plaster of Paris

Example Sentences

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They had followed the trail from Hardacre to Neal, who thought he'd replaced some of the costly sugar in the sweets with plaster of Paris.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2023

Heritage noticed some residue in the grooves — plaster of Paris, a clue that they had been used in a stereotype printing process developed in the 1830s.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022

"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

MoMo removed his custom Elvis-with-sideburns hairpiece and placed it carefully on the plaster of Paris wig form made to look just like MoMo, complete with long, fat mustache and oversize sunglasses.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray