Sentence examples for a plaster of from inspiring English sources

They also revived the lost art of making qudad, a plaster of lime and cinder historically used to waterproof Yemeni buildings.

So many wedding cakes are more like sculpture than pastry: dry layers mortared with dull fillings, a plaster of sugary icing and a price worthy of a Chelsea gallery.

Soaked with rain, the tornado whipped up a porridge of mud that splattered everything that stood in its path and that has since left a plaster of clay on everything, outside and inside homes.

"Stop the car!" I demanded: if I couldn't afford to build a house on my plot, couldn't I at least mark my territory with a plaster of Paris saint?

The church, built of brick and adobe with a plaster of sand, lime and prickly pear juice, is 98 feet long on the inside but only 21 feet wide.

A light rash had bloomed across his chest, and in the very early hours of the morning Mrs. Kirkenbauer had suggested a plaster of bread and milk, or running to a neighbor for linseed oil, but Mary had said no, she'd seen the rash before, there was nothing for it but rest and trying to get the boy to eat something.

Later a plaster-of-Paris-like substance is solemnly poured into a human outline.

"It shows that she wasn't a plaster-of-paris saint who never had a doubt about God or the ultimate meaning of life," he said.

I sent a copy to the Colored People, with a suggestion that, for their next publicity stunt/fundraiser, they build a plaster-of-Paris model of the Jefferson Memorial and blow it up with firecrackers on the Fourth of July.

The largest is, somewhat unexpectedly, a polystyrene wig block, the middle one a plaster-of-Paris cast made for a special effect in a film, and the smallest a model of a baby's head made by Williams's grandmother.

Starting out by waving a large scorecard-figure zero ("how many weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq") and a graph with a tiny yellow bar (for "the truth") and a large blue bar ("what you say"), the Californian senator graduated to pouring vinegar ("your lies") and baking soda ("our current situation in Iraq") into a plaster-of-paris volcano ("the rising tension in the Middle East").