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layered

with one layer on top of another

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Six example sentences with layered, each labelled with its topic.

  • The print is layered, with a sheet of tissue pressed over the image and a second exposure on top.

    Photography

  • The lake is layered in summer: warm water floats above a cold, dense zone that fish avoid entirely.

    Environment

  • The chorus sounds layered because the singer recorded the same line four times and stacked the takes slightly apart.

    Music

  • The pastry is layered, with butter folded between sheets of dough so many times that it puffs in the oven.

    Cooking

  • The canvas is layered so thickly that the earliest brushstrokes show through as ridges under the final blue.

    Art

  • The cliff face is layered like a book, each stripe of sandstone recording a few thousand years of river silt.

    Science

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