How to Use stencil in a Sentence
- The walls of the living room had a delicate vine stencil drawn on them.
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There even is a stencil class based on the works of Banksy.
—Anne Kadet, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
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Pink, first — long and loose across a stencil of a man’s face.
—Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
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Use stamps or stencils to achieve crisp lines and even shapes.
—Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
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The kit comes with stencils to help with their designs, too.
—Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Bsn, Parents, 15 Nov. 2023
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Cut the same-size square from the glitter paper to use as stencil.
—Kristin Koch, Seventeen, 9 Nov. 2020
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Place the star stencil just below the middle of the bodice and lightly brush black paint around the edges.
—Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 15 July 2020
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The stencil can be filled with ozone-friendly spray paint or acrylic paint.
—Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
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Pave the way for your backyard makeover with a stencil (yes, a stencil).
—Jody Garlock, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2023
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Then, starting with a little paint at a time, dab paint around the stencil with a foam brush.
—Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 27 June 2022
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To make: Draw a 3-inch-wide maple leaf shape on a piece of cardboard and cut out to create a stencil.
—Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
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Then, hold to stencil on the apple of your cheek and fill it in with your go-to concealer.
—Devon Abelman, Allure, 8 Feb. 2018
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For some in the food world, the gray and gold stencil of a face with spiky hair and sunglasses carries the weight of an Olympic gold medal.
—Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2022
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Use the stencil to cut 5 small squares from glitter paper.
—Sarah Newell, Seventeen, 12 Sep. 2018
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Bus pavement stencils will be installed in the lane next week.
—oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2019
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Carving with this Halloween stencil is sure to be a hoot.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
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In this work, the text makes the eye shudder with a stencil motif that includes the blue as part of the lettering.
—John Zotos, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2021
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One is the title text while the other features a black stencil of a boy and girl, walking hand in hand.
—Julyssa Lopez, Glamour, 8 July 2018
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Both sturdy and stylish, kids can draw and stencil designs on the helmet, and then erase and start over for a fresh look.
—ABC News, 14 Dec. 2022
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If using a stencil, trace the design with a large nail to give yourself a head start with the cutting.
—Beth Segal, cleveland, 15 Oct. 2020
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The frame dilates and expands in circular and oval stencils around the footage on screen.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2019
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If you're crunched for time, use a stencil and powdered sugar to add a simple fall image to the top of your pie.
—Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2020
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Use stickers or a stencil to make a clever sign, and mix up a batch of one of our Halloween punch recipes to serve to party guests.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2022
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Use stencil to punch out design, then lay top pie crust over filling.
—Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 19 July 2021
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Trace a heart shape using a pencil, and stencil the outline of the LOVE or another word.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Jan. 2023
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Give the gift of flawless winged eyeliner with this stencil set.
—Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 10 Sep. 2022
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There are straight lines, pictures of animals, groups of dots and hand stencils.
—NBC News, 22 Feb. 2018
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Because the tuft of hair would serve as the perfect stencil for a triangle tattoo, of course!
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
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His target, a cardboard stencil of a human body, dangled from an easel across the room.
—Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2021
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Use stencils to carve pawprints and dog bones into pumpkins, and display them by your front door.
—Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
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The base of the box is stenciled with highlights of Thomas’s life.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
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All were stenciled around the same time with the same pigment.
—National Geographic, 29 Feb. 2016
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One big trend of the era was stenciling—and Church ran wild with it.
—Cator Sparks, House Beautiful, 3 May 2019
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Those words were stenciled behind the mound as well and flashed on the scoreboard throughout the game.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
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His name was Rodney, and his last name, Smith, was stenciled across the back of his sweatshirt.
—Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
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Michelle wore a pale-pink blouse stenciled with water lilies.
—Jesse Barron, Esquire, 23 Aug. 2017
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The design can also be found stenciled in gold paint on the walls at Spinning J.
—Audrey Gorden, RedEye Chicago, 23 May 2017
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Both names are stenciled on the driver and passenger doors of the fightertruck.
—Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Sep. 2017
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Below it, on a cardboard sign, the new name has been neatly stenciled in red spray paint.
—Kyra Gurney, miamiherald, 29 Oct. 2017
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Line 2 large baking sheets with the paper, stenciled side down.
—The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 2 Oct. 2017
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There will be a Lakers yellow and purple flag with 24 on one side and 8 on the other, and the numbers will be stenciled on the green as well.
—Arizona Republic, azcentral, 1 Feb. 2020
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The double barrel vault ceiling has stenciled sea shells and arabesques.
—Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 19 Feb. 2018
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Up close, their surfaces look like braille, or code, sometimes stenciled over many times.
—Vogue, 28 Oct. 2017
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These are the faces that appear on placards at protests, the portraits that are stenciled in spray paint, the names that stand for the far more numerous unnamed.
—Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
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Someone should stencil that on a plaque so Isa Grullon can add that to the wall in her newspaper office.
—Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2021
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The Rangers held a moment of silence before the game, stenciled Skaggs’s No.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 2 July 2019
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Or stencil a graphic red and white print all over the walls of a cramped living space, which Paige Davis told us was one of her all-time favorite spaces.
—Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 3 Apr. 2018
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The cabinetry was designed and built by the family's father, while the mother hand-stenciled the walls.
—Elizabeth Finkelstein, Country Living, 17 Dec. 2017
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White polka dots are stenciled onto glass panels lining the front of the building.
—Motoko Rich, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
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Experts rebuilt the pattern and stencilled the designs.
—Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2019
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Follow the steps below to learn how to stencil a concrete patio for a budget-friendly makeover.
—Jody Garlock, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2023
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In order to complete this commandment, the scribe will leave the last few lines of the new Torah unfinished, stenciling in where the letters will be placed.
—Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2019
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Forrest’s dog crate, which sits in a corner of the main room, is camouflaged with a hand-stenciled, black-and-white West African blanket, bought at the Brooklyn Flea.
—Michelle Higgins, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
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Yawkey’s initials are stenciled in Morse code on both edifices.
—Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2018
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Paint or stencil your name or house number on each for a simple but elegant take on a front porch display.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 20 June 2023
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The Jesus line is written in loose, white block letters; the one about zombies is stenciled neatly onto pale zinc.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
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Although the grave contained socks stenciled with the name Mulligan, no match was made, and the remains were reburied in 1950 in a U.S. cemetery in Manila.
—Author: Dave Philipps, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2018
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Quotes from famous French citizens are stenciled on the walls throughout.
—Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
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The ceiling is stenciled with black-and-white children’s drawings that brings to mind a crew of miniature Tiepolos supine on scaffolding, doodling upward.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2023
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Her show often featured guest crafters with a particular expertise — in stenciling, for instance, or coffee can creations.
—Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
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