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Example sentences for "plaster"

Lexicographically close words:
plasmic; plasmodia; plasmodium; plasmon; plasms; plastered; plasterer; plasterers; plastering; plasters
  1. To lath and plaster the side walls of 1st and 2nd stories with two coats & set in white.

  2. To lath and plaster the Ceiling of the Cellar Story throughout.

  3. To plaster the interior walls which separate the Octagon Room in both Stories, to be finished white, or as General Hamilton may chose.

  4. To lath and plaster all the other partitions in both stories.

  5. Fragments of statues let their plaster crumble in the grass.

  6. The houses were riddled with projectiles, and their framework could be seen under the plaster that was peeled off.

  7. The plaster of the roof, coming through the broken and disjointed tiles, showed the extreme neglect of the inhabitant of this abode.

  8. This magnificent bronze, recently cast after a plaster copy from the antique, represented the triumph of the Indian Bacchus.

  9. Raising her eyes, hastily, she saw some particles of the plaster fall from the ceiling, loosened, no doubt, by the shaking of the floor above.

  10. Several working stone-cutters sent an architectural model in plaster to the last exhibition.

  11. In some cases the plaster is left permanently under the leather to form the padding.

  12. A thoroughly wetted piece of thin leather is placed between these two casts and well pressed, the amalgam enabling the plaster to bear the pressure.

  13. There is also a method of stamping leather by means of two plaster casts prepared with stearine, both bearing the same design, one in relief and the other hollowed.

  14. If she has not taken calomel to such an extent as to affect the system, it may now be given for that purpose; and when the pain has ceased, the part may be covered with a plaster of camphorated mercurial ointment.

  15. Straps of adhesive plaster are seldom or never of any use, but if the rent be very severe a suture or two may be required.

  16. But the general method of increasing the resistance of the floor to fire is by covering the floor and beams on the under side with plaster laid on wire-lathing.

  17. Broad flakes of plaster from the walls lay littered about in the passages.

  18. Maybe you would like a bit o' plaster to bind up the cut?

  19. He hacked at it for a time well enough, then lay down on the floor of the room and threw his hatchet at such areas of the plaster as were not in easy reach.

  20. Her parlor may become a drawing-room, or two, or more, but she does not grow to care that a public school-room is decorated in white plaster trimmed with a broad strip of blackboard.

  21. There was the doctor to pay, and all that plaster cast thing, and of course I had to do the milking and all the work.

  22. This was a habit which many young men dropped into of attempting to put pieces of sticking-plaster over the mouths of unsuspicious passengers on the streets.

  23. A servant girl was attacked in the street, and a sticking-plaster of so strong an adhesive nature was placed over her mouth that it could not be removed without taking a great portion of the skin of her face with it.

  24. Then she began to push all along the sides where the plaster seemed loose.

  25. The plaster seems to be loose around these in the middle.

  26. Go fetch me some court-plaster out of the middle drawer in the japan cabinet.

  27. But the fighting grew more and more serious, till the stock of sticking-plaster could not stand it.

  28. They will take every advantage of the rank cowardice of the clodhopper, and the terror of all those pitch-plaster tales.

  29. At the creek he washed the blood from his face and hands, changed his shirt, put a strip of plaster on his cut lip, and decided that any further repairs could wait until he reached Paloma.

  30. Buck's lips straightened grimly, with a grotesque twisted effect caused by the plaster at the corner.

  31. Plaster as used in Persian architecture and decorative art.

  32. A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices.

  33. It will be necessary, from time to time, to renew the plaster until the cure be effected.

  34. And as for woman's hair, don't plaster it with scented and sour grease, or with any grease; it has an oil of its own.

  35. One of the best applications is a Burgundy-pitch plaster spread on a soft piece of wash leather.

  36. Corns are like the little worries of life--very teazing and troublesome a good remedy for a corn--which the Galbanum Plaster undoubtedly is-is therefore worth knowing.

  37. Johnny Dear" was originally a small plaster phrenological cast of a head and bust, begged from some shop window in the county town, with a body clearly constructed by Mary herself.

  38. Mix the plaster of paris with water, and stir continuously until it becomes incapable of setting.

  39. The composition used for coating copperplate transfer paper must possess a somewhat heavy body, and for this reason plaster of paris enters into its composition, which is as follows:-- Plaster of paris 2 lb.

  40. The following may be substituted for the above:-- Plaster of paris 2 lb.

  41. Add the other ingredients, already mixed, and see that they become thoroughly incorporated with the plaster of paris, after which coat the paper twice with the mixture.

  42. We went to the door, and the wind burst it open so that the handle was driven clean into the plaster of the wall.

  43. Then it occurred to me that the plaster might smash me all over, and my impressions of Farringdon Meat Market added a gruesome vividness to my conception of the consequences.

  44. The church is an ugly little building with a plaster ceiling and a chancel out of centre with the rest of the structure.

  45. Hard by is Fitzhead Court, an ancient manor house said to contain a good plaster ceiling.

  46. On the road to Blue Anchor there is an ancient manor-house, called Marshwood Farm, which has in its porch some curious plaster figures.

  47. Of these two rooms the one has a good oak roof, and the other a curious plaster cornice.

  48. In the parish is an old manor house called Gaulden Farm, with a large hall decorated with a fine plaster ceiling, with pendant and cornice, but inspection of it is not easily obtained.

  49. The nave is lofty, with clerestory and plaster roof (coloured like oak); the effigy at the W.

  50. As commonly built it is safer to plaster them within and without, especially without, for that can be inspected.

  51. If you wish to warm the entire house, it will be good economy to lath and plaster along the under side of the rafters quite to the ridgepole.

  52. Am I to understand that you do not approve of lath and plaster for walls and ceilings of first-class dwellings?

  53. Diamonds and pearls are commonly thought ornamental to those who can afford them; from pink plaster images and china vases to bronze dragons and Florentine mosaics, there is an endless variety of ornaments for domestic apartments.

  54. No; you are not to understand that lath and plaster are unfit for first-class dwellings, but there is no sense in trimming a gingham suit with point lace.

  55. There are two quarries of excellent Plaster of Paris on the river Kennebeckasis.

  56. After some days' labour we came to the floor, where we discovered the stone seats, and on the plaster of the wall the greasy marks of the heads and shoulders of persons who had sat there many centuries ago.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adherent; adhesive; application; band; bandage; barnacle; bathe; bedaub; binder; brace; bramble; briar; brier; bulldog; burr; butter; cast; cement; compress; concrete; cotton; crush; cure; daub; diagnose; doctor; drag; dress; dressing; dub; equalize; even; flatten; flux; fuddle; gauze; glue; grade; grease; harrow; heal; lay; leech; level; limpet; lint; lubricate; mash; massage; molasses; mortar; mucilage; mush; nurse; oil; overtake; paste; pickle; pith; plane; plaster; pledget; pollute; porridge; poultice; prickle; pudding; pulp; purge; remedy; roller; rub; sauce; sham; shave; sling; smash; smear; smooth; smudge; souse; splash; splint; sponge; spread; squash; stew; sticker; stone; strap; syrup; tampon; tape; tent; thorn; tourniquet; treat