How To Use Plastering In A Sentence
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Candidates have been omnipotent as they vie for a place in the electorate's heart, or alternatively annoy a lot of people by plastering campus with publicity.
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When a group of natives have been robbed of them by thoughtless white men and have found the sacred store-house empty, they have tried to kill the traitor who betrayed the hallowed spot to the strangers, and have remained in camp for a fortnight weeping and wailing for the loss and plastering themselves with pipeclay, which is their token of mourning for the dead. [
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
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Soon we found ourselves teaching tinsmithing, plastering and painting.
Tuskegee: A Retrospect and Prospect
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The floor of the State dining-room, while not showing settlement, was so insufficiently supported as to cause the dishes on the sideboards to rattle when the waiters were serving, and the plastering below was badly cracked from excessive vibration.
Inside the White House | Edwardian Promenade
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With extraordinary promotional finesse, Buffalo Bill's Wild West heightened anticipatory excitement by plastering its tour route with colorful posters announcing upcoming show dates.
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The keep-fit addict said: "McDonalds restaurants use 100 per cent British beef, are cutting back hugely on salt levels, are promoting salads in all of its restaurants, and are plastering its packaging with nutritional information.
Where's the beef?
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Sainsburys really got behind Comic Relief, plastering their stores in red noses.
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Outside the cinema, a man on a ladder was plastering an advertisement for a film on top of the old notice.
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He loved the song and danced it exuberantly, perspiration plastering his bangs across his forehead and sending his glasses sliding down to the tip of his nose.
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However, the task will probably mean that the affected walls will need replastering, repainting, or wallpapering once the new plaster boards have been fitted.
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The major concern is emptying my entire bedroom for the builder who's replastering the walls.
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These same students in most cases help do the practical work of putting up the building -- some at the sawmill, the brick-yard, or in the carpentry, brickmaking, plastering, painting, and tinsmithing departments.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
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Mr Stevenson offers all general building services including plastering, joinery and brickwork.
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The other Congressman - a media hog (the sanctimonious, prematurely white-haired self-admitted cherisher of the voice of Rush Limbaugh, Mike Pence, who has built a thriving side business plastering his face across every TV and cable screen in the Western World).
Mary Lyon: Three Little Words
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The first job, after lowering the floors by 2ft, was rendering and replastering the cave walls and laying floor tiles.
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A clap of thunder reverberated, and rain began to pelt him, plastering his shirt to his back.
NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE
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He brushed a hand over his black hair, plastering it into comparative order.
ANTI-ICE
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Given that most properties will need new plumbing, wiring, flooring, damp-proofing, plastering and painting, not to mention new kitchens and bathrooms, figure on a budget of more than €50,000.
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Outside the cinema, a man on a ladder was plastering an advertisement for a film on top of the old notice.
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All she knew was that when they were finally done dancing, there was sweat plastering her hair to her forehead and she was surprised it wasn't dripping down her arms.
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Assistance for Grass Roots Projects was to equip disadvantaged jobless men and woman of Soweto with a one-year course in basic building skills such as bricklaying, plastering/tiling, roof finishing and plumbing.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Sue's cousin was plastering the ceiling in a dank basement.
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When I was over there a week ago, he'd brought thechairinto the kitchen, which was already half-covered with threatening notes, and started plastering over the appliances.
The Chair of Rejection
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That's a nod to the raincoat maker that transformed itself from tired to trendy by plastering its trademark plaid on everything from miniskirts to bikinis.
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The world is out of joint, so why bother plastering?
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Commercial Alert is appealing to journalists not to use the corporate names in sports articles - he says plastering ads in stories blurs the line between editorial and advertising.
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You can almost feel the energy blowing off the screen, mussing your hair and plastering a big smile onto your face.
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The DIY project involved creating ten special bays where students could learn skills ranging from wiring a plug to plastering a wall, she added.
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The defendant builders employed a subcontractor to carry out plastering work in a block of flats.
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Plastering was performed by masons until it became a specialty of its own in the nineteenth century.
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He restored the brickwork, plastering, floors and ceilings room by room.
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An old household broom is useful for this operation 4 For a really smooth surface, use a plastering float.
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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.
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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
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Whoever did the plastering did a brilliant job.
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Whoever did the plastering did a brilliant job.
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The consecration affects the entire building, but especially the walls; the removal, therefore, of the anointed crosses or even of the interior plastering (intonaco) of the walls, does not necessitate a new consecration (C.S.R.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Melinda, her reliable and religious baby-sitter, of the mousy brown hair and conservative clothing, now of the flower-like lily limbs and void of clothing of any kind, writhing religiously on their beige living-room couch like an octopus, being devoured by her shirtless husband, their faces lifting and meeting, mouths plastering and coming apart, gasps and moans inaudible above the high-powered shouting of the rock stars on the stereo.
For the Sake of the Boy
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The couple built the restaurant themselves, harvesting the logs for the vigas (ceiling beams) in the tribal forest in the mountains, plastering the interior walls with adobe and covering the outside with a thin layer of concrete.
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For a really smooth surface, use a plastering float.
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Rain was running down her hair, plastering it across her forehead.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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Among the demands made by the council are the painting of gable walls, plastering a brick chimney, and fixing loose slates.
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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.
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Where no keying mix or bonding agent is specified, wet smooth concrete surfaces immediately before plastering.
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At an exhibition in the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham earlier this year, she recreated Stroke by plastering the walls of one room with chocolate.
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Another problem faced by drivers was grit and dirt being thrown up from the roads and plastering windscreens and there were even reports of motorists queuing at garages to buy screenwash.
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The girls are expected to help their mothers in drawing water, hewing wood, and plastering houses.
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Johore, and also in the coffering of the ceilings in the drawing-room and some plastering in the rear block.
Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825
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The work in the first phase of refurbishment has fortunately not been confined to replastering the ornate ceiling and fiddling about with the organ.
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They were doing some renovation work in some rooms, and in one, a worker was plastering the ceiling.
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Western provinces have wooden chalets with steep, pointed roofs, like those in Switzerland, whereas the eastern Danubian houses exhibit more of a Slavic influence, with simple design and stucco plastering.
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Had you retained this lattice, the ceiling above would have required replastering, as the unsightly remedial works would have been visible through the grid.
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The rain drenched him instantly, plastering his hair to his head and soaking through his thin shirt and trousers.
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Martin is justifiably proud of the quality of the construction, thatching, painting and plastering of the rondavels.
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There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is possible, filth removes its shirt, absolute denudation puts to the rout all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end.
Les Miserables
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There will be part dry-dashing or re-plastering of front facades, fascias and soffits and new stone front walls.