Sentence examples for put a plaster from inspiring English sources

Put a plaster on his nose and it could have been Robbie Fowler 10 years ago.

Eventually, they put a plaster cast on but I still played at school.

In research they are planning to publish later this year, academics Heather Piper, John Powell and Hannah Smith describe how some child carers are reluctant even to put a plaster on a child's scraped knee.

Given recent U-turns on promises made by the Leave campaign, their commitment to maintain EU science funding until 2020 is akin to offering to put a plaster on an amputated leg.

In interviews with Romanian newspapers, the General has disclosed that he faked a wound to get out of duty against the demonstrators in December, ordering a military hospital to put a plaster cast on his leg as though it had been injured.

Most recently Cole put a plaster cast bust of her torso on the auction site eBay to raise money for British telethon charity Comic Relief.

"However, this move is akin to putting a plaster on the wall of a dam that is about to burst".

The move has been described by obesity researcher Zoe Harcombe as "useful as putting a plaster on a severed artery".

First he puts a plaster cast on a pig's leg and then gets in a huff when it doesn't show him the correct amount of gratitude.

The collective failure to re-imagine another pathway results in focusing our intellectual power on trying to prop up the existing system, even though this is akin to putting a plaster on a gaping wound.

But in the face of the slow-moving juggernaut of global warming, it's difficult not to regard these measures, worthy as they are, as akin to putting a plaster on a gunshot wound.