paint the town red

Examples of painted

painted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It is a fact that, in this century, few happy and harmonious landscapes have been painted by leading artists.
The bottom exterior of each dish was painted with a simple red cross.
Qualitative differences are most clear-cut for slipped and painted vases.
Towns with a home town association have paved roads, electricity, and freshly painted public buildings.
Which means, the picture will be painted with a feeling of offence, annoyance, inauthenticity.
It was painted with the red figure technique.
It would indeed be surprising if the numismatic data painted a significantly different picture.
A different chamber (say, one with the walls painted black) could be used later to measure resistance to extinction in each component.
Decoration is painted in red and black on the buff/ orange slip.
One of the three vessels from the circular pit was also painted with the cross motif.
The copper specimen was painted black on the sides to enhance its emissivity for the infrared thermograph study.
Let us denote its length by l (this is also the total number of walls painted).
These almost unpunctured walls are plastered and painted white.
Lures were painted black with a permanent marker and placed individually upside down at the centre of each disc.
Note, however, that despite the extremes painted by this type of description, the terms efficacy and effectiveness do not constitute a true dichotomy.
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