Sentence examples for plaster held from inspiring English sources

I went upstairs to the wig salon, where I was expected at 10. Whipped-cream peaks of plaster held years of gritty dust on the walls.

"Broken Sculpture With Reclining Sock," another McCarthy work, features a sock resting, like a slightly burnt offering, on a T-shape of smooth blue-tinted plaster held up by four hairpin iron legs.

The artist is in the center of the space hovering over a framed mound of white plaster held up by four buckets.

He also refuses to allow construction of  straw bale house designs in which  straw and plaster hold up the roof with no wooden structure — known as load-bearing straw bale.

Lavish amounts of well-informed speculation, applied like plaster, hold together the bits she can actually document, but the result is a narrative that could have come straight from Trollope.

Plaster holding foot in over corrected position".

Using a dry-fresco technique, he paints sepia-toned scenes of Albanian weddings (taken from videos) on large, rough plaster walls held upright by thick wood beams.

At some point he seems to have unceremoniously stuck it in a lump of wet plaster to hold it upright.

I have obtained this direct transmission of the force to the skeleton, by means of a large nail being passed through the back part of the heel; a nail, which by means of two lateral ferrules, fixed in the plaster apparatus, is held in the desired position.

It's no good having a sticking plaster solution as the plaster is not holding".

Ancient Egyptian mummies were often covered with an outer casing, panels and masks made from cartonnage: a lightweight material made from linen, plaster, and recycled papyrus held together with adhesive.