How To Use Plaster In A Sentence

Marcus Aurelius's hair stands energetically up, a nimbus of corkscrewing locks, not a bit like the conventional signs for hair that plaster so many Roman marble crania. The Forever City
For verrucae and warts place a drop of neat Tea Tree Essential Oil in the centre and cover with a plaster once a day, this procedure can take a couple of weeks before you will see the results.
To make such a rectangular and austere space appropriate for music, walls are treated with acoustic plaster and ceilings are absorbent too.
The ceiling he had just plastered fell in and knocked him off his ladder.
The Bedroom In The Sky is three-quarters windowed and the last window blocked off with a hardboard offcut insulated, floored, plasterboarded, plumbed and wired. April 1st, 2007

Other handy bits and pieces like plasters, handkerchief, aftersun and a needle and thread can also come in handy, and don't take up too much room.
The lath-and-plaster technique involves constructing a frame with rebar and attaching diamond metal lath (the same lath used for plastering walls) with tie wire to the frame.
More than 70 marble, bronze, terracotta and plaster busts and life-size sculptures are on display together for the first time in nearly two centuries.
He skipped bail and was caught trying to steal a chicken sandwich and some plasters. Times, Sunday Times
Free-range pigs have shelters shaped as triangles or half circles, but most porkers were lurking inside; pine trees had snow plastered on the north side of their trunks and the hot sun on the south side.
The chimney, usually of lath and plaster, ending overhead in a cone and funnel for the smoke, was so roomy in old cottages as to accommodate almost the whole family sitting around the fire of logs piled in the reredosse in the middle, and there they carried on their winter's work. The Life of Thomas Telford
Paper will start to peel from the wall, and in the worst cases plaster will start to crumble.
The skin wound was dressed with gauze, and sterile plaster wool was applied.
Inside, the walls were all plastered and painted pale colours with cream carpets - very novel for the early 1970s in Ireland.
The guy had one arm in a plaster cast and he's lucky it's not two now.
People are going to know who I am because I'm on telly and in magazines and have my big mush plastered about everywhere.
Period features throughout include marble fireplaces and decorative plasterwork. Times, Sunday Times
Originally, the small church was equipped by elaborate vaulting and plasterwork, and the pavement was covered by tiles.
Features include mouldings, polished timber floors, high ceilings and decorative plasterwork.
Political posters are plastered all over the walls and even on the concrete security barriers.
Decorated in pale green, it has decorative ceiling plasterwork, a white marble fireplace and French doors to the back garden.
The units will have fully fitted offices with suspended ceilings, recessed lighting, painted and plastered walls, perimeter trunking and gas fired central heating.
I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster. Là-bas
Plastering was performed by masons until it became a specialty of its own in the nineteenth century.
Rather than open beams, the room has a plaster ceiling formed into rectangular panels but leaving the central wood beam uncovered. Times, Sunday Times
So he has no plans to plaster the Colosseum with advertisements for his goods? Times, Sunday Times
A round tower of stakes and reeds, nine or ten feet high, is raised and plastered; a floor is next made of soft tufa, or ant-hill material and cowdung. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
The huddle of poor dwellings, too small to be named a village, clings plastered like martens' nests against rocks, high above a green river.
Next, wet adobe was plastered around the support, forming a casing around the body. INCA GOLD
It has now given its response, in which it also said the partition identified in the fire report was ‘not designated as a compartmental wall requiring double sheets of plasterboard to provide 60-minute fire resistance’.
Perhaps the artist has bee brought in to polychrome a plaster relievo for an architectural decoration, and it is some third party sculptors studio. Easel on Rails
The interior teems with antiquity: ornate plasterwork, a huge inglenook, stained glass, elaborate panelling and a plank and muntin screen. Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk
Old Drury Lane has called me in, with jealousy to cover 'em, And sent me round with their own bills, to go and plaster over 'em.
Then the wiglet, or transformation, was plastered over the front part, and Miss Blake's Sunday hat, which is of a very brisk character, with half a blue bird in it, was placed on top of everything. New Treasure Seekers
In removing the uppermost layer of painted plaster from the cut-out chunk of wall, conservators discovered an underlying sinopia or underdrawing.
Leave that ratty plasterwork to get rattier. Times, Sunday Times
-- This plaster is a kind of varnished silk, and its manufacture is very easy. One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed
We were plastered from head to foot with mud.
The plaster on the walls has been removed to expose the original bricks underneath.
The book's showbiz scenarios mock theatrical and film prototypes and stereotypes - the revolving cast and their scrimshank plaster-of-Paris mise-en-scene go round and round on the book's gigantic turntable, a shambolic revue, a whirlwind farce ... Comments for RealityStudio
His broken leg was encased in plaster.
If we may trust the old marbles, my friend with his arm stretched over my head, above there, (in plaster of Paris,) or the discobolus, whom one may see at the principal sculpture gallery of this metropolis, -- those Greek young men were of supreme beauty. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
He is finding the plaster uncomfortable because the skin underneath feels itchy. Times, Sunday Times
Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood.
I put over the wounds a great plaster of diachylum, wherewith I had mixed oil of roses, and vinegar, to avoid inflammation. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
It is then picked up by tiny pieces of recycled glass in the lime plaster on the walls. Times, Sunday Times
First, a scratch coat is troweled onto the lath; the plaster oozes through the lath and grips the backing when it hardens.
Inside they found a black-grayish basalt mummiform sarcophagus coated with a layer of earth and potsherds affixed to the lid with plaster. Czech Egyptologists Open Shaft Tomb, Identify Royal Burial at Abusir
Dry the wound by patting it with clean pieces of gauze and apply a plaster large enough to cover the surrounding area. Times, Sunday Times
I came up again to float on my back, short hair fanning around me, bangs plastered to my forehead.
Patience is a plaster for all sores.
Smear cream on to your baby's skin at the edges of the plaster to prevent it from rubbing.
It was mightily impressive bowling by any standards, and with his left hand in plaster it was quite remarkable.
The ante-room has red quarries on the floor and heavily plastered brick walls.
Her hair is plastered down with only a few stray hairs escaping.
A stroll through the California State Capitol (10th and L Streets; 916-324-0333; www. capitolmuseum.ca.gov) - a neo-Classical confection of Corinthian and other classic columns, parget plasterwork and mosaic floors - makes everything feel like it's in grand order. NYT > Home Page
You walked into school with the biggest dorkiest smile plastered on your face.
Paintings of fleshy nudes line the walls, and pillars are plastered with pictures of a chubby comic book character.
Her broken leg was put in a plaster cast.
Ragged fire from the slug guns ended in a choking cloud of plaster dust and an ear-splitting roar as most of the west wall fell, severed from its foundations by the azoth Silk had received from Doctor Crane and given to Maytera Mint. Exodus From The Long Sun
Two walls were re-plastered in the current phase and it is hoped to replaster the final two in the last phase.
Generally, indoor radon is the main source of construction materials, such as granite, tile and plaster, particularly the stones containing radioelement Yi release radon.
In Dylan's day most of the walls were decorated with flowered paper, and there were plaster reproductions of Greek statues about the place, displayed by cultured D.J.
In the exhibition, the piece was perhaps over-represented by smaller bronze versions, a plaster maquette, a giant photo-mural on cloth and a handsome new series of six inkjet prints.
To do this, they administered purgatives and astringent gargles, prescribed cauteries and blisters on the neck and behind the ears, and on occasion even encased the whole head in plaster to dry it out. Knotted Tongues
The decorative plasterwork bubbled and decayed; ceilings were held up by scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times
Both have polished floorboards, original cast iron fireplaces with tiled insets and ornate period plasterwork.
The books were inspired by her being unable to find sticking plasters in any colour but pink. Times, Sunday Times
Upon entering the hall from the gallery of the rotunda, the viewer faced the elevated rostrum of the speaker at the south end, located under an arch that featured coffers filled with plaster rosettes.
The reason that the face is fresh in my mind is because it's plastered all over LA.
Del Toro's wood-plank facade is now scuffed and plastered with concert bills, no sign or door in sight.
The necessary rewiring, replumbing and heating upgrades coupled with the age of the property suggest it would make sense to have all walls and ceilings replastered.
Eight-eyes glued to the plasterboard screen, we witnessed the power of hope amidst prejudice and unreward as the "indigenous" soldiers (aka the Algerian Infantry Division) arrived in France from the colonies to help free their "motherland". WWII soldiers remembrance
These boards were erected vertically, butted side-by-side, to form the walls and then dressed out with furring strips and lath & plaster interior walls and the exterior covered with shiplap siding on the street-facing wall and tapered cypress weatherboard siding on the remaining exterior walls. Rebuilding New Orleans? « BuzzMachine
They would also replaster and repaint the rest of the house. Times, Sunday Times
She glared at her plastered mother, bending over to clean up the broken pieces of the mug.
It has lots of oak-panelled walls and ceilings - and wonderful plaster mouldings. Times, Sunday Times
An endless series of powders, theriacs, electuaries, leeches, mixtures and tablets of various types, decoctions, ointments and plasters were discussed and classified.
He restored the brickwork, plastering, floors and ceilings room by room.
Great care must be taken, especially with the fitting of plasters, to prevent chafing and subsequent ulcer formation elsewhere on the foot or ankle.
The 50 cm plaster duck has a little cowbell on its neck, to prove that it's really not alive, as the cowbell remains silent.
But in the next 12 months alone, there is a need for almost 200 lime plasterers, around 140 wattle and daub craftspeople, over 100 glaziers and almost 60 cob builders and dry stone wallers.
The mansion was of plaster striped with timber, called calamanco work.
One Russian businessman even ordered an exact copy of a room at the palace of Versailles for his house in Knightsbridge, complete with identical cornices and plasterwork, as well as real gold leaf and plating.
No baseboards, door frames, or other woodwork interrupt its plaster walls.
To prevent relapses, when the last plaster cast is removed a splint must be worn full-time for two to three months and thereafter at night for 2 to 4 years.
Walls are plastered with posters of fresh-faced teenagers.
This is the equivalent of the Mexican "jacal" construction, and consists of series of poles or logs planted vertically in the ground close to each other and plastered with mud either outside or on both sides. The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198
The discovery of two inkwells and a plastered table and bench strongly suggested that one of the rooms was a scriptorium, a room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts.
Patience is the plaster of all sores.
To the right, both of the interconnecting reception rooms have original fireplaces, plasterwork and window shutters.
The cracks in the ceiling have to be plastered over before you can start painting.
Fasten the corners of the gypsum lath or wallboard to the existing lath behind the plaster.
Techniques were copied from America - for example, by the French Baron Mackau, who plastered Paris with a reputed two million posters for an election in 1889.
Cut lath and plaster with a reciprocating saw fitted with a coarse, wood-cutting blade.
That includes showing that the supporters of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army framed for leaking secret documents, were not plasterboard saints. Ruth Harris's "Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century"
The storage room has exposed brick and plaster walls, a stone floor and an unusual ox's harness chandelier.
The room had roughly plastered walls and a low ceiling supported on enormous joists trimmed out of whole trees.
In the book of Daniel the hand that traces the warning words upon the walls of Belshazzar's palace traces them "_upon the plaster of the wall_" (DANIEL v. 5). A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
The Defendant is a German company, domiciled in Germany which manufactures and supplies liner paper for gypsum plasterboard.
Buy the correct length to go through handrail and plaster and into solid brick, block or stone behind.
Polished plaster is hard-wearing and durable, needing only occasional dusting and an annual re-wax.
He works on a plaster slab, drawing with commercial underglazes in reverse.
In addition to a softer color, color washing can accentuate the texture of your plaster or stucco walls.
Yucatán Maya mostly live in huts of plastered limestone or tree trunks with steep thatched roofs.
Clean and dry it, then cover with a plaster. Times, Sunday Times
I stick plasters on three toes to prevent blisters, and a gel cushion on my big toes to protect my toenails.
Her husband had died when a pilaster of brick and smokey plaster came down on him like a wave. Bringing Them Home
The maid had called her signora; but that might have been a disguise, like the mask and the patches of court-plaster. The Lure of the Mask
Materials are simple: plastered concrete block walls which anchor the house into the sandhills, are combined with timber-framed walls, cedar cladding and cedar framed windows.
Treat with blister plasters to reduce friction. Times, Sunday Times
His hair was plastered to his head and falling over his eyes, impairing his vision further.
The pigments, applied with water as a vehicle, are bound by the carbonation of the slaked lime in the fresh plaster.
He mixed up some plaster to repair the wall.
Unlike the houses in Kyphros, a lot of those on the edge of Sunta seemed to have thatched roofs, although the walls seemed to be plaster over a basketlike frame of saplings. The Death of Chaos
I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.] Old Calabria
Yorkshire Water employees seem to be making a habit of swopping their suits for T-shirts, jeans and wellies, and getting plastered in paint or mud.
The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older. The Sun
Houses with mosaics, plastered walls and ceilings, under-floor heating, and their own bath-suites were built in town and country alike.
Depending on the size of the room, an experienced plasterer could skim-coat the walls and ceiling in a couple of hours.
These protected gypsum plaster soil blocks developed sufficient strength to act as load bearing blockwork. Chapter 5
Plaster, like sand, lime and cement, is not an expensive material and at its simplest level is not difficult to use.
The old houses we love and live in are almost all distinguished by the pervasive use of plasterwork.
Here wide varnished floorboards are set against rich yellow walls, more ornate plasterwork and a large cast-iron fireplace.
This promise was printed prominently on the face of shinplasters to inspire trust and acceptance.
If the walls are uneven, you may have to replaster, put up plasterboard or special tile backer boards. Times, Sunday Times
They started by taking the plaster off the outside walls.
Plasters and stuccos are spread by hand or trowel, or sprayed on with a mechanical sprayer or pump.
These repairs uncovered extensive water damage to the supporting timbers, stonework and plaster, and it was feared that the church might be bulldozed.
The external plaster was replaced with a lime-based plaster to allow the stone rubble walls to breathe.
The interiors contain no drywall or plaster, and exterior cladding comprises cedar shingles and plywood.
The walls, plastered with painted murals of epic battles and heroic deeds, were additionally decorated with the colorful banners and standards of several dukedoms.
For old ulcers which occur on the fore part of the legs; they become bloody and black: - Having pounded the flower of the melilot and mixed it with honey, use as a plaster. On Ulcers
Façades were further decorated with virtuoso sgraffiti, the top layer of plaster etched away to reveal a contrasting colour beneath.
In some homes, instead of bare timber ceilings, the rafters would be concealed with plaster, which also was sometimes decorative.
The bullet slammed into the ceiling(Sentence dictionary), spraying them with bits of plaster.
Recent excavations noted a plaster render on the north face of the Wall.
The Marx Brothers stow away in "Monkey Business" (1931), and a soda fountain is sabotaged with boozy "lemon syrup" in "Caught Plastered" (1931). On Screen: Rare Comedy for Cinephiles
Gilbert's medical treatment of vesical calculus consists generally in the administration of diuretics and lithontriptics and the local application of poultices, plasters and inunctions of various kinds. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
Gypsum starts to calcine from around 100ºC, and since set plaster is actually gypsum, the plaster moulds also become calcined on heating. 9. Drying of ware and moulds
He was taken to hospital in Brighton and had to have a plaster cast. The Sun
I will fabricate an award out of tin foil and plaster in recognition of that unsolicited macro-economic titbit, which is quite true enough. Priestly Castes and Political Exclusion
A puny midwife fumbles with exploding plaster wombs, plastic foetuses, rubber birth canals and disintegrating umbilical cords.
Used primarily to make plaster, plasterboard and cement, gypsum has been excavated in East Sussex since the 1880s and the mine remains the UK's largest deposit with at least 30 years of reserves. South Downs gypsum mining unearths fortune in heart of 1066 country
A doctor asked permission for some medical students to see how the wrist was set in plaster.
On the bathroom ceiling, some pieces of plaster had fallen away.
Little sticking plasters for big wounds. Times, Sunday Times
But Jean-Michel's gallantries were a welcome antidote to plaster dust and grisly discoveries about underground pipes.
His company had plastered posters and media stories around the area telling everyone that track repair work would mean no trains that day and advertising replacement buses.
Her hair was plastered to her skull, there were lines of mascara running down her cheeks, and the bright shapeless red ... thing she was wearing looked like it had come straight out of a washer's spin-dry cycle. Sully's Kids
Wall materials such as stucco, cement, brick, plaster, stone, and block are most resistant to high temperatures.
It was a common little church enough, with a large mortuary chapel, where all the Danvers family reposed; ancient Danvers lying in armor, with their mailed hands joined, beside their wives; more modern Danvers kneeling in bass-relief in colored plaster and execrable taste in recesses. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
Inside the quality finishes include cherry wood panelling, decorative plaster ceilings and marble floors.
It was she who welcomed me into their small flat in a building so cheaply and recently erected that it still smelled dankly of fresh plaster.
Although the jalousies are painted green, the interiors are not gloomy. In fact, the grass green color becomes more luminous in certain light and particularly when reflected off the plaster ceilings.
The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings, leading on to the moor itself.
On Friday, a Miami-Dade circuit court judge unsealed a 2007 confidential settlement agreement where KPT agreed to pay Banner $557,000 to replace defective drywall with the condition that Banner "not make statements regarding any perceived or actual smell or health risks relating to Knauf Tianjin plasterboard," to any firm, person, or news media outlet. Documents Shift Attention to Manufacturer in Drywall Case
The arch, which frames the stage like a massive soccer goal, was made by master craftsmen using laths and plaster.
Or you can really blow the budget and install speakers in the wall behind the plaster. Times, Sunday Times
He had a proud, smug, smile plastered over his dark face, eyeing Sora knowingly as if he finally got the answer he needed.
He prescribed me the usual sudorific, ordered a mustard-plaster to be put on, very deftly slid a five-rouble note up his sleeve, coughing drily and looking away as he did so, and then was getting up to go home, but somehow fell into talk and remained. A Sportsman's Sketches
Earthen plasters are breathable, allowing whatever moisture may be in the bale walls to escape.
Allow at least one week before doing anything at all, and wait until the plaster has lightened in colour and appears dry. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of using the tried and tested method (egg tempera on wet plaster), however, he used a paint of his own invention.
Walls between practice rooms and studios are made of heavy concrete blocks with independent plasterboard inner skins to prevent lateral sound transmission.
An old household broom is useful for this operation 4 For a really smooth surface, use a plastering float.
This major retrospective of British sculptor Henry Moore consists of some 120 works, including drawings, maquettes, plasters, wood and stone carvings, and large bronzes.
The sets were lavishly grungy: all rusting metalwork, peeling plaster and torn posters.
This means we're now ready for the plasterer to come and replaster the walls and make them look lovely.
My hair was plastered down on my head and tied in a knot in the back so that it would be good and, you know, tight and flat.
His dark hair was plastered to his forehead by sweat and the general moisture in the air.
I think my first aid kit is entirely made up of big plasters.
The exposition was a hit and so were the elaborate plaster ornamentation, wrought-iron grills and tile roofs.
But she is at the stage when a plaster is a badge of bravery and a small price for scientific advancement. Times, Sunday Times
The same team also produced a plaster cast of the archivolt of the first and second niche of the fountain's back wall, of which many parts are missing, to serve as a model for carving these elements. Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Restoration & Conservation Report 5
Your starving eyes and allbeplastered neck you stole my heart, O gluepot. Ulysses
He was very charming and told a story about getting plastered with him.
He had bruises on his face, a scratch on one of his lips, sticking-plaster on his left wrist and thumb, and a bandage on his right shoulder.
The filters were completely clogged with plaster dust.
A technique called pulse magnetic therapy is used to heal broken bones that won't mend under plaster, and it has also been shown to help with arthritis.
A service professional can also advise on stripping paint from plaster walls and ensuring that the new paint adheres to the surface.
The war had by this time produced two comparatively new industries. One was the issuing of "shinplaster" currency, and the other was the manufacture of fruit brandy. The end of an era,
But now, Sabu often works in the same place with simple materials such as plaster of Paris, coir fibre and gunny cloth, things that charm him forever.
The more familiar you are with your materials, and the larger you make your test patches, the fewer the surprises you'll find when plastering the walls for real.
The sight of a man holding a plaster cast record of the tracks of a mysterious beast started the modern Bigfoot legend.
They played up the contrast between plastered surfaces and the peperino stone in the footings, projecting windowsills, and coping.
Seeing this, Mrs. Jo proposed that she should learn how to do it nicely, and Nursey had an apt pupil in bandaging, plastering, and fomenting. Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
This material consisted mainly of ceramics (of which a high percentage of unguentaria fragments), fauna (animal bone of sheep and goat; parts that served for consumption) and concentrations of metal (nails) and stucco (painted plaster found in a specific lenzing within the debris). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths
I cursed some more, managed to staunch the flow, hopped around like a deranged Morris dancer until I could reach a plaster, patched myself up and went back to bed.
Round huts called mundals are made from poles and brush or vines plastered with mud, animal dung, and ashes and covered with a broad, cone-shaped thatched roof.
The root was fixed in position with a small quantity of plaster of Paris, and the whole seedling was covered loosely with the wetted soil.
If you need to replaster, use lime plaster where practical; it breathes and is much more forgiving when damp. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed much Victorian plasterwork is highly ornamental too, though it rarely had the refinement of the Georgian period.
Fresh from the garden it might have been once, but then it was preserved, processed, packaged, plastered with a label boasting how fresh it is then finally sent to wait for you in your supermarket. Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Listening To Your Broccoli
They can get good apprenticeships, they can earn a lot of money being a bricklayer, plasterer or hairdresser. Times, Sunday Times
He would cut a negative into wet sand and pour plaster into the sand mold.
That was way before we got together, and it was the only glimmer of my plastered persona that she's seen.
The original buildings were constructed of timber and stone masonry, covered with white-washed plaster.
To top this off, they cake on makeup like plaster on a sheet of drywall.
Sympathetically and lovingly restored by the Lorimer family around 1878, it has magnificent plaster ceilings, painted panelling and furniture designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.

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