papier mache

Example Sentences

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Penelope’s few possessions—including her broken tiara, her ruined princess costume, and her papier-mâché seashell—were already in her bag.

From Literature

Penelope held on to the papier-mâché seashell as long as she could.

From Literature

However, the papier-mâché seashell was carried by the wind quite a long way before landing—improbably, but not impossibly—in the scorching sands of the Sahara.

From Literature

Chicken gasped when he saw a papier-mâché hammerhead topping an arrangement of shark books.

From Literature

On another occasion, he “foraged,” as he put it, a herd of shopping carts, spray-painted them gold and filled them with ads for fake products and papier-mâché pills.

From New York Times