Sentence examples for plaster from inspiring English sources
The word 'plaster' is correct and can be used in written English
It can be used as both a noun and a verb. Example sentence: We used a plaster to cover the hole in the wall.
noun
A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
The house was owned by a housing association called Patchwork, who would peel off years' worth of wallpaper (six layers, hanging off the walls) and patch up the damp plaster beneath.
Ideally, aim for a pancake the size of a dinner plate with, at its centre, the thickness of a Compeed bunion plaster.
Dip it in bleach, plaster it in make-up and times it by two.
By enabling us to consume conspicuously and by introducing café culture to the birthplace of the industrial revolution, it seemed for a while that things could only get better, but of course this proved to be a mere sticking plaster, simply delaying the crisis that loomed on the horizon.
I used to wear this purple trouser-suit … and there's one photograph of me, on a hospital bed with my legs covered in plaster, and I'm wearing a red-and-white poncho.
Tobacco firms tend to plaster their own electronic products with terrifying health warnings that, some observers suspect, are an attempt cynically to play up fears of vaping's potential harm and put switchers off.
For now, the prospect of a general-election victory has plaster-casted the most painful Tory fractures.
European leaders have moved from an initial stance of denial about the seriousness of the region's debt problems through a series of sticking-plaster solutions as the rot spread.
A unity agreement signed after the election is a sticking-plaster over a wound that still festers.
Sticking-plaster for Mercosur Still breathing Let us be your frontier post A new face to the fore Reprints Related items Colombia's conflicts: Enemies of the state, without and withinOct 4th 2001 A survey of Colombia: Drugs, war and democracyApr 19th 2001The guerrillas are no fools politically.
Reprints Related items Argentina's economy: Time to end the agonyNov 1st 2001 Economics focus: Dollar mad?Oct 25th 2001 South American trade: Sticking-plaster for MercosurOct 11th 2001Exporters complain that the peg to a strong dollar means that they cannot compete in their main markets, such as Brazil whose currency has devalued by 28% this year.
