How to Use easel in a Sentence

easel

noun
  • At least one person brought an easel to paint the scene.
    Washington Post, 29 June 2020
  • An easel with a still-wet canvas stood in the center of the room.
    New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The back of my hand serves as my paint palette to mix and my cheeks, my easel.
    Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
  • His easel and all of his paintings were destroyed in the chaos.
    Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Painters will need to bring their own easel and supplies.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
  • The teen girls watched anxiously as an easel, cloaked in a black cloth, was pushed to the front of the stage.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • An easel for the children is mounted in the corner of one room, still blank.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • An easel held a black-and-white painting of two figures.
    Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
  • Kim Baptiste Jean-Louis, 32, rushed over to set the picture right on an easel.
    New York Times, 20 July 2021
  • Just left of the stage, perched on an easel, was a photo of his brother in uniform.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • The primary sound of the live set is my voice & the Buchla music easel.
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, SPIN, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Guests can see, and sometimes touch, Ross’ easel, paints and brushes.
    Charlotte Stefanski, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
  • His music teacher would bring out an iPad and an easel to teach lessons.
    Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Tal Simon, a 29-year-old artist from the kibbutz, sat in a corner at an easel.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Curreri had prepared four easels and sketched the lines of the cactus on each canvas.
    Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The painting was still on an easel in Klimt's studio at the time of his death in February 1918.
    Town & Country, 14 June 2023
  • The painting was still on the easel in Klimt’s studio at the time of his death, according to Sotheby’s.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 28 June 2023
  • The floors, meanwhile, are speckled with proof of her work, which sits displayed on an easel.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 11 Feb. 2020
  • If an easel or stand is needed, please note this in the submission form.
    courant.com, 11 June 2021
  • This standing art easel will make the budding artist on your list very happy.
    Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 22 Nov. 2022
  • There are art easels with chalkboards, whiteboards, or both.
    Woman's Day Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • The tabletop easel is adjustable with a drawer for storing tools, as well as easy to pack up and store.
    Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2023
  • There’s a small easel with stock cards for each course, showing a photo of the painting or sculpture.
    Melanie Kaplan, Fortune, 15 June 2019
  • Of course, there’s also a painter’s easel, a chisel, and a microscope.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2022
  • The Serif stands on two bipod legs, resembling an easel.
    Tyler Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2022
  • There may be trouble ahead, but Hartzel, in Maison Margiela, decides to face the easel and dance instead.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2020
  • While Armstrong sang, Lipschutz stood at a large easel sketching in time with the music.
    Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • In the vineyard’s lobby, an easel held a portrait of the couple made from 870 Rubik’sCubes days before the wedding.
    New York Times, 9 July 2021
  • Sam is an artist shiba inu from Berlin in a plaid button-down shirt who poses with his easel.
    CNN, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Curreri stood at one end of the room near his own easel, which held a finished version of the cactus painting.
    Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020

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