palette knife
noun
: a knife with usually a flexible steel blade and no cutting edge used to mix colors or to apply colors (as to a painting)
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Using your palette knife, scoop a generous amount of spackle and spread it evenly across the canvas.
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Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2025
Inter were dissected by an artist’s sharp palette knife.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 June 2025
The rough surface is then painstakingly smoothed with palette knives before aluminum foil is pasted on top.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 29 May 2025
Metzger was making drawings that were expressive of explosive violence, and then paintings on metal with a palette knife that were kinetic.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2025
Inter were dissected by an artist’s sharp palette knife.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 June 2025
The rough surface is then painstakingly smoothed with palette knives before aluminum foil is pasted on top.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 29 May 2025
Metzger was making drawings that were expressive of explosive violence, and then paintings on metal with a palette knife that were kinetic.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for palette knife
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“Palette knife.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palette%20knife. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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