plaster of Paris
Example Sentences
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Heritage noticed some residue in the grooves — plaster of Paris, a clue that they had been used in a stereotype printing process developed in the 1830s.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022
"Looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand."
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2022
Beal’s castle was a hallucinatory, improbable cascade of car bumpers, endless Busch beer cans, plaster of Paris archways embedded with abalone shells and dolls, rusted car wheels and driftwood.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019
Hoyos: In biology, we have to buy plaster of Paris for experiments, to make models.
From Slate • May 2, 2018
He uses both rolls, then tells me to relax my leg and begins massaging the plaster of Paris around.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
