It is recommended that the prepared surface be coated with a drywall primer prior to the application of finish paint.

Since ancient times, objects were also gilded with finely beaten gold leaf glued onto a prepared surface.

Sometimes no prepared surface at all is needed.

The card was one with a specially prepared surface - for fingerprints.

At other times, peeling may mean the flawed paint was applied to an improperly prepared surface.

The upper plate is usually transparent while the bottom is a prepared surface on which the cells have been cultured for a predetermined period.

The artist uses a sterling silver stylus on a prepared surface to make a mark.

Acrylics can be applied to canvas, boards, paper, panels, wood, and a number of other prepared surfaces.

Even on a prepared surface, these things landed rough.

The effigy mound builders usually buried their dead in small pits or laid them on carefully prepared surfaces.