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Get to know Plaster better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like cover or poultice. In Dutch this translates to stuken.

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Plaster in a sentence

Plaster meaning

  1. A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
  2. A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
  3. A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.

Synonyms of Plaster

cover poultice surface stick on adhesive plaster plasterwork medical dressing dressing cataplasm calcium sulfate calcium sulphate plaster of paris covering material mixture sticking plaster

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Using Plaster

  • The main meaning on this page is: A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes. | A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster. | A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
  • Useful related words include: cover, poultice, surface, stick on.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: stuken.
  • In the example corpus, plaster often appears in combinations such as: and plaster, the plaster, of plaster.

Context around Plaster

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 11 start, 4 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Plaster

  • In this selection, "plaster" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, wet, sticking, main, casting, dries and mold stand out and add context to how "plaster" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include in the plaster and the wet plaster after a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "plaster" sits close to words such as adored, afterlife and approves, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with plaster

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

It was a distraction as the walls shook and plaster fell on us. (13 words)

My leg was in plaster for months and I suffered significant pain and inconvenience! (14 words)

The plaster cast of David at the Victoria and Albert Museum has a detachable plaster fig leaf which is displayed nearby. (21 words)

Bronze casts made in 1990 from plaster death mask and plaster casts of his hands clearly show a normal right hand and a withered left hand. citation He could be charming and polite, mainly towards visiting statesmen. (37 words)

A chunk of plaster in the ceiling of the living room of an independent house in Uttan collapsed, claiming the life of a 46-year-old woman and leaving four members of her family on Friday. (36 words)

Pointing to a plaster-of-Paris relief he created with a craftsman friend, Fernandes says, тАЬThat is DewarтАЩs Bar, possibly the first sit-down bar in Bangalore set up for the British officers in those days. (36 words)

My leg was in plaster for months and I suffered significant pain and inconvenience! (14 words)

Example sentences (20)

Plaster mold casting main Plaster casting is similar to sand casting except that plaster of paris is substituted for sand as a mold material.

The pigment is absorbed by the wet plaster; after a number of hours, the plaster dries in reaction to air: it is this chemical reaction which fixes the pigment particles in the plaster.

The pigment is then absorbed by the wet plaster; after a number of hours, the plaster dries and reacts with the air: it is this chemical reaction which fixes the pigment particles in the plaster.

The furniture has the look of plaster, which people like, but plaster isn’t practical for furniture so it’s structured in plasterglass, which gives it strength and durability, explained Pucci.

The underlying material of plaster is naturally occurring limestone and gypsum, so a plaster wall finish is, quite literally, a coating of earth for your walls.

Bronze casts made in 1990 from plaster death mask and plaster casts of his hands clearly show a normal right hand and a withered left hand. citation He could be charming and polite, mainly towards visiting statesmen.

Harle, 355–361 The paintings are in "dry fresco ", painted on top of a dry plaster surface rather than into wet plaster.

It was originally covered with Marrakshi pink plaster, but in the 1990s experts opted to remove the plaster to expose the original stone work.

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Plaster casting is an inexpensive alternative to other molding processes for complex parts due to the low cost of the plaster and its ability to produce near net shape castings.

Roman frescoes were done by the artist painting the artwork on the still damp plaster of the wall, so that the painting is part of the wall, actually colored plaster.

The plaster cast of David at the Victoria and Albert Museum has a detachable plaster fig leaf which is displayed nearby.

Waste molding of plaster A durable plaster intermediate is often used as a stage toward the production of a bronze sculpture or as a pointing guide for the creation of a carved stone.

A chunk of plaster in the ceiling of the living room of an independent house in Uttan collapsed, claiming the life of a 46-year-old woman and leaving four members of her family on Friday.

Another charge against the Tories is that, in the words of Gareth Davies, the supposedly neutral head of the National Audit Office, they have adopted a ‘sticking-plaster approach’ to essential maintenance.

At a property in Dent Street, two men who are thought to be Vietnamese nationals were found hiding, one of whom was discovered taking cover behind a plaster board wall.

It was a distraction as the walls shook and plaster fell on us.

My leg was in plaster for months and I suffered significant pain and inconvenience!

Pointing to a plaster-of-Paris relief he created with a craftsman friend, Fernandes says, тАЬThat is DewarтАЩs Bar, possibly the first sit-down bar in Bangalore set up for the British officers in those days.

Raising the value of would have been preferable to sending lump sum payments to households, according to a leading UK economics thinktank which has dubbed the sporadic cash boost an “ineffective sticking plaster”.

Rodin, who later became famous for his ‘Thinker’ sculpture, was allowed by French law to manufacture different versions of ‘Le Bourgeois’ in plaster and bronze.

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Common combinations with plaster

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "plaster" in a sentence?
An example: "Plaster mold casting main Plaster casting is similar to sand casting except that plaster of paris is substituted for sand as a mold material." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "plaster" from authentic English texts.
What does "plaster" mean?
Plaster means: A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
What are synonyms of "plaster"?
Common synonyms of "plaster" include: cover, poultice, surface, stick on, adhesive plaster, plasterwork, medical dressing, dressing. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "plaster" in Dutch?
"plaster" translates to Dutch as: stuken.
How many example sentences with "plaster" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "plaster", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.