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
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Each field jacket was made of burlap dipped in plaster.
—Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
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The show opened on an eerie gallery, a room full of headless human torsos cast in plaster.
—Jeff Yang, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
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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
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His head was covered in plaster dust like a kabuki dancer’s.
—Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
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The skull has now been encased in plaster and shipped 800 miles to Westminster College for study.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020
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At that level, the shaking could rattle small objects off shelves and cause cracks in plaster.
—Rosana Hughes, ajc, 30 Oct. 2022
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The fossil was then wrapped in wooden splints encased in plaster in order to protect it.
—Rachel Elbaum, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2022
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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
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It is said that the elevator is known to stop on that floor for no reason and footprints have been seen walking in plaster dust on the floor, as collected by Kentuckyhauntedhouses.com.
—The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
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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
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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
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After extracting it from the rock, Suntok set the fossil in plaster to prevent damage.
—Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Both were extracted from the rock formation, encased in plaster and safely stored until they could be studied.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Nov. 2020
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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, 23 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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The pieces were lifelike depictions of faces, with partial torsos executed in plaster, then painted in beautiful colors: browns and blacks and golds.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
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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
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After spending years in plaster and bronze, Neri expanded into the more unforgiving medium of marble.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
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Essentially, fossils are covered in plaster and burlap, making a protective shell.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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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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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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Building Works will upskill those already in the building trades and educate homeowners and renters about ways to better care for older buildings: weatherizing windows, basic electrical and plumbing, holes in plaster, hiring the right contractor.
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
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