plaster

While there is hope that Rutte's tactics will pay off again in Ankara -- among some there is a sense that it's just a sticking plaster solution.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Inspired by her family’s produce, she cast real corn, strawberries and cherries in plaster, then made a silicone mold to create copies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Or did his men just plaster up some notices containing the decree across the city, roughly as utility workers warn locals about downed power lines?

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

Houdon’s Franklin bust exists in several autograph versions, including the marbles at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and two plaster versions in European collections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The baby, Elora Greer, could crack plaster with her scream, it was true.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

In the plasters, his details are sharper, his jagged surfaces dangerous, his faces more emotive.

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

All of the commonly used sanitary equipment such as paper, cotton, surgical masks, and commercial plasters exhibited intrinsic multi-pathway antibacterial activity with rapid responses against a broad spectrum of microbial species.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

Housewives of a provident turn of mind filled their cupboards with treacle as a medicine for bad air, and with home-made plasters called Flos Unguentorum for the rheumatics and musk- balls to smell.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

They stood near the common room, wide smiles plastered on their faces as they watched him collect his belongings, he recalled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Her anguish is shared outside morgues as well as in hospitals, where photos of missing persons are plastered on walls and utility poles, written on handwritten pieces of paper.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Sifting through the evidence, jurors put together a timeline on a whiteboard and plastered the walls with sheets of paper covered in notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

A seventh-generation Roman, Francesco Totti dreamed of sporting the same carmine red and gold as the heroes plastered across his childhood bedroom wall.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

I plastered on a smile pretty as a string of pearls.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

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

"I have a croft house I am trying to do up, so I might do some plastering."

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025

“We’re going to start plastering, so don’t move or talk. We don’t want it to crack.”

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina