spray paint

1 of 2

noun

: paint that is sprayed onto a surface from a hand-held can

a can of spray paint

spray-paint

2 of 2

verb

spray-painted; spray-painting; spray-paints

: to paint (something) with paint that is sprayed from a can or sprayer

Examples of spray paint in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

In searching his residence, authorities located a firearm, graffiti tools and spray paint. —Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025

The cost of repainting a section of exterior wall at a nondenominational Christian church in Euless in order to fully erase a crude political critique in red spray paint is at the heart of a trial underway this week in a state district court in Tarrant County. —Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025

Verb

The N-word also has been spray-painted and nooses have been hung on Black students’ dorms, on Black culture centers and on portraits and statues of influential Black people across campuses. —Shaun Harper, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2025

There was also graffiti spray-painted on the pol’s brother’s house. —Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for spray paint

• acquaint
• complaint
• constraint
• distraint
• enceinte
• repaint
• restraint
• faint
• feint
• maint
• plaint
• quaint