How to Use wallboard in a Sentence

wallboard

noun
  • The reasoning here is that closed-cell gives off too much heat to spray behind the wallboard, but open-cell does not.
    Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
  • Next door, at 111 Pearl, wallboard was starting to be installed on the upper floors.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Before spackling, make sure the hole is flat with the surrounding wallboard.
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The state spent almost $6 million to seal the brick building, replace the roof and remove wallboard and carpet that had been damaged by leaks.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The state spent nearly $6 million on repairs to seal the building, replace the roof and remove wallboard and carpet that had been damaged by leaks.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • If any cash-flow problems loomed, word had not reached the workers who bustled around the house on Tuesday, repainting the stoop, doing wiring and installing wallboard.
    Andy Newman, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • In addition to fill, coal ash also is often used in the production of gypsum wallboard and concrete.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Their pale fluctuating grids are made from incised wallboard whose tiny squares have been stained different shades of gray.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 25 May 2017
  • Prices and availability of wood, steel, wallboard, copper and PVC piping, cement, and paint make building tough to keep on track and expensive to do.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • More than half was turned into other materials such as cement, grout and wallboard.
    Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 7 Dec. 2021
  • His 12-year-old son, Isaiah, had spent the previous day ripping damaged wallboard from neighbors’ houses.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The mounting tape should not be applied to wallpaper, wallboard, plaster, or veneer surfaces.
    Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The reports included photographs of foundation fractures and cracks in wallboard and tile.
    Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The old concrete-block-and-wallboard storage building, approximately 36 feet long by 30 feet wide, was cluttered at one end with paint cans, carpentry tools, a chair and a rusting garage heater.
    Michael Futch, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The piles up and down this street, and along many other nearby streets — shards of wallboard and mildewing carpet, artificial flowers and computer monitors — stand taller than some people.
    John Schwartz and Alan Blinder, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Demand for lumber, wallboard, insulation and the like typically follows a pattern, Shute said.
    NBC News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Makers of chemicals, cat litter, fertilizer, paper, wallboard and steel have told investors over the past few weeks that lower gas bills are easing cost pressures and bolstering profit margins.
    Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 28 June 2023
  • Several searchers walked carefully in the midday heat Sunday atop a pile of wallboard, framing timber and personal effects, including a big chair and carpeted climbing structure for pet cats.
    Scott Calvert, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2018
  • Still others often penetrate deep into wallboard, drapes and upholstery.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Mar. 2020
  • But some interior damage occurred, such as wallboard seams separating and the water tank valve malfunctioning.
    Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Profits are being pinched at businesses ranging from beer-box makers and wallboard manufacturers to bitcoin miners, and higher costs are trickling down to prices for consumers and putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.
    WSJ, 27 May 2022
  • The white-colored material, which looks like the clean gypsum used in wallboard, contains measurable quantities of radium, uranium, thorium, radon, and a variety of toxic heavy metals.
    Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The family was still consigned to five rooms upstairs, and Ms. Swanson, 48, a senior executive assistant at an industrial automation company, was downstairs watching a YouTube demonstration of how to hang wallboard.
    Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • And owners must address visible mold by using dehumidifiers, fixing structural problems, using bleach and replacing porous surfaces like wallboard that have become moldy.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Firefighters said they are particularly worried about fire risk before the installation of interior wallboard, sprinklers and alarms that help protect residents.
    Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The vibrations coming through the ceiling will be almost impossible to mitigate without opening up the ceiling and putting in vibration-dampening, then installing soundproofing insulation and wallboard — a very daunting challenge.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Asbestos has been used for decades in insulation and fireproofing materials, automotive brakes and textile products, and cement and wallboard materials.
    Korin Miller, Health.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Historically, it has been used in a range of commercial products such from insulation and fireproofing materials, to automotive brakes, and wallboard materials.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Foundation Building Materials Inc., a distributor of items including wallboard, metal framing and ceiling systems, has filed for an initial public offering.
    Josh Beckerman, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Impressively, all students are receiving vocational education instruction in tool identification and use, tool safety and basic construction skills, framing and wallboard installation.
    Maj. Gen. Laurie Hummel | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2018

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