turps

How To Use turps In A Sentence

• ‘You must have drunk a lot of orange juice,’ he said, implying I would have been safer with turps.
• After manipulating the digital image, Coderre then begins drawing the subject, or picture as he likes to call it, in oil pastel, wiping it away with turps, building up layer upon transparent layer.
• Ms Hood had a shaky start to her artistic career when she developed an allergy to turps.
• Her eyes challenged me, potent, like a peregrine falcon's, but the beguiling scent of turps and linseed oil drew me to her canvas.
• I've tasted bad coffee, but never anything that actually tasted of turps.
• Or he had rubbed against something like turps, or even been maliciously splashed with it.
• A mixture of equal quantities of raw linseed oil and substitute turps is often rubbed into pine prior to staining.
• The bellyboard is painstakingly hand sanded and polished to a beautiful sheen using linseed oil, turps and beeswax.
• The smell, both intoxicating and vile, of oils and turps, and of minerals in their little heaps. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
• 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.