peeling paint
flaking paint

He could just make out the name in spite of the peeling paint.

I nodded, my hair catching on the peeling paint of the house.

An inspection last week by the city determined that the likely cause was peeling paint.

Now there's a new face among the peeling paint.

Too many of the shutters had peeling paint, or none at all.

A patch of peeling paint showed where it had originally been.

The same procedure can be used to remove old, peeling paint from these surfaces.

She looks at the crummy little house across the parking lot with peeling paint.

The cleaning has been harsh but is an improvement over peeling paint.

We have peeling paint in the rooms where we change.

Not that long ago, she said, "a little peeling paint didn't matter."

These are set off by peeling paint and flaking ceilings.

His mission is not to remove but to somehow preserve the peeling paint.

They'd rather live for ages with sagging shelves and peeling paint.

Jack turned away, pretending to study the peeling paint on the hallway walls.

The Victorian building has had problems for years, including its leaking roof and peeling paint.

I stared at the peeling paint on the ceiling.

But elsewhere there is peeling paint, and some of the shutters seem near collapse.

He recommended chemical cleaning for the bricks with peeling paint.

Prompt repairs will keep water from entering (a common cause of peeling paint).

Tor pressed back against the peeling paint, her eyes looking everywhere but at his face.

It gradually experiences a kind of living death, marked by peeling paint and an aging population.

They live in substandard housing that has peeling paint and lead pipes.

The first step is to remove all loose, flaking or peeling paint.

Under the billboard, the ground's snowed with peeling paint chips.

He could tell from the areas of flaking paint that it was a different door.

She had tried to clean up the flaking paint from the walls.

It was in bad shape, with flaking paint and crooked windows.

There were alien symbols in flaking paint on the box.

A doctor should test the blood of any children who are regularly in a house built before 1978 that has flaking paint, especially around windows.

I walked across the street to the town square and sat on one of the benches with the green flaking paint.

To solve the problem, you should scrape and sand off all the loose or flaking paint.

One common problem with antique furniture is flaking paint.

They were flaking paint and hadn't been refurbished since I was fourteen.

The hallway's flaking paint is scarred with decades' worth of graffiti.

No new ships with excess flaking paint will be admitted to the fleet site.

They had been painted over several times, but flaking paint had uncovered them again.

Remove all rust, flaking paint and dirt, then use a metal primer.

I noticed that the dome ceiling was flaking paint.

It was a five-story building with corrugated metal doors and flaking paint.

It was a wooden panel, with flaking paint.

The rest of the house was dull wood, with flaking paint, straw on the floor, and light showing through the cracks.

All the obsolete ships currently located at the site will be cleaned of flaking paint within 2 years.

He looked down, scraping the toe of his loafer against the flaking paint on the porch floor.

Loose or flaking paint also must be removed so new paint will adhere.

He began to cough as the air was filled with choking dust from flaking paint and heat insulation.

The bullet released flaking paint from the drooping ceiling.

"Damaged lives," he explains, "fill my world as much as flaking paint."

Dust inside old houses is also a threat because it often contains flaking paint dust.

The walls and ceilings have flaking paint.