plaster of Paris
Example Sentences
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"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
Hoyos: In biology, we have to buy plaster of Paris for experiments, to make models.
From Slate • May 2, 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
