How to Use plaster cast in a Sentence

plaster cast

noun

• The mask was made from a plaster cast of his face.
• She had a plaster cast on her leg.
• Researchers have tried in the past to make plaster casts of the long, shallow forms and failed.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Attached to the plaque, the white plaster cast of a startlingly tiny foot.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2021
• It’s not easy to take a 350-degree sheet and wrap it around a plaster cast, with no wrinkles.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 20 Oct. 2022
• One crew applies a plaster cast to a bone from a pterosaur, a flying reptile, a rare find.
  — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
• The next day the alginate is cut away with knives to reveal the plaster cast which is now a solid form.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
• The stunning, complete plaster cast of one of the villa's horses is the first of its kind from Pompeii.
  — National Geographic, 24 May 2018
• The plaster cast gallery was another rush-through place.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
• The next steps, once the head is completed, will be to make a rubber mold off it and create a plaster cast from that mold.
  — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2021
• To craft the prosthetic head that appears in the film, Washington had to do a plaster cast and a 360-degree scan of his head.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022
• The fracture was so complicated that I was encased in a plaster cast up to my hip.
  — Werner Herzog, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• In a key study, researchers developed a model from a plaster cast of a macaque vocal tract.
  — Louis-Jean Boë, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2019
• In order to preserve the size and shape of each bone, plaster casts and photos captured the full physical details.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
• Inside was a selection of her work to date, including a plaster cast of her hand and an Ikea mug with her name written on it.
  — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• There’s Johnson, who cracks his arm out of a plaster cast by flexing his biceps — before yanking a drone from midair.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
• In 2011, the fragile appendages were hardened with an acetone-soluble glue so that they could be removed from the ground in a block of plaster cast.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• In addition to the plaster cast, Kim had digital scans done of her body that were really what served as the basis for the bottle.
  — Sophia Panych, Allure, 27 Apr. 2018
• The building is now an exhibition space, and houses the 2,000 plaster casts that make up the Royal Cast Collection.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
• While techniques vary, a standard process is to make a plaster cast, design the prosthetic based on photos and video, then build it out with durable thermoplastics and metal.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 21 Dec. 2020
• Just as dreamy: Gail Folwell’s life-size plaster casts of human heads, which contain secret and super-tiny bronze human figures inside of them.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 23 Nov. 2019
• Famed archaeologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald hid the collection from the invaders for the next three years, at one point swapping the skulls for plaster casts for fear of plunder.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• Ever wonder what a contemporary version of a Roman plaster cast gallery might look like?
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• To create these lifelike busts, Gurche starts with a plastic or plaster cast of the most complete skull available for each species, typically provided by an expert in the field.
  — Jennifer Barone, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2010
• CAT scans sweep away old certainties by peering into Fiorelli’s thick plaster casts and drawing a clearer picture of victims and what happened to them.
  — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2019
• Montagut walks readers through Paris’s flea markets, shows off his beloved plaster cast collection and takes readers through private homes, ateliers and antiques shops around France.
  — John Wogan Laura Bannister Tariro Mzezewa Elissa Suh Dana Covit Jameson Montgomery, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Outdoor activities range from growing plants in a bucket to making a plaster cast of animal tracks.
  — oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2020
• Ultimately, Saint-Gaudens died from cancer in 1907, leaving only plaster casts of the sculptures.
  — Victoria Dawson, Smithsonian, 18 July 2017
• Sullivan took plaster casts of patients’ noses, creating a fibreglass mask that tubing could be attached to.
  — Neil Steinberg, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2019
• Hubby is actually making a plaster cast of his pregnant wife’s belly and breasts so that once the baby arrives — soon, really soon — it can be decorated and then adorn a wall in the nursery.
  — Christine Dolen, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2022

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