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Definition of veneer:

  • (noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood
  • (noun) an ornamental coating to a building
  • (verb) cover with veneer; "veneer the furniture to protect it"

Sentence Examples:

Is it just the veneer of education and travel and environment?

You can hardly call that a veneer, little one.

He was not content to remain a spectator of the outside veneer of show life.

Gentlemen, it was mad solid, no veneer, a good job all the way through.

They are only a thin veneer of oak stuck on to pretend that they are the real thing.

And when it goes to war, all the veneer of culture goes.

The veneer of civilization peeled, fell from her like snow from a shaken garment.

They were cut into veneers of eight to an inch.

The veneer industry requires best-grade material.

Like the furniture industry, the veneer mills lack adequate supplies of good timber.

"Scratch that veneer of his, and you find his mother and father."

After all, what is the highest civilization but a thin veneer over natural appetites?

The board is hollow, the top being made of thin veneer.

The ground was only rock, with a thin veneer of soil here and there.

I work at the veneer mills, but they never run no more.

I worked some off an on at the veneer mill till it shut down.

Not till civilization becomes more than a veneer, will it lose its liability to crack.

There was nothing of vulgar veneer about this.

It is esteemed a very handsome wood for the purposes of veneering.

Here was no veneer to scratch and crack at a touch, but the solid, rare thing itself.

Sabina was going to marry into the veneering profession.

Cut off from civilization, conventional veneer soon wears away.

The arena of the defenders is veneered.

Does it prefer a cheap veneer to a slowly acquired genuine article?

Discipline and training have given him some veneer of generalized similarities.

Section of proofed body without "veneer."

Finishing Veneered Panels, etc.

A heated roof or a leak swells the veneering, and in many cases takes it off in strips.

There's not much veneer to him.

The veneer cracks easily in hot climates; man's veneer.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

The houses of the merchants are small and low; their fronts are veneered with slate.

I'm trying to tell you the truth, without any veneer to my advantage.

Civilization's veneer was rubbing off at an alarming rate.

Next in quantity used comes veneer, which has two entirely different uses.

The other use is for veneer used alone, when a very thin wood is desired.

"I'm afraid it's only a veneer," declared Stephanie, with a slighting little laugh.

Later we found that this company had a market for low grade stump veneer.

The stump will be cut off when it gets to the mill, and peeled for veneer.

A veneer of virtue long passes as currency in no society.

The veneer of civilization on him doesn't look very thick.

A second time I glimpsed the Slav behind his veneer of civilization.

He says in one place (rather as if veneer were a kind of rat poison).

Everything was "wide open," and there was not even the thinnest veneer of respectability.

The veneer of his fine speech had all been dropped, and the Rev.

That's just wood veneer over a three-inch-thick steel slab.

It was not long before the stiff veneer of bourgeoisie which bored me had worn off.

Both are cut into thin veneers, to be glued to a less expensive body.

They have not dimmed its polish nor so much as scratched its smart veneer.

Gaily, and seeing straight through her veneer.

Is it merely a veneer, a coat of paint laid on from without?

There is an abundance of hard wood for veneer mills.

Veneer crown grafting on chestnut.

Beneath the veneer of civilization I am a savage.

The veneer of easy life fell from him.

There was no polished veneer about the widow's hospitality.

It is in cutting veneer that this end shrinkage becomes most readily apparent.

It is also largely cut for veneer and used as "three-ply" for boxes and chair seats.

No culture is sound except it has been bought by much thinking; all else is veneer.

This same sofa was an ordinary wooden sofa covered with a thin veneer.

The veneer of so-called civilization has been worn off, and the real man shows through.

Scratch off the veneer, and we are all the same kind of God-yearning animal underneath.

Rage had stripped her of the thin veneer of civilization.

The materials were, besides the ordinary woods, maple or box, either massive or veneered.

It had taken a Gorgeous Girl to scratch beneath the veneer in true feminine fashion.

The primitive came through the veneer of culture and showed him the man he really was.

His tone was rapidly losing its veneer of restraint.

Veneering spent very little on his clerks.

A sheet of white paper is pasted on the veneer, which is to serve as the ground.

Two thousand years are an extremely thin veneer with which to cover the many millions.

Small trees I have protected from rabbits by stalks, paper, or veneering.

Perhaps on ours there is a trifle less veneering.

We have all seen veneering on furniture.

"The veneer may wear off before the evening is over."

This thing that you say I've become is only veneer.

"You mean he's all the more admirable because he hasn't plastered himself with veneer?"

The impulsive George Morton crept back beneath the veneer.

He had no time for veneer now.

What one saw, except in self-destructive emergencies, he told himself, was all veneer.

The desperate need of the moment scorned the veneer of discretion.

Beneath the old characteristic veneer it had been working a strange change.

After all, the veneer of civilization counts for very little.

The savage in him was covered by the thin veneer of civilization, but it was there.

I was a bad man when I first saw you; bad with the veneer of respectability and pride.

Afterwards I became bad without that veneer.

"Those are mere outward matters of polish and veneer," she said, impatiently.

Our kind is a cheap veneer glued to commonplace pine.

The tops, seats, and posts were solid wood, worth hundreds of dollars for veneer.

Burl is used chiefly in veneers.

The red sun of civil discord melts veneer and all masks.

Again, for an instant, Weldon could see the humanity beneath the veneering.

Under the veneer they are gross and hard.

His humor so far retains its power; but the veneer has already worn off his pathos.

To her the veneer of polite social life was unknown.

I only marveled at how much of his true character you had detected under his veneer.

His sons too travelled into every land as the bearers of the veneer called civilization.

It is cut thin for veneer work.

Dirt bands of veneer are used and are very satisfactory.

It is built with solid board ends, with veneer or sawed sides, bottom and cover.

Veneer covers and bottoms are held together by stitched veneer cross pieces.