plaster of Paris
Example Sentences
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The 292 replica bones and ribs which make up the skeleton, made from plaster of Paris, are being packed into 28 crates by staff at the Natural History Museum.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2023
"Looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand."
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2022
Beal’s castle was a hallucinatory, improbable cascade of car bumpers, endless Busch beer cans, plaster of Paris archways embedded with abalone shells and dolls, rusted car wheels and driftwood.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019
She slathered the walls, the doors and the sooty fireplace with plaster of Paris, then reassembled the dozens of resultant panels — facing out, not in — into a hulking box.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2018
He uses both rolls, then tells me to relax my leg and begins massaging the plaster of Paris around.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
