lath

Example Sentences

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My own report from Dexter was a horror show: massive, insulation-free gaps between interior and exterior walls, revealing chunks of stone and lath that had last seen daylight when James Madison was president.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Inspections were launched after a ceiling - made out of lath and plaster - partly collapsed at a Synergy Education Trust academy.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2024

Lee points out a nest of bees that thrum inside the wall near the broad main staircase, the hive built amid the exposed lath.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2021

The inspector trained his infrared lens onto a misshapen bow in the ceiling, an invisible beam of light searching the layers of lath to test what the eye could not see.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2020

They emerged through another wall, but this one was lath and plaster on the far side.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin