turps

How To Use turps In A Sentence

• The smell, both intoxicating and vile, of oils and turps, and of minerals in their little heaps. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
• They used to be just a bunch mates getting on the turps and having fun with the occasional 'biffo', which was always sensationalised by the media. Undefined
• He works mainly in oils diluted with turps, sensuously creaming paint on to the canvas.
• The night Vine painted her now infamous Diana painting, the air was thick with the smell of turps, linseed oil and paint.
• It'll need turps, I expect, and I can't remember where I left it. MURDER MOVES IN
• I'm not sure if I need more turps, I'll have to check.
• The turps in the jar has congealed to a semi-solid jelly around the brushes.
• Almost complete, Honister dominates a studio where massive brushes await the maestro's stroke and heavy smells of linseed oil and turps fill the still hot afternoon air.
• Alas, even the most credulous of children find it pretty hard to suspend disbelief when all your heroes end up looking like vaudeville characters on the turps.
• ‘You must have drunk a lot of orange juice,’ he said, implying I would have been safer with turps.