How To Use Plastered In A Sentence

The ceiling he had just plastered fell in and knocked him off his ladder.
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.
Inside, the walls were all plastered and painted pale colours with cream carpets - very novel for the early 1970s in Ireland.
People are going to know who I am because I'm on telly and in magazines and have my big mush plastered about everywhere.
Political posters are plastered all over the walls and even on the concrete security barriers.

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The units will have fully fitted offices with suspended ceilings, recessed lighting, painted and plastered walls, perimeter trunking and gas fired central heating.
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
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
We were plastered from head to foot with mud.
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 came up again to float on my back, short hair fanning around me, bangs plastered to my forehead.
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.
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.
Two walls were re-plastered in the current phase and it is hoped to replaster the final two in the last phase.
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.
She glared at her plastered mother, bending over to clean up the broken pieces of the mug.
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.
The cracks in the ceiling have to be plastered over before you can start painting.
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.
The room had roughly plastered walls and a low ceiling supported on enormous joists trimmed out of whole trees.
Yucatán Maya mostly live in huts of plastered limestone or tree trunks with steep thatched roofs.
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.
His hair was plastered to his head and falling over his eyes, impairing his vision further.
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.
The walls, plastered with painted murals of epic battles and heroic deeds, were additionally decorated with the colorful banners and standards of several dukedoms.
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
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
The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings, leading on to the moor itself.
He had a proud, smug, smile plastered over his dark face, eyeing Sora knowingly as if he finally got the answer he needed.
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.
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.
They played up the contrast between plastered surfaces and the peperino stone in the footings, projecting windowsills, and coping.
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.
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
That was way before we got together, and it was the only glimmer of my plastered persona that she's seen.
The perimeter cavity walls of the building, face brick outside, plastered blockwork inside, exhibit slight but widespread cracking at many locations.
Why aren't stories like this plastered all over the mainstream media?
Of old he had been known as a shiftless and harddrinking mountaineer with a sour farm that was plastered with mortgages. His Dog
Each little sound echoed hollow and loud from the bare, stone-flagged floors, the plastered walls, and the iron-joisted ceiling. Whirligigs
Tresses of their hair were plastered with gobbets of flesh on the ceilings. Times, Sunday Times
Thick plastered brick walls, also called mamposteria, perforated with a colonnade of arches which in fact were the structural supports for the roof.
The press then mysteriously get involved and it's plastered all over the front pages.
You can then get your colleagues absolutely plastered before she gets there. The Sun
Number 9 has been reroofed and replastered and features an extended kitchen/breakfast room with fitted oak units and built-in wardrobes in two of the bedrooms.
‘Wow, you're sure chipper this morning,’ Alex commented on the grin plastered on his sister's face.
They will live in the temporary accommodation for six to eight weeks while their homes are gutted and replastered.
His hair an unwrung mop drizzling icy rivers into his ears and eyes, wet clothes plastered to his freezing body, Jason rose and took inventory: The bottle was fine. The Deed
However, the outside walls were never plastered and asbestos was the material used for the roof.
My hands, boots and trousers were plastered with mud.
He bled into the darkness between every light plastered on the ceiling, only displaying his head and shoulders in the caliginous luminosity, fading back to darkness as he walked forward.
In my plastered state, I wander down to the beach with a few others in the same condition.
With its no-frills, unplastered concrete walls and battered equipment, half of the thrill of training there is its edgy feel. Times, Sunday Times
- (familiar/slang) prendre une cuite/se cuiter = to get plastered/pissed .... The French word for plastered drunk... - French Word-A-Day
Behind an apparently innocent piece of wall was a secret doorway that had been plastered over and sealed.
If you get completely plastered, and wander home inanely grinning at passers-by, you're not a problem.
mud-beplastered arguments
The next day their picture was plastered all over the newspapers.
The brick walls will be plastered and painted and there will be improvements to toilets and disabled access with work starting in the next few weeks.
The sloped ceilings were plastered, the cream plaster discolored in places, completely broken away in others.
A look of repulsion for the sickening display of uncontrolled emotion and loud drunkenness was plastered on his clean-shaven face.
His hair was plastered to his forehead with sweat.
I saw it plastered across the face of every entitled frat boy who already knew his way was paved. The Republic of T.
Today's papers are plastered with yesterday's terror threats.
He was a large, barrel-chested man in his early forties, his black hair plastered to his skull with hair cream.
The developer originally applied for tax credits for rehabilitating a historic building, but the credits came with a stipulation that the original plastered ceilings and walls be preserved.
They plastered on more cosmetics, and right at the end of the line their aura changed. YELLOW BIRD
My shoes were covered/plastered in/with mud.
It flies from every third building, it is emblazoned on shop displays, plastered on the bumpers of cars, and scrawled on anti-war banners.
The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older. The Sun
Seeing signs plastered everywhere has got me wondering about how it is organised, and now I know.
How much of this explosive information was plastered across the front pages of the Australian media?
The walls in these villages are plastered with cement or mud and most of the houses have thatched roofs.
In this work, Geers has plastered a wall with broken green glass bottles stuck in cement in an aggressive statement of repulsion.
His hair was plastered down to his scalp by the rain.
Preservation workers stripped the building to its original structure and replastered it.
The catted chimneys were of logs plastered with clay, or platted, that is, made of reeds and mortar; and as wood and hay were stacked in the streets, all the early towns suffered much from fires, and soon laws were passed forbidding the building of these unsafe chimneys; as brick was imported and made, and stone was quarried, there was certainly no need to use such danger-filled materials. Home Life in Colonial Days
His hair was plastered down to his scalp by the rain.
All village fires were doused and fireplaces plastered afresh. Times, Sunday Times
Round the corner is a place that sells old furniture and reconditioned fridges and ovens, all plastered with neon cardboard stars, scrawled with marker pen prices.
The plasterboard went up a treat over the weekend, all I have to do now is to try and get it cleaned up and plastered this week before the tiler comes on Monday to lay the floor.
When he nodded, she sat back happily, a grin plastered on her face.
Painted all over the parchment that had been plastered to the walls, were verses of poetry.
The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters
And in her front room every inch of wall space was plastered with album covers, clocks, pictures, newspaper cuttings and a large Ziggy Stardust mirror.
Who's more appropriate to encourage us to get plastered than the kings of arena rock and roll?
She had photos of him plastered all over her bedroom wall.
Water plastered my hair to my red, sweaty face and I ended up looking more like a drenched beach ball than anything else.
Her normally perfect ash-blonde hair was plastered to her forehead, and her cheekbones glistened in the dim light.
Pictures of stick-thin, actually quite ill-looking young women are plastered everywhere.
Her image is plastered on billboards and bedroom walls all over Korea.
`Now don't ya go and get yerself and Luke all soggy and plastered with that rotgut licker, Toby Casteel," she warned. WEB OF DREAMS
The villagers are wide-eyed with superstition, and crucifixes are plastered everywhere.
The parents went on and on about how Daniel is usually so shy, but he really loved me, and my peaceful meal turned into me trying to appease some young chitterling at the next table with some kind of rictus plastered across my weary face. Saru-san Diary Entry
As the temperatures reached 42C in Sydney last week, the brave boys were going through their drills plastered in sun-block and sporting sun-hats as they tried to acclimatise to the conditions.
It was a light purple, with pictures of the three of us plastered everywhere.
Harvey's face was near, his fair hair plastered close to the skull like golden syrup.
My hair was plastered to my head, and I raised my hand from instinct to fix it.
His coat was plastered with thick yellow mud.
The enemy plastered the troops in this position, particularly from the air, where he was unmolested, and followed the bombardment by a further attack on our position.
She had plastered her bedroom walls with photos of pop stars.
My hair was drenched and plastered to the sides of my face, and my sopping clothes clung tightly to my shivering body.
Central agencies use blotting paper and distilled water to remove the salt accretions and clear the micropores on the rock tablets, which is why visitors see a creamish mush plastered on the walls.
A brick floored outdoor porch leads to an inner hall with old polished floorboards and original white plastered walls.
Both sexes are plastered with band logos on bags, T-shirts, patches - Slipknot, Korn, The Deftones.
The boys then stood there and laughed at her as she floundered around in the water, her wet hair plastered over her face.
The property has been replastered, replumbed, rewired and damp-proofed.
The council have sent out plasterers but I send them away because I don't want it replastered and the cracks papered over.
Almost always, the walls are plastered and whitewashed.
They've had a call from the tenant who says that the shower is leaking into the apartment below and he thinks it's because the surrounding walls are plastered, not tiled.
Thick red lipstick was plastered on her full lips that matched with the blue eye shadow and thick mascara.
She continued walking, ignoring her hair plastered to her face, the way her clothes clung uncomfortably to her body.
Shouts echoed off the plastered ceilings and columned hall. Earl of Durkness
Now the worst-case scenario is a tabloid picture of plastered politician stumbling out of a Soho dive.
Day after day, the shocking images have been plastered all over the media.
The houses are mostly frame, unplastered, but "papered" inside with flour-sacks sewed together, and the handsomer the "brand" upon the sacks is, the neater the house looks. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866)
Mouldings may be applied to a plastered and muslined wall.
Having partaken of the contents of the vials, they slump in their chairs, empty smiles plastered on their faces, eyes rolling here, there, and everywhere. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
His picture's plastered all over the programme.
The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older. The Sun
The brick walls were plastered over with lime of which some traces can be seen.
Jaon was looking smug, with his usual devil-may-care smirk plastered on his face.
The high ceiling and the upper walls were plastered and whitewashed, a brilliant white in the illumination from skylights.
The following decades saw the surfer image plastered on billboards and glossy ads.
His hair was plastered to his face, and his coat felt like it was sticking to his skin.
The dwellers practiced minimal agriculture supplemented by hunting and gathering, made a simple red or brown pottery, and lived in pit houses and, later, above-ground jacales of adobe-plastered poles.
Downstairs some of the joists had to be replaced and some of the walls had to be chipped down to the brickwork and replastered.
We would be dripping cold water, plastered to our skin through our T-shirts.
The telephone numbers of councillors are plastered on the window. Times, Sunday Times
She was sitting in a hospital bed, her plastered leg up in the air.
And for any one who with Wordsworth's exquisite sonnet on King's College Chapel in his mind has the misfortune to enter that long tunnel, beplastered with false ornament, the disillusion is unforgettable. Impressions and Comments
By the time we got there I was completely plastered, but in an attempt to maintain the spirit of my recent life, I continued drinking, pausing only to glug some water when I thought I might vomit.
After a few moments she would rise up again, her white hair now plastered against her wrinkled but still elegant face. Times, Sunday Times
Scratched and beplastered with mud, they crawled out in muck which gripped them to the knees, and roosted like buzzards upon the butt of a prostrate live-oak. Blackbeard: Buccaneer
Recently replastered, rewired and damp-proofed by its architect owners, the house consists of a living room, two bedrooms, kitchen and shower room.
He has at bottom the feelings of a gentleman, but all these are plastered over with a stiff manner.
— it takes tremendous heart and a heckuva lot of guts to stand in front of an audience even one comprised of fellow love-festing backslappers with plastered smiles on their wine-tasting bonhomous faces…yes, Om, I AM making fun of you and talk about rewarding people whose contributions to greater society could lead to a more harmonious existence. Skype CEO for Nobel Prize?
Come, now, isn't it something worth living for to have one's coat and hat taken by one of this knot of magnificent crimson-velvet-coated, gold-beplastered, silken-calved beings who are ranged along the sides of the vestibule? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
To suggest that they may be unavoidable is merely to risk being plastered with those labels that we are all terrified of. Writers and Leviathan
The interior reliefs were plastered and painted with Christian saints and angels.
A small hall leads to the main kitchen/living area, where the most striking feature is the bright coral red paint used over textured plastered walls.
Likewise, a leaking tap or an airbrick that's been plastered over. Times, Sunday Times
The parents went on and on about how Daniel is usually so shy, but he really loved me, and my peaceful meal turned into me trying to appease some young chitterling at the next table with some kind of rictus plastered across my weary face. Saru-san Diary Entry
As an activist, sticker-plastered bullhorn in hand, he has led hunger strikes and helped organize protests against the National Hydrological Plan throughout Spain.
The cracks in the ceiling have to be plastered over before you can start painting.
The thin hair was plastered back onto his tanned skull. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
His wet hair was plastered to his head.
And in her front room every inch of wall space was plastered with album covers, clocks, pictures, newspaper cuttings and a large Ziggy Stardust mirror.
The storeman, plastered with snow, reappears hot and triumphant before the cook, but this dignitary is awkwardly kneading the dough of wholemeal scones, and the messman is feeding the fire with seal-blubber to ensure a "quick" oven. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
For the billboard, Kruger plastered her ‘Your body is a battleground’ slogan across a black and white photograph of a woman's horror-stricken face.
Punish Heidi's picture had been plastered all over the front page of a paper in Sri Lanka.
There were posters and tattoo designs plastered all over the walls.
Images of the formerly "perfect" teen idol in a state of shocking dishevelment and acting in an increasingly erratic fashion plastered the front pages of supermarket tabloids and celebrity magazines. Cathleen Falsani: Consuming Britney: Oops We Did It Again
It plastered their hair to their heads as they walked down the road, and chilled them to the bone.
Two years ago, an advertising agency plastered the Paris Metro stations with posters featuring kissing couples for a soft drink promotion.
No controls existed, and as a result adverts and theatre bills were plastered on every available space - hoardings, end walls of buildings, fences.
The floors are covered in polished terrazzo, and the walls seem to have been plastered with a purposefully cheesy sixties-era Formica laminate reminiscent of DiSpirito's old family home.
There are a couple of possible scenarios here that depend on how your wall was plastered.
The correspondence from them came on KPMG letterhead, with the logo plastered on every page.
Triangular pink stickers were plastered everywhere, on Levi's, sweat shirts, high-top sneakers -- even, prankishly, on the backs of unsuspecting football stars. Tune In, Come Out
He said he could use his toes from the plastered leg to operate one pedal and use the good leg for the other.
Huts are either circular or oblong with wattle (woven-stick) walls, plastered outside and inside with mud, and roofed with thatch.
It all sounds jolly odd to me, but as you're always saying, I'm just an old buffer, half plastered most of the time, but that's neither here nor there.
She could almost see the mischievous grin plastered on his face.
A cold sweat moistened his red hair and his bangs were plastered to his forehead.
The cast then decided to raid the BBC props department and greeted Patrick the next day covered in plastered arms, legs, necks and even in one case, a head.
Days later, pictures of the residents' ashen faces were plastered over the papers and broadcast on the news every night, invariably showing tightly strapped face-masks.
Nearby were high-status buildings made of stone with plastered walls and more humble structures on the outskirts of the city.
The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older. The Sun
The newspaper-plastered windows are plainly visible from the bus station.
He walked through the front entrance, following a plastered classmate who was having considerable difficulty standing up.
All village fires were doused and fireplaces plastered afresh. Times, Sunday Times
My shoes were plastered with mud.
His black hair was plastered down with it and his shirt was sticking to him.
She stopped and tilted her head to the side, but her dark hair remained plastered to her forehead, a few frizzy strands escaping her plait.
Do you know, he went up to see her with his red hair plastered down with lard until it was a dull maroon colour; his square cotton handkercher was perfumed with kerosene, and I tell you he was a sight and a smell to remember; but Drew's sister stood it without a word. Joyce of the North Woods
He was carrying a hemp messenger bag plastered with patches, and his combat boots were splattered with canary yellow paint.
Off to the side of a dusty gravel road, a car plastered with election stickers begs the curious to stop.
We were plastered from head to foot with mud.
Much to the surprise of the construction crew, all the interior walls were plastered and given a coat of white.
It began with race-hate posters plastered around the city, and escalated into a campaign of attacking Asian migrants and firebombing Chinese restaurants.
This floor has been re-wired, damp-proofed and re-plastered by the present owners, who have also installed central heating.
Come December every other house will be plastered in the tackiest of tacky flashing lights and we will laugh, regaling each other with sightings of aesthetic atrocities.
He has at bottom the feelings of a gentleman, but all these are plastered over with a stiff manner.
My walls and ceiling were plastered and at some point covered with wallpaper.
The large wooden door swung on its hinges, banging into the wall, cracking the plastered stone.
While it was true that she was still sticking to her almost all black Goth-Ick style of dress, it was the name brands plastered across her clothing that tipped me off to what she was up to and the exact subject matter of her monologue. The Devil’s in the Diva
He plastered the front hall with Christmas cards, new and old, and moved much of the living room furniture to the family room.

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