drywall

noun

dry·​wall ˈdrī-ˌwȯl 

: a board made of several plies of fiberboard, paper, or felt bonded to a hardened gypsum plaster core and used especially as wallboard

Examples of drywall in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Every time a town in America is flooded — a daily occurrence in the past several years — victims have 48 hours to tear down their interior walls and stack the drywall outside to avoid serious respiratory consequences from mold that would otherwise spread inside their home. —David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2026

There are specialty primers for drywall, mold, exteriors, and more. —Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025

That can lead the water to creep into shingles, causing leaks or water damage to a home's attic, ceiling, drywall and floors. —Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025

Inside a 32,000 square foot modular home factory filled with the sounds of construction, high school student June Baker and her teacher Darrin Rassmusen huddled over blueprints trying to figure out what went wrong with a drywall installation. —Sam Fuqua, NPR, 11 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for drywall

• aldol
• armhole
• atoll
• awol
• backhaul
• banal
• baseball
• befall
• cabal
• catchall
• cecal
• centrale

Kids Definition

drywall

noun

dry·​wall ˈdrī-ˌwȯl 

: a board made of layers of fiberboard, paper, or felt bonded to a plaster core