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
• Check out its elaborate rooms and the decorative plasters, all of which have withstood erosion and time.
  — Adam Lapetina, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2024
• While the painting’s side borders and top quarter are intact, its middle and bottom sections appear to have been ripped away, leaving jagged plaster edges.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024

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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
• Mirror landed endorsement deals for products from fast food to high fashion, and their faces were plastered all over the city.
  — Tim Chan, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• Caballero and Morales, whose faces have been plastered on billboards all over the city, reacted differently to the news Wednesday.
  — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024