in plaster
idiom
British
: in a hard covering that protects a broken bone and allows it to heal : in a plaster cast
Her arm is in plaster.
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The two-story build sits on about half an acre with four bedrooms plus two-and-a-half baths in a tent-like structure that’s finished in plaster and dark wood trim.
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Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
The first snap revealed the unfinished exterior of her abode that was still covered in plaster and surrounded by leveled dirt.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
Traditional sculptors working in America during the 19th and most of the 20th centuries typically modeled their sculptures in clay and then cast them in plaster.
—John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
In the dining room, the table—in walnut with brass inlays—is a piece of art by Alex Hull, while the headboard in the bedroom is a custom abstract art piece in plaster by DKT.
—Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2023
Some of the bodies of Pompeii were also preserved in plaster, but not from Mount Vesuvius and not in 79 CE.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
So combinations of materials were tested for the breakable stones, and filmmakers settled on Styrofoam coated in plaster.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
Historians have long known that the Romans sometimes covered their dead in liquid gypsum, a mineral used in plaster, before placing the bodies in their tombs.
—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2023
But inside lie nearly 50 tons of dinosaur bones wrapped in plaster – potentially some of the most significant paleontological finds this landlocked West African country, and even the continent, has ever known.
—Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
The first snap revealed the unfinished exterior of her abode that was still covered in plaster and surrounded by leveled dirt.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
Traditional sculptors working in America during the 19th and most of the 20th centuries typically modeled their sculptures in clay and then cast them in plaster.
—John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
In the dining room, the table—in walnut with brass inlays—is a piece of art by Alex Hull, while the headboard in the bedroom is a custom abstract art piece in plaster by DKT.
—Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2023
Some of the bodies of Pompeii were also preserved in plaster, but not from Mount Vesuvius and not in 79 CE.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
So combinations of materials were tested for the breakable stones, and filmmakers settled on Styrofoam coated in plaster.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
Historians have long known that the Romans sometimes covered their dead in liquid gypsum, a mineral used in plaster, before placing the bodies in their tombs.
—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2023
But inside lie nearly 50 tons of dinosaur bones wrapped in plaster – potentially some of the most significant paleontological finds this landlocked West African country, and even the continent, has ever known.
—Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
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