How to Use plaster in a Sentence

plaster

1 of 2 noun
  • The walls are all messed up, with holes in the plaster.
    Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The entrance to the building is blocked with bricks and plaster.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In one of the children’s rooms, the rope bed and rugs are vintage, and the walls are plaster.
    Kate Betts, ELLE Decor, 13 Apr. 2023
  • In the stairwell, a plaster-like substance used to patch holes in the wall was still wet to the touch.
    Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
  • In the studio the dresses were dipped in plaster and hung from the ceiling.
    Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Carter broke through the plaster and removed the stones from the upper right corner of the door.
    Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Once the plaster hardened, the team could flip it over and carry the fossils in sections up the creek bed.
    Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The photos show the couple's three kids, Vida, 3, Elias, 6, and Noah, 8, helping to hold down the plaster and keep the strips in place.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The rest are replacements made from plaster and epoxy resin casts.
    Reuters, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In London, the ceiling of her bedroom was adorned with plaster fish.
    Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The next day the team dug out a steep staircase and a door sealed with plaster and stamped with the royal necropolis seal.
    Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Reagan once gave him a model of a foot — plaster — with a bullet hole in it.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 June 2023
  • The plaster would have made the burial ground gleam white, a unique and permanent feature in the landscape.
    Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The kitchen’s white walls, also in Venetian plaster, take on a golden hue as the sunlight comes round from the east.
    Howard Christian, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
  • But Rodin made many bronze and plaster copies, which today are located all over the world.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • After an hour or more the plaster is formed into a solid.
    Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The walls of the rooftop lounge have been crafted using indigenous lime plaster.
    Jahnavi Bhatt, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The home has oil heating and plaster walls, records indicate.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Fungus coats this wool frame, forming the walls and the ceiling, not unlike the way plaster might cover the wood framing of a wall.
    Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Glass shards and plaster teeth are scattered on the floor as elements in other pieces.
    Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The old bathtub had a mattress-size slab of plaster in chicken wire below it.
    John Jeremiah Sullivan, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • My collection of plaster wall sculptures is my homage to him.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The composer Claude Debussy, a friend of Claudel’s, acquired a plaster version and kept it near him.
    Farah Peterson, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2023
  • At that level, the shaking could rattle small objects off shelves and cause cracks in plaster.
    Rosana Hughes, ajc, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Lime plaster consists of lime, sand and cactus juice from nopal cactus.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Clay plaster and rammed earth from the waste soil of Brussels building sites are used for finishing.
    Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The same goes for Venetian plaster walls, high-gloss walls, and even custom window treatments.
    Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The fusillade killed two, wounded dozens and left 65 bullet holes on the plaster wall behind Kelley.
    Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Did your sister really give you a plaster cherub with a clock in its stomach?
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Above the kitchen island, the custom adobe-style plaster hood draws the eye up, as does a skylight stretching along the room’s width and bathing it in natural light.
    Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 30 June 2023
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plaster

2 of 2 verb
  • They plastered the walls with posters.
  • His clothes were plastered to his body from the rain.
  • He plastered his hair down with gel.
  • We plastered and sanded the walls before painting them.
  • Someone had plastered a political poster on the wall.
  • In the Bay Area, his name is plastered across the city.
    Dara Kerr, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Many of his most notable quotes are plastered on the walls.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Students plastered it to dorm room walls around the world.
    Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The robot stays silent, a smile plastered across its screen.
    Kat McGowan, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The 450-square-foot store is plastered with ads for the iPhone, but the small shop sells all Apple products.
    Varsha Bansal, Fortune Asia, 14 Dec. 2023
  • This squirrel’s gray coat plastered against the trunk isn’t easy to spot, but Knight finds it through his scope.
    Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Name a doomed damsel, and a swath of grungy blue is sure to be plastered somewhere nearby.
    Emily Leibert, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Had the play worked, Landry could’ve thrown it deep to Beckham and the play would’ve been plastered on highlight reels for years.
    cleveland, 27 Nov. 2019
  • But Roland-Wallace plastered him and nearly picked off the pass.
    Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Ahead of the event, the prime minister’s face has been plastered on billboards around the country.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • It can be scored, splattered with paint, or plastered with clay.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • For one, the word is still plastered all over the site formerly known as Twitter.
    Barbara Ortutay, Fortune, 27 July 2023
  • Don't just hold them up in front of your employees or plaster them on a wall.
    Dominik Szot, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Dutcher emerged from the locker room at the Save Mart Center with a wry smile plastered across his face.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
  • But decades later when he was tabbed the Cougars’ head coach, that picture was plastered on T-Shirts and sold to the masses.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The tow hooks and beadlock rings are finished in the color, and the rear half of the car is plastered with a digital graphic.
    Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Plus, all the menu items and food pictures are painted and plastered on the blue food truck to help customers decide.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The pine-board interior smells like hot grease, and it’s plastered with beer signs.
    Natalie Krebs, Field & Stream, 29 May 2020
  • After the race, Paleen sported a sweatshirt with a photo of Moening’s days in the Navy plastered across it.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2019
  • In front of him were paper targets plastered with an array of bull’s-eyes.
    Natalia Yermak David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • This is Scheana once again making bad choices and then trying to plaster them over with a man’s lies.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Her face is plastered on all sorts of products, from toys to electronics.
    Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Inside, the ceiling of the car is plastered with names of Valley neighborhoods.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • As a reminder to the players, Lincoln’s staff plastered a MaxPreps.com headline of the 28-21 upset on the door to the players’ locker room this week.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The program has many plastered all around the walls of the facility, the batting cages and everywhere else.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2020

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