plaster
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Using about $500 of his savings, he paid two guys to plaster the city with more than 300 fliers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Above them huge cranes move with precision to build rooftops, while men balance on ladders to plaster brickwork.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Telltale signs of water damage include discolored wall panels, black mold, cracking plaster or peeling paint, just to name a few.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Maryville coach chose “spoofhounds” after the ugly, plaster of Paris dog from a recent carnival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
I didn’t know it yet, but he and his mother had moved fourteen times over a period of ten years, and he had become expert at hanging pictures and spackling plaster.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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During the renovation, a slip of paper containing the names of architects and plasters responsible for building the theatre was discovered in a glass bottle hidden behind a crown decoration.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
And compared with the bronzes, the plasters are especially sensitive, fragile—you’re drawn to protect them, but any touch seems like it would be too much for these waifish bodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Even North Korea, which plasters pictures of leader Kim Jong Un across the country and demands reverence, does not feature him in the passport, which instead depicts sacred Mount Paektu.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
He plasters them across the city in hopes of bringing ‘little expressions of joy’ to Angelenos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
The shampoos and lotions and balms that used to be at the back of the store I shift to shelves near the pharmacy, so that people filling prescriptions can also buy plasters and ointments.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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There's a large print-out of Helen Haines plastered onto the window of her office - anyone delivering flowers for her gets a big smile back as they look up and walk away.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
About the theory that she would only be engaging with these people if she were plastered?
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Antonella Nistorescu displayed horrific video images of the crash with the word “preventable” plastered across the screen in red letters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The pictures plastered outside the truck made Montgomery feel like she was in an episode of “The Twilight Zone.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
There’s a creature a layin’ down there, but I’m blowed if it’s fish or fowl, there’s so much mud and dust plastered on it,” whispered the hedgehog.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Since early Thursday, BNP backers started gathering in the capital, plastering the streets with banners and festoons bearing images of Rahman.
From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025
The British Dental Association Cymru acknowledged "some important wins" but said "plastering over a few of the biggest cracks is just superficial repairs" and the true cost of care was not reflected.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
Clinging to the chassis of an airplane with the wind plastering his hair to his forehead and oscillating his gums like bulldog in a convertible, he is, in fact, exceedingly flapped.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
To say an animal is experiencing a certain feeling is not plastering a human emotion on an inhuman thing.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025
The crowd constricted around the truck, plastering Fadi and Mariam against the back tire.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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