How to Use palette knife in a Sentence

palette knife

noun
  • Use a long metal palette knife to spread the glaze over the top of the cake.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2021
  • Peter does off someone with what appears to be a palette knife, maybe?
    — Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • My brushes and palette knife are the scalpels of a skillful surgeon.
    — courant.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Use a small offset spatula or palette knife to smooth icing in each square.
    — Torie Cox, Country Living, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Spread cooked chocolate mint filling in the middle, level it with a palette knife.
    — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Using a small offset palette knife or a piping bag, spread the frosting over the cake layer and make a dam around it.
    — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Then, using a palette knife, spread it all around to make beautiful, colorful swirls.
    — Lauren Matthews, Country Living, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Using your palette knife, scoop a generous amount of spackle and spread it evenly across the canvas.
    — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Level the tops of the soufflés with a palette knife, then place onto a baking tray and bake in the oven for 8 minutes.
    — Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • She's been applying that paint with a palette knife, giving these works a three-dimension texture.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Use a palette knife or small offset spatula, smear pink and white frosting on cake to resemble flower petals.
    — Torie Cox, Country Living, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Before the spackle dries, shape your ghostly silhouettes with the edge of your palette knife or spatula.
    — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2025
  • When cooked leave them in the tins for only about 30 seconds, then loosen the edges by sliding a palette knife all round and turn them onto a wire cooling rack.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Use a scraper, palette knife, or trowel to apply Polished Plaster and spread it around in all directions.
    — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The horror of Holocaust is a subject that has always exercised an irresistible force on his paintbrush and palette knife.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The surfaces are nervous and brightly acidic in feeling; the paint, laid on with a palette knife, deliciously resembles cake frosting.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • A lot of times people will think of the palette knife or the mixing knife but painting knives come in a really wide variety of shapes and flexibilities.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2022
  • In a moment that has now passed into ball-design legend, Pinel grabbed the core, which was still soft because the polyester had yet to cure, and sliced off the ends with a palette knife.
    — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 27 May 2021
  • The Globe chatted with Cross about her upcoming exhibit, love of portraiture, and palette knife skills.
    — Chris Triunfo, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • In each frame, the team of artists mimicked the thick layers of oil paint that Vincent mixed on his canvases with his palette knife and hands through a technique called impasto.
    — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Pettis put a half-teaspoon of the vibrant violet color on her palette, and then used the tip of her silver palette knife to capture a spot of color the size of a grain of rice.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 9 May 2026
  • Often executed with a palette knife, his paintings literally conveyed their messages in broad strokes.
    — Vogue, 12 June 2018
  • Some of these—cake-icing-thick—are painted with a palette knife and heavily impastoed, proof that Cézanne was among the original expressionists.
    — Lance Esplund, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
  • This exhibition still showcases his extraordinary atmospheric effects — a sunset in a wash of mauve oils, a squall rendered with a few strokes of a palette knife.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The flavor of the members’ show is typified by the imaginary forest scenes of Eileen Dorsey, painted in gooey palette knife textures and cake-icing colors.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 21 Feb. 2021
  • With a palette knife, Callie Siskel scrapes at the raw face of elegy, revealing interior forms on a canvas where the poet’s father lives beyond death.
    — Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
  • In the mid-1860s, Cézanne was developing a new coarse painting technique, often using a palette knife to apply color.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022

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