blacking - use in sentences

Preposition: on

  • hull: Exterior painted blue with two part epoxy blacking on hull.

Converse of object

  • make: These sections of the CD-Rom are all richly illustrated with the wealth of recordings, photographs and film footage Blacking made during his field-work.

Adjective modifier

  • bottom: They were convenient to where I started out from, and could combine the slipping out with a bottom blacking.
  • epoxy: Exterior painted blue with two part epoxy blacking on hull.
  • new: We moored up for the night at Clayhithe, and painted the side of the boat where the new blacking had become scratched.

Modifies a noun

  • factory: His father was imprisoned for debt when Charles was only 12, and he himself was sent to work in a blacking factory.
  • mill: At this period a charcoal and blacking mill existed in Wellgate.

Noun used with modifier

  • hull: This includes a wide range of tasks from hull blacking to replating a boat.
  • boat: Now at Cowroast Phil has an engineer and a site maintenance man who also does boat blacking and other similar tasks.

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