Sentence examples for advent of plastic from inspiring English sources

Communism and the advent of plastic bags stripped them of their livelihood.

There were pictures in the press of people wearing paint cans and buckets; but best of all were riders wearing hollowed-out watermelons and calabash bowls – rustic utensils made out of dried gourds that, before the advent of plastic, were ubiquitous as water vessels.

I honestly don't know how hunter-gatherer societies managed to stay fit before the advent of plastic buzzing pedometers.

Before the advent of "plastic", consumers were forced to queue at bureaux de change and high-street banks to get their hands on cash.

In fact, before the advent of plastic, tagua was a common material for shirt, blouse, and pant buttons, and some designers are returning to tagua buttons for the ecological and stylistic panache it provides.

Before the advent of plastic pants in the fifties "rubber pants" were the only style of waterproof pants available to cover baby diapers.

The advent of plastics also meant that toothbrushes could take any shape imaginable.

The 19th-century development that allowed for the nitration of cellulose fibres obtained from cotton linters may constitute the advent of plastics.

Before the advent of plastics, tortoiseshell from the hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) was used in eyeglass frames and decorative items.

With the advent of liposuction, plastic surgeons were afforded a valuable by-product, namely semiliquid fat, that could be implanted with relative ease using a needle or small cannula [ 12, 19, 22, 24, 27].

Sometimes, he wonders how the neighborhood got its shopping done before the advent of the red plastic bag.