Sentence examples for a thing of plastic from inspiring English sources

"He always recycled newspapers, and he had a thing of plastic that was handmade that would crush aluminum cans," Max said of his father.

Still, the technology is catching on and a small but growing number of companies are competing in a field that hopes to make passwords, PINs and plastic a thing of the past.

It is by coming together and using the combined power and expertise of everyone involved that we can make plastic pollution a thing of the past.

Even the power supply reduced elsewhere to a generic afterthought of black plastic is a thing of beauty, its white, smooth-sculpted edges concealing hidden notches that pop open to reveal functional parts.

Well, not quite — but HP is working on the next-best thing: a piece of plastic that would be as much cash as anything the U.S. Mint puts out.

While walking the course during her rounds, her mother carries a backpack that contains, among other things, a bag of plastic wind-up ladybug toys that she gives to young girls in Thompson's galleries.

Reality: This thing is a waste of plastic.

To check whether your seeds are still viable, sprinkle at least ten of them on a well-moistened paper towel and cover the whole thing with a bit of plastic wrap.

Appropriately, in the exhibition, surrounding the Citroën, is a display of plastic things: a 1950s film of sprightly and spiteful French wrestlers, washing-powder ads ("Ah, cette blancheur... Persil!" says one woman dressed in grey to a smug woman in pristine white), a column of Guide Bleu tourist books - each with an apposite Barthesian quote.

PS But there are many things made of plastic, and we don't know how to make them in any other way.

Besides the standard issues we had with the construction of the phone, we did spot another peculiar problem we hope is just a one-in-a-million fluke with the test device we were given: it physically broke… There is a small flap that covers the MicroUSB port, and while attempting to get the thing open, a thin piece of plastic which runs along the bottom of the casing just snapped.