Meaning: The artist's brushes move quickly and gracefully across the paper.
Choice of Words: Brushes: tools used for painting or cleaning. Dance: to move rhythmically to music.
Alternative Expressions
The brushes are waltzing on the paper.
Meaning: This sentence is also describing the movement of brushes on paper, but it uses a different verb, waltzing, to describe the movement. The brushes are moving on the paper in a smooth and graceful way, as if they are waltzing.
Choice of Words:Brushes are tools used to paint or draw, usually made of bristles or hairs attached to a handle. Waltzing is a verb that means to dance in a smooth and graceful way. Paper is a thin material made from the pulp of trees or other plant fibers, used for writing, drawing, or printing on. When you put these words together, you create a sentence that describes the movement of brushes on paper, as if they were waltzing.
The brushes are painting a picture on the paper.
Meaning: This sentence is describing the use of brushes to paint a picture on paper. It's like saying, The brushes are being used to apply paint to the paper, creating a picture.
Choice of Words:Brushes are tools used to paint or draw, usually made of bristles or hairs attached to a handle. Painting is a verb that means to apply paint to a surface. Paper is a thin material made from the pulp of trees or other plant fibers, used for writing, drawing, or printing on. When you put these words together, you create a sentence that describes the use of brushes to paint a picture on paper.