The outside is wrapped with a flowing metal scrim, which is not only beautiful but practical, as it keeps the morning sun off the building. From Wordnik.com. [Tucson Weekly] Reference
It simply adds an additional layer, which the application describes as a "scrim," to the traditional carbon fiber laminating process. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
The scrim is the reporter. From Wordnik.com. [Journalism 101: Human Nature] Reference
The Caretaker comes; she draws a scrim over the scene. From Wordnik.com. [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference
The smell of coffee hung in the open door like a scrim. From Wordnik.com. [Mission Of Honor]
He is telling her a story, which plays behind the scrim. From Wordnik.com. [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference
We would suggest scrim, Swiss, or China silk of a good quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
July 14 Group A at 9: 45 a.m.; Gr. B at 11: 15 a.m.; scrim. at 3: 15. From Wordnik.com. [Development camp details] Reference
The world is a scrim, left blank for the tints and whorls of the ego. From Wordnik.com. [Tricky, Abstruse Questions Fielded by Frayn the Brain] Reference
I do not know what that would be, since the military operates behind a scrim. From Wordnik.com. [Barry Sanders: The Green Zone: The Military's Addiction To Oil] Reference
Like her state, Palin is the perfect scrim for all of our fevered projections. From Wordnik.com. ['American Idol’ Meets ‘Northern Exposure’] Reference
Identity politics will be used, as usual, as a thin scrim to hide much deeper problems. From Wordnik.com. [Things Are Not as They Seem] Reference
A scrim of light clung like a thin frost about some of the stones nearest them; that was all. From Wordnik.com. [The Silicon Mage]
Mr. Stallone was standing before an NBC scrim, mugging for photos with advertising executives. From Wordnik.com. [The Apprentice's Sorcerer] Reference
But to scrim one — or in this case, two — that was something Subar had never even imagined. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble Magnet]
No question but that the older youth had put an enormous amount of thought into the proposed scrim. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble Magnet]
If you use white net or scrim, your shades must be white, and if ecru net, your shades must be ecru. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
Mr. Gibbs says it is like a scrim on a theater stage with a light illuminating the actors from behind. From Wordnik.com. [People Who Live in Glass Houses] Reference
Cheesecloth, scrim, aurora cloth, pongee, linen, and velours, are a few of the materials that can be used. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
Her assignment would be in the country, beyond the scrim of short office towers with their simple elevators. From Wordnik.com. [The Dadaist] Reference
New stitches may be demonstrated on large pieces of scrim, with long darning-needles and coarse red or black yarn. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
De Bernieres takes his cues from Tolstoy -- his characters 'stories are always played out against the scrim of history. From Wordnik.com. [AN EMPIRE OF STORIES] Reference
The lamp was on next to the window, but we couldn't really see anything through the lace because it acted as a scrim. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 14] Reference
Through the windows behind him, I could see clear blue skies with a scrim of mauve-and-gray mountains in the background. From Wordnik.com. [I is for Innocent]
Ridges and peaks faded behind a scrim of white, and Nickisch peeled up like a fighter pilot when another route closed up. From Wordnik.com. [My flight like the one that killed Ted Stevens] Reference
Is there a scrim between what you believe and what you have experienced in this lifetime, or are the two blended together?. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley MacLaine on Memoir, Metaphysics] Reference
Like a long-hanging picture removed from a wall, it seems to have left a scrim of dirt around the edges of the space it occupied. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Back] Reference
The scrim should be pinned to the black-board with thumb tacks, and the stitches made large enough for all to see without difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
On the scrim appears a handsome, broad-shouldered round-headed man with lank blond hair sitting smiling down beside a little girl in bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference
For the final scene, in a video created by Jakob Creutzburg, images of the supplicants, endlessly multiplied, scroll up a downstage scrim. From Wordnik.com. [Futility Finds a (Quiet) Voice] Reference
Canvas, scrim, or any like material should be kept in the sewing room, as these are invaluable for facings, linings of collars, cuffs, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
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