The third, which is a folding chair made of canvas stretched on a metal frame, occupies a distinctly retired position between the fourth chair and the table.

I wanted a roof, even if it was only a piece of canvas stretched over four poles.

Purposely wide, so that tossed money would not fail to land on it, the huge canvas stretched from curb to curb.

Studio backdrops were usually painted canvas stretched on wood frames, a lot like pieces of an inexpensive stage set.

Shirley raised his head a fraction, as though resting from his survey of every thread in the canvas stretched over the deck.

Skinner thought of the Lysicrates' life raft, how part of it could be covered with canvas stretched over metal hoops.

She forced herself not to watch as Grant was roughly bound and dragged over to a two ton military-type truck, with a canvas top stretched over the back.

We can get some idea of what is going on by thinking of a sheet of canvas stretched on a horizontal frame.

My mother would get all nervous about us flying in that plane, because Uncle Lee had built it himself and the shell was just canvas stretched around the frame.

Larger expanses of glass are set in walls opening to private gardens; the doors are sliding panels of white canvas stretched over wood frames.