How to Use paint over in a Sentence

paint over

verb
  • Abrasive pads, steel wool, and even magic erasers can wear down the paint over time.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Use wood filler, dowels, or even steel wool to fill the holes before painting over them.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The school system also will paint over murals of his image.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Using a roller, roll paint over the plastic foam blocks, and press image onto white art paper.
    — Janna Oberdorf, Parents, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Your first instinct may be to clean, scrape, disinfect, and paint over the problem, but this won't help for long.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2026
  • In one, there’s a body lying on the ground, with a patina of mint-green paint over the surface—a sign of decay.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Those words are written in yellow paint over a maroon backdrop on the side of the stadium.
    — Chad Graff, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But just days after opening, the Zamoras said they've been told the mural may have to be painted over.
    — Marissa Armas, CBS News, 12 May 2026
  • Don't paint over walls with visible mold—these need to be replaced by a professional.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Two activists sprayed red paint over the front of the building before police arrived and made arrests.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The larger of the two adjoining walls where the mural had appeared had been painted over in blue by mid May.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 2 June 2026
  • This color would also look stunning painted over a glossy, neutral base in a French tip design.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
  • People are reluctant to paint over them, not wanting to interfere with the state’s imagery.
    — Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
  • The last step of fixing a water stain on a wall or ceiling is often painting over it in the matching wall or ceiling color.
    — Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Some of the ancient art was even painted over up to 35,000 later, Aubert said.
    — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • If the paint in the surrounding area is relatively new, then painting over just the water stain should be fine once the paint has had time to dry.
    — Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 27 Jan. 2026
  • But Vermeer was an artist who painted over the too-obvious markers of story in early drafts of his pictures.
    — Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • Some of them have sections painted over in red or black that further amplify these configurations.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026
  • Utah took an early six-point lead while outscoring Sacramento 10-2 on points in the paint over the first eight minutes.
    — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The suspect also defaced two religious statues, painting over their faces, police said.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Year by year the face is painted over by strokes of fate just like the Mona Lisa has previous images painted below its surface.
    — Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Despite much of the graffiti being painted over and windows being boarded up, the space has already seen the return of taggers.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Mueller said that although organizers had painted over many of the tags, the situation at Johnie’s had not yet been remedied.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • On Friday, some of her followers made the trek to the mural only to find that the logo had already been painted over with a lighter shade of purple.
    — Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Dish soap strips away the protective wax and can actually dull or damage the paint over time, leaving it more vulnerable to scratches and fading.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Dish soap strips away the protective wax and can actually dull or damage the paint over time, leaving it more vulnerable to scratches and fading.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Dish soap strips away the protective wax and can actually dull or damage the paint over time, leaving it more vulnerable to scratches and fading.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
  • In Orlando, murals featuring citrus wedges and swans had been painted on downtown crosswalks and have since been painted over.
    — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 June 2026
  • Texas also outscored James Madison by a 30-14 margin in the paint over the first 20 minutes.
    — Danny Davis, Austin American Statesman, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Last year, a rainbow crosswalk just outside of the nightclub — which was painted to commemorate victims — was painted over by the state, sparking outcry.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 18 Mar. 2026

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