Sentence examples for plastered down from inspiring English sources

The hair, plastered down before, is now dry and soft, perfectly straight and downy and golden.

As Theo, Byron Jennings, his hair plastered down, his body constrained in a snug three-piece suit, makes some delicious expostulations.

I'd never seen him anywhere other than the bank, so it was a surprise when I caught sight of him one evening coming out of the water, white and strangely angular, in a pair of pale-blue shorts and a T-shirt, his hair plastered down over his forehead, his arms and chest glistening.

"Mort," on the other hand, "was the sudden tolling of bells, deep mourning, the whole village scuttling up the hill to the church and the young men carrying the coffin on their shoulders, their hair plastered down with brillantina, their spotless Sunday clothes the pride of their mothers or wives".

The hair on the top, meanwhile, had gone completely and in its place was a polished bald pate so shiny it was clear that the same product that went towards keeping his remaining hair plastered down was also used to add a little luster on top.

Plastered down the sports front page were Jonathan Papelbon in a triumphant crouch, an exultant Randy Moss after another connection with Brady and an open-mouthed, wide-eyed and not-wanting-to-be-pinched Kevin Garnett.

Max Gill as Fat Sam, with plastered-down hair and two-tone shoes, showed a natural ebullience and ease on stage.

Kingsley, who threatened more with one scene of "Sexy Beast" than he does in the whole of "Oliver Twist," drifts slightly to the margins, as does Oliver himself, who arrives at happiness, with plastered-down hair, like an exhausted ghost.

One reason that Ms. Durst -- with plastered-down hair, a stylized self-choreography and a sadly servile manner that somehow expresses a relish of kink -- is the most convincing and darkly hilarious presence on the stage is that she says not a word from beginning to end.

(When Hamlet gives his advice to the traveling players about not sawing the air with their hands or tearing passions to tatters, you want to say, "Actor, direct thyself!") His transition from mere sullenness to feigned madness is signaled by a change in coiffure, from plastered-down nerd hair to unruly locks.

The strips have more plaster on one side than the other; lay them on the subject with the side with less plaster face down.