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Examples of veneer in a Sentence
Stefanos Geroulanos, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2024
Dance Moms Star Abby Lee Miller Reacts to JoJo Siwa’s New ‘Bad Girl’ Look on TikTok: ‘Absolutely Amazing’
Siwa's pearly white veneers are the work of Beverly Hills, Calif.-based cosmetic dentist Dr. Kevin Sands.
—Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
The controversy quickly came to dominate life on Alderney, laying bare the class divisions that had long existed beneath the community’s serene veneer.
—Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
These digital changes bring a veneer of respectability.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
The dial depicts a young surfer approaching the waves with his board, and is composed of 100 veneer parts and 75 inlays comprising 23 species of wood in different colors, textures and veining.
—Carol Besler, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
However, today’s media landscape tends to tell a different story, as most online and TV personalities boast nearly identical sets of straight, gleaming teeth with no gaps, as many opt to receive veneers.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 25 Mar. 2024
Working with Eldorado Stone—the iconic brand revered for its wide range of stone and brick veneer products—our plans include statement stone walls throughout the property.
—Camille Styles, Sunset Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
Back then, the harassers used obfuscating tactics, cloaking their oftentimes violent harassment in the veneer of legitimate complaint.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2024
Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
And if Psyche does have a rocky mantle, ferrovolcanic seeps could have veneered it with metal from the asteroid’s core.
—Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2019
Some sported muscle sheaths that swell when exposed to ethanol vapor; others were veneered with a material that shrinks when soaked in a glucose solution.
—Sid Perkins, Scientific American, 11 July 2019
A stair leads to the spacious main level, with its Brazilian-walnut floors and open red-oak-veneered kitchen bracketed by the living room and dining room, both of which open onto ipe decks.
—Aric Chen, ELLE Decor, 31 Oct. 2008
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Word History
Noun
noun derivative of veneer entry 2, or borrowed directly from German (17th-century) furner, fornier (modern Furnier), noun derivative of fourniren, furniren "to apply thin strips of wood or other material (to cabinetwork, etc.)" — more at veneering
Verb
back-formation from veneering
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“Veneer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/veneer. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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Kids Definition
veneer
1 of 2 noun
veneer
2 of 2 verb
Medical Definition
veneer
noun
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