hair shellacked into an indestructible coif, resplendent in a velour maxi lounging gown and jewel-encrusted slippers.
  • Given this 30-point shellacking and their 0-2 deficit, the Hornets may have dug a hole too deep to climb out of…
  • Finishing materials such as sandpaper, shellac, varnish, paint, and thinner may also be needed. DIY Woodworking: How to Make Wood Joints (Part 1)
  • But you know, I was doomed from the moment I decided that I could try to do a little very basic education aimed at people who have never tried to write somebody not exactly like them, and maybe help writers avoid writing a few POC characters who were basically middle class white people with a coat of well-meaning shellac. Cease fire.
  • The second new stumbling block to any agreement emerged in Hamburg, where Ms. Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union was handed what the chancellor called a "bitter defeat," the German equivalent of President Barack Obama's folksier, "shellacking. The Euro Zone's Road to Recovery Keeps Getting Bumpier
  • Unlike finish paints, shellac-base primer-sealers, such as Zinsser's B-I-N, will adhere to all cabinet surfaces-painted, polyurethaned, unfinished, Formica, plastic, metal and glass-to form a sound base for the topcoat.
  • It may be that the only way to remove the smell from the inside will be to remove and discard the liner, then seal the interior surface with lacquer or shellac to seal in the odor, then install a new liner.
  • That the digital remastering by Paul Baily at Re: Sound revived the original shellacs, we can hear in ten minutes of original, unedited recording from Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • After a 3-0 shellacking at the hands of England earlier this year, Spain rebounded to become the first team to defeat France in almost two years.
  • The air was moist and musty inside and the scent of shellac filled Erin's nose.
  • Polyester brushes should not be used with shellacs and lacquers.
  • But after UT got shellacked last week, I'm not so sure anymore.
  • I began this retrospective, Volume XV of "The Welte Mignon Mystery" series, with those inscriptions Edvard Grieg made 17 April 1906 and here reproduced on the modern Steinway in stereo - such a tonic after the scratchy, well-nigh acoustically impossible shellacs he cut that had appeared on Pearl. Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • Beneath a carpet of dust atop a bookshelf in the bedroom, I've got a portable turntable that will play 78s and a small luggage case full of naked shellacs. Foxtrots and Fandangos
  • The Easton Guys started off the weekend with a bang and found the zone offensively as the bats exploded for a 22-1 shellacking of the Hi-Lites from Okotoks, AB.
  • Both cabins have redwood siding that appears to have been given a clear coat of varnish or shellac.
  • The air was moist and musty inside and the scent of shellac filled Erin's nose.
  • Not only were the Glasgow players strong enough to withstand a ten-minute shellacking from Munster before half-time last weekend that effectively won them the match, but they out-muscled Cardiff last night too.
  • They also do all of the caddieing and, wearing lily-white gloves and a business suit, a female assistant is refilling the glasses of persimmon, which tastes like shellac.
  • It was the second straight shellacking Pierce has taken in a Grand Slam final.
  • When rating shellacs, we look at shine, of course, and at ease of application. Rick Horowitz: Session Not as Lame as All That
  • Lots of glue was used to fix this all in place, and over the top of all this a few layers of varnish or shellac were applied to finally seal the whole thing.
  • With plastic surgery becoming so common it's getting harder and harder to tell who has been nipped, tucked, pulled and shellacked.
  • Maybe Monday or later in the week a decision will be taken, by then half of you will be gazed or shellacked to use an expression beloved by BHO. cornel: Are they still waiting for outside help? The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Fire the male team boss, because his team got shellacked by the girls?
  • The present recording, transferred by Mark Obert-Thorn, was cut 12-13 June 1928 on American Columbia shellacs as Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • On November 2nd, Democrats were "shellacked" because they didn't have a coherent message about the jobs crisis. Bob Burnett: The Jobs Crisis: What Obama Should Say
  • Do not apply urethane varnish over a coat of shellac or lacquer.
  • Lyndon Johnson had just shellacked Barry Goldwater, winning with 61 percent of the vote.
  • New biocontrol coatings for fruit are being made of reformulated shellac and sucrose ester, a compound derived by combining sugar with a fatty acid.
  • Finish highly detailed natural and stained wood with spray lacquer, shellac or polyurethane.
  • The suggestion for white pigmented shellac is a good one, but not for the purpose of sealing the algae in, but to keep moisture out. Mold
  • Maybe its pure double-speak, or maybe the president has emerged from his midterm shellacking with a new religion. Obama
  • Nobody wants to hear how badly your team will shellac its opponents, especially before the game even starts.
  • And yesterday, when some 22 lives were taken from their owners and their families and all who loved them, I felt deeply ashamed: because after the initial shock I felt nothing, as if my skin had been shellacked over.
  • This Montreal-based designer fashioned his models with facial rings and studs, hair that was tightly braided up the head only to severely jut out in shellacked strips up top. Marissa Bronfman: Toronto Fashion Week Needs a Spring in its Step
  • Janos Scholz, cello -- inscribed the Bach work on Columbia shellacs in 1934, and they tended to slow down the tempo at the end of sides, the tempos of which had to be augmented to achieve clean side joins by editor Andrew Rose. Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • You are one win away from the play-offs and you get blown out, destroyed, shellacked, embarrassed, humiliated and ELIMINATED by the Pistons?
  • The important things are to keep the shellac cup and brush for _shellac only_, (indeed, it is Handwork in Wood
  • The 90s saw the label release records that are surely to be found in the collections of many of today's alternative fans - albums by Shellac, the underrated Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
  • Above the shellacked, beauty parlor bouffant of the other woman, I see Brad in the distant bus station motioning for help.
  • Polyester filaments work in most paints, stains, varnishes, shellacs and lacquers.
  • Floors finished with lacquer or shellac are nearly impossible to repair successfully.
  • Just two days after shellacking the Kings, the Lakers came back and whooped on the T-Wolves like they were a college team.
  • And of course, the darkly comic thing about it is that, less than a year ago, some conservatives were "exulting" over the tea parties, believing they brought needed energy to a movement demoralized by its 2008 shellacking at the polls. Spokesman.com: Latest stories
  • Others agreed, so the bun was shellacked and set up for display.
  • Boots that have been enameled or shellacked can only be treated with hot wax after they have been thoroughly cleaned to remove the previous coating.
  • Of course, Tom was probably too busy shellacking his hair and buffing his chin to notice.
  • Perhaps the spray from his orange-tan or hair shellac is getting to him. Evening Buzz: Gadhafi Tent Controversy
  • She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots
  • As for shellac polishes, benzo dyestuff serves as polishing down agent. 3. Coating Processes
  • After learning about the potential for using hairdos as drug caches, who will ever watch film clips of the Andrews Sisters, with their shellacked pompadours, the same way again?
  • To find the answer, look to the recent Olympics shellacking Russia took at the hands of the Canadians in hockey.
  • The inevitable critical comparisons to his own power trio couldn't have been lost on him, but he nevertheless shellacked Opposition with the same sonic bleakness he reserves for himself.
  • You have to be involved on a daily basis with the intimate details of it - down to cleaning the bathrooms and shellacking the floor.
  • The shoes dry for a day, then she shellacs them again.
  • Do not apply urethane varnish over a coat of shellac or lacquer.
  • These were removed and the holes filled with an Araldite epoxy; the finish was built back up and then gained and shellacked to be consistent with the case sides.
  • Elliott made 33 saves on 41 shots as he watched his teammates get out-worked and out-hustled in an 8-0 shellacking.
  • The Jets are shellshocked from the Pats 'shellacking. USATODAY.com - NFL Week 4: Five-Star Challenge
  • Even before this month's midterm shellacking, many commentators were saying that Barack Obama was beginning to look like the second coming of Jimmy Carter. Ari Emanuel: Forget the Carter Comparisons, Obama Is Following in the Footsteps of Harry Truman -- and That's a Very Good Thing
  • The results indicated that the extraordinary surge in support for Right-wing candidates and measures, which dealt Mr Obama what he called a "shellacking" in last year's midterm elections, may have retreated. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The defenders had been bombed and napalmed by Japanese airplanes, shellacked by Japanese artillery and doused with poison gas, and they had no ammunition of their own left to fight back.
  • The shellac should be brushed on and squeegeed off with a piece of cardboard. Archive 2009-03-01
  • Like that time I tried to drive to New Hampshire to listen to Dean speak but my car was shellacked over with so much ice I couldn't open the doors.
  • It would need to be coated with shellac or varnish to keep out moisture.
  • Back in '97, they got shellacked like few parties have ever been; after spending years in the wilderness, they finally began to "rejuvenate" and "rebuild" - and how did they do it? "A humiliated, decimated GOP that rejuvenates and rebuilds around the principles of limited government, free markets, and rugged individualism..."
  • It's a narrative we've heard from the Republican Revolution of 1994 to the recent well-financed media blitz that resulted in the mid-term shellacking of the Democrats. Bakari Kitwana: Should Terry Gross Go The Way of Juan Williams?
  • Your rifle's finish is low grade shellac, cosmoline and Olga's toe nails.
  • But that was before Obama and the Democratic leadership went from awful to worse; before they got it into their heads that they got "shellacked" because they weren't "bipartisan" abjectly spineless enough and because the policies they were promoting were, believe it or not, too progressive. Andrew Levine: Needed: A New Nader
  • Clear finishes would include lacquer, shellac, varnish, tung and Danish oil, linseed oil, as well as polyurethane.
  • A shellacking is what President Obama is calling yesterday's elections. Boehner: GOP Ready To 'Roll Up Our Sleeves'
  • Such natural bristle brushes are best suited for use with oil-base paints and stains, varnishes, lacquers and shellacs.
  • Meanwhile, a crust of inky shellac forms on the rim of the inkpot, welding the lid onto it like cement ... The Comic Supplement
  • Pigmented shellac is the typical interior sealer (seals crayon, magic marker, etc). Mold
  • Lacquer, shellac, varnish stay on top of the wood; if worn off in traffic areas, usually the whole floor has to be sanded and refinished.
  • A. The easiest solution is to apply a coat of shellac to all the interior woodwork.
  • Shellac (insect secretion) is acceptable as a halal ingredient.
  • They often find overpaint tourch-ups that some restorer has done and some form of varnish or other coating, such as polyurethane or shellac, as well as surface dirt and cigarette smoke. Daniel Grant: Repair Damaged Artwork Yourself? Maybe Not
  • I have found that these ornaments only last in dry conditions, even when coated well with varnish or shellac.
  • Six weeks ago, in the wake of the Democrats' midterm shellacking, many commentators put the Obama presidency on life support; he was weak, spineless, out of touch. Ari Berman: Is Obama the New Comeback Kid?
  • Expect no reprieve, as the stock market is likely to get shellacked next week by more languid earnings and deep-seated investor mistrust…
  • Shellac records were simply too fragile to be posted; so the special circumstances of war justified the first vinyl records.
  • I think about the only good news from the shellacking is they did hold onto the Senate. Strategies For Working With The New Congress
  • He also offers an edible alternative, though it may peel and get mouldy if you don't shellac it, since basically you're making pie filling without any sugar or fruit.
  • They often find overpaint tourch-ups that some restorer has done and some form of varnish or other coating, such as polyurethane or shellac, as well as surface dirt and cigarette smoke. Daniel Grant: Repair Damaged Artwork Yourself? Maybe Not
  • Democrats have been at the sprawling bayside resort since Thursday afternoon, discussing their strategy and messaging after a midterm shellacking that saw their party lose 63 seats in the House. Obama pays short visit to House Democratic retreat
  • During the recent midterm elections, Republicans "shellacked" the Democrats - a word used by President Obama. Fate of New START Treaty Uncertain After US Elections
  • Hillary Clinton called for an ideological truce within the Democratic Party, she was shellacked by liberal bloggers.
  • THE silent black disk that makes noises when needled is chiefly shellac, lampblack and limestone. 2006 October
  • A "chastened" Obama promised compromise, but he viewed the "shellacking" as voter impatience with process more than with policy.
  • The defenders had been bombed and napalmed by airplanes, shellacked by artillery and doused with poison gas, and they had no ammunition of their own left to fight back.
  • On the flip side, the back line was absolutely magnificent, it stood resolutely between an inevitable beating and a horrendous shellacking; time and again the young defenders repulsed attack, reorganised and regrouped the side.
  • The reason their hair is sprayed and shellacked to within an inch of its life is that old women with that look only get their hair washed and styled when they make their weekly pilgrimage to the hairdresser.
  • Polyurethane has pretty much replaced varnish, shellac, and lacquer.
  • After the Lakers play the Pacers, you don't have representatives of both teams out arguing that their side shellacked the opposition.

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