Sample Sentences for
veneer
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  • Pith helmets with netting, tools, and wax candles hung from nails near the front door, and a thin veneer of honey lay across everything.  (source)
    veneer = layer
  • What was of worth was not me, but the veneer of constraints and observances that obscured me.†  (source)
  • Only once, when Marlee tripped over the hem of her dress, did that veneer crack.†  (source)
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  • The magic veneer had faded, leaving only broken walls and excavation pits.†  (source)
  • Pity links us in a perverted way, transcending our veneers, joining us in our vulnerability, and at the same time distancing us from one another.†  (source)
  • An hour later, when the sun had melted black patches on the barn's frost-veneered roof, Tom led out one of the colts he'd started the previous week and swung himself up into the saddle.†  (source)
  • With the Republicans in the political saddle the town entered into an era of waste and ostentation, with the trappings of refinement thinly veneering the vice and vulgarity beneath.†  (source)
  • Were I to break through the veneer of snow over a hidden crevasse, though, the curtain rods would, I hoped mightily, span the slot and keep me from dropping into the frozen depths of the Baird.†  (source)
  • Whenever we first opened its door at the top of the creaky narrow stairs we smelled the fresh veneers of pine oil and bleach and lemon balm.†  (source)
  • They were merely two-room shanties, with a seepage of broken-down chairs, peeling veneered tables, chromos pasted on wooden walls, and inefficient kerosene stoves.†  (source)
  • Of course, it's not like racism is gone completely, but as my dads like to say, the veneer of civilization got itself a second coat.†  (source)
  • The front of thin veneers was cut out to make a pretty pattern and there was old-rose silk behind this fretted wood design.†  (source)
  • Adams's desk, a beautiful French escritoire of veneered satinwood and ebony, which he had bought in Paris after the war, was his particular pride and joy.†  (source)
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