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cover with shellac
She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots
How To Use shellack In A Sentence
- 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
- 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.
- 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