Sentence examples for like plaster from inspiring English sources

Modern running shoes, McDougall writes, are sort of like plaster casts, inhibiting free movement, and pushing us into all sorts of bad habits, like landing entirely on those well-cushioned heels.

The next challenge with turducken is to make a stuffing that doesn't taste and feel like plaster.

"I've been painting this wall for 16 years," he notes, to the extent that the layers have become "like plaster". He likes the freedom that comes with his job.

We wanted to make something lightweight to keep your beard manageable that doesn't feel like plaster on your face.

Entomological studies show the mud mortar to be contaminated with tiny insects like plaster beetles and bugs.

It's so delicious, it's so beautiful — it's the whitest of the dairies, it's like plaster of Paris".

In each one are life-like plaster figures and trompe l'oeil furnishings, depicting an episode in the life of Jesus.

Densely covered with lines of black Greek characters, they had been extracted from a piece of desiccated cartonnage, a papier-mâché-like plaster that the Egyptians and Greeks used for everything from mummy cases to bookbindings.

The poster that the Kony 2012 campaign would like to plaster around the country, and has included in a $30 action kit, juxtaposes Joseph Kony, Osama Bin Laden, and Adolf Hitler.

Like plasters, alcohol, Savlon and cigarettes, it is one of those emergency supplies that every household needs ready access to.

"Playing them when they were at the top of their game," said McLintock vividly, "was like plastering your face in marmalade then kicking over a wasps' nest". Shankly's team battered City and after Stringfellow's counterattacking 18th-minute goal the wave of Liverpool attacks became relentless.