How to Use plastic foam in a Sentence

plastic foam

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• Rod butts are either cork or EVA (a kind of plastic foam).
  — Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2020
• In the meantime, the plastic foam beasts will remain locked in the kitchen for safekeeping.
  — Danica Kirka, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2022
• The Hawaiian version stands apart, mostly for the thickness of the Wagyu meat, a crown of Spam and a plastic foam cup of gravy.
  — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
• Wrap plastic foam egg shapes with crepe paper, and attach the ends with glue or a small straight pin.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2022
• Wrap plastic foam egg shapes with crepe paper, and attach the ends with glue or a small straight pin.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
• Wrap plastic foam egg shapes ($4, Joann) with crepe paper, and secure the ends with glue or a small straight pin.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2022
• Chunks of plastic foam used to ship TVs and the like can be used (but not foam peanuts, which become a pain to extract when the pot is emptied).
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
• Check around your foundation for the vents and cut wood or plastic foam blocks to fit vent openings, then slide them in to get through the cold spell.
  — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Check around your foundation for the vents and cut wood or plastic foam blocks to fit vent openings, then slide them in to get through the cold spell.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
• Wood shelf, sticks, Aqua-Resin, Apoxie Sculpt, plastic foam.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• Caviar in a plastic foam to-go box doesn’t hit the same, though McGovern thought about osetra-to-go.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• Create various lengths of snakes by cutting them in two; arrange them at the edge of thick plastic foam board and glue to the edges.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
• Wrap plastic foam balls of various sizes with orange, cream, and black yarn.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Oct. 2022
• Cigarette butts and chunks of plastic foam swirled around her legs in murky water that reeked of rotting fish.
  — Dake Kang, ajc, 30 July 2021
• That’s displaced a tremendous amount of single use plastic foam.
  — Simon Mainwaring, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Also outlawed are shredded paper (whether bound in bags or not) and plastic foam.
  — Jordan Cutler-Tietjen, sacbee, 10 July 2018
• Even on the uninhabited island, plastic foam, bottles and bags were all over the place.
  — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 14 May 2018
• For the 100 or so figures and scenes, models were sculpted out of plastic foam: images of the play’s characters and their ancestors.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
• Carol Duvall looked at the plastic foam trays that meat or vegetables come packaged in and saw picture frames.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Even insulated in cardboard or plastic foam, wines can bake on a cross-country truck ride.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• Pompano Beach last year began requiring all city vendors and food providers at city events to avoid putting takeout food in plastic foam clamshells.
  — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 June 2018
• And a growing number of states and cities have introduced bans on single-use plastic bags or plastic foam products.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2022
• New York City is considering a ban on plastic foam food containers, and SeaWorld has banned plastic bags and straws from many of its theme parks.
  — Scott Berson, miamiherald, 13 June 2018
• There’s a practical reason for this, since plastic foam is cheaper and more forgiving — and much, much lighter — than granite.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• Her new pieces are covered in small, colored plastic foam beads to suggest heathered wool or multicolored sand.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• In 2019, the city began enforcing a ban on plastic foam takeout containers.
  — Laura Nahmias, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• Others have banned plastic foam products, which can’t be recycled.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• Traffic was tied up in Euless on Wednesday morning after an 18-wheeler's trailer burst open and scattered pieces of plastic foam on the highway.
  — Loyd Brumfield, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2019
• Commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 2018 piece was hand-carved in cork and plastic foam before being cast in bronze.
  — Peggy McGlone, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
• Cars thunked across the Interstate 64 bridges overhead; candy wrappers, beer cans and plastic foam food containers littered the weeds along the sidewalk.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024