How to Use in plaster in a Sentence

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• In the studio the dresses were dipped in plaster and hung from the ceiling.
  — Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
• The show opened on an eerie gallery, a room full of headless human torsos cast in plaster.
  — Jeff Yang, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• At that level, the shaking could rattle small objects off shelves and cause cracks in plaster.
  — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 30 Oct. 2022
• The fossil was then wrapped in wooden splints encased in plaster in order to protect it.
  — Rachel Elbaum, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2022
• The skulls may have been removed and covered in plaster, as was the custom at other sites in the region.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2019
• Her fitting involved three men spending hours lathering her in plaster so that it could be sculpted to her body.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2022
• The bones were later encased in plaster to protect them, then airlifted by helicopter since some pieces weighed more than half a ton.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Mar. 2021
• 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.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
• Both were extracted from the rock formation, encased in plaster and safely stored until they could be studied.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Nov. 2020
• After extracting it from the rock, Suntok set the fossil in plaster to prevent damage.
  — Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
• The skull has now been encased in plaster and shipped 800 miles to Westminster College for study.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Essentially, fossils are covered in plaster and burlap, making a protective shell.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
• François-Xavier worked in a very traditional way, starting with a drawing, then a little sculpture in plaster, then a mold and work on the cast in the studio.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
• Almost everything here is in plaster, which Rodin transformed from a way station in the bronze casting process into a creative medium in its own right.
  — Eric Gibson, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2020
• Oftentimes, the remains of more than one were placed in plaster sarcophagi, but the 10 that were found contained the remains of a single person in each.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2024
• People complained of interruptions to their sleep, conversations, and peace of mind, and about the occasional crack in plaster or glass.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021
• Restoration workers made an impression of the ram's head pieces for a silicone mold, which allowed the casting of final pieces in plaster, Barbossa said.
  — Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2024
• After spending years in plaster and bronze, Neri expanded into the more unforgiving medium of marble.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
• The spaces open to the public show just how much work there is to do, with cracks in plaster walls, hooks with nothing hanging on them, outdated lighting, slivers of wood missing from the old parquet floors.
  — Claudine Doury, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
• John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres spent decades capturing the verve of the borough’s residents in plaster and paint.
  — Travis Diehl, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• Fossils are typically collected in large blocks of rock and encased in plaster to protect them during their journey from the field to the laboratory.
  — Matthew A. Brown, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
• Other treatments put limbs in plaster casts to ensure immobility, and those patients did end up in wheelchairs or worse as their muscles atrophied beyond repair.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Scholars have made various new discoveries in these outlying areas, such as the remains of a horse that died during the eruption; the cavity formed in the rubble by the horse’s body has now been cast in plaster.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• Half a dozen volunteers — mostly local retirees — huddle over workstations, using compressed air scribes that look like tattoo guns to pick minuscule chunks of rock from tyrannosaur fossils in plaster jackets.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2019
• Look for dimples in the wall Though less reliable than the above method, dimples are a telltale sign of where drywall is fastened to the edge of a stud, particularly in plaster walls, says Rothman.
  — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 2 Sep. 2020
• 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
• To imagine Keats’s poethood as timeless, Severn’s point of departure is the impression of permanence afforded post-mortem in plaster.
  — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• The courtyards have fountains and elaborate tile mosaics, and the rooms and everything about the place is extremely ornate examples of local craftsmanship in plaster, woodwork, tile, paint and furnishings.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024