How to Use plating in a Sentence

plating

noun

• The gold plating looks nice, but the cheap ones do the same job.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2022
• His father worked at the post office and at a chrome-plating plant.
  — N. R. Kleinfield and J. David Goodman, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2016
• The plating will be anchored in place with thick, steel cables.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• The gold medals only have six grams of gold plating on it, as the rest is pure silver.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 23 July 2021
• That includes putting metal plating in areas where tanks have to make turns.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 10 June 2025
• For all the evident care in this dish, its plating is boldly plain—beige on beige.
  — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
• Its social media stardom stems in part from the plating.
  — Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
• By the time the roast emerges, Burke shifts gears into carving and plating.
  — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 16 Dec. 2025
• Now, what's the difference between gold fill and gold plating?
  — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 28 Jan. 2022
• Gold plating, after all, is only a thin veneer.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
• The hull could also be fitted with extra plating to put the vessel in the ice class.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 July 2022
• These positives have put an iron plating on my impressions of the game from here on out.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2020
• Since then, they’ve been mostly made up of silver — with six grams of thin gold plating on the outside.
  — Jacqueline Gu, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
• Because of rising costs, the coins are now made mostly of zinc with copper plating.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 22 May 2025
• If they are made of iron or steel, the fixtures begin to rust as soon as the plating is chipped, scratched, or worn away.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026
• The breadcrumb armour-plating of the fish had been partly singed by the grill, and the prongs of my fork bent on it.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 31 May 2017
• There will be glossy mahogany details adorning the flanks and polished plating on the bow and stern.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 July 2023
• Afterward, Paris snuck out to check out the plating on her tablescape.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
• The fish are so bright and fresh-tasting with these herbs and flowers, and this plating is beautiful.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2013
• The plating was gorgeous and the dishes were vibrant with pops of green that felt at home with the restaurant’s decor.
  — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2024
• This dome ring is made with 18-karat solid-gold vermeil, not to be confused with plating.
  — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2023
• Pieces of the tank’s steel plating, some the size of a two-story house front, were blown 100 yards by the blast.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
• The shallow bowl allows for some creative plating, with the tall curved rim as a good medium for swooshed sauces and purees.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• That’s because steel plating will be fitted just under the road and on top of the concrete boxes.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• Charging caused plating on only a tiny bit more lithium than was stripped off during discharge.
  — Weiyang Li, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2018
• In fact, the provenance and plating of the food may be irrelevant to many room-service users.
  — Lauren Lipton, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• All that said, heavy underpinnings and armor plating cost weight.
  — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 12 Mar. 2026
• The plating and wine pairings were gorgeous, and only enhanced by our forest views.
  — Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2025
• The judges walked the giant hall with clipboards, peeked under hoods and crawled on their hands and knees to inspect the chrome plating.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2021
• Silver medals contain 500 grams of silver and no gold plating.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026