plaster of Paris
Example Sentences
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They had followed the trail from Hardacre to Neal, who thought he'd replaced some of the costly sugar in the sweets with plaster of Paris.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2023
"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
She slathered the walls, the doors and the sooty fireplace with plaster of Paris, then reassembled the dozens of resultant panels — facing out, not in — into a hulking box.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2018
A model of the bell, as if it were solid, was first made of clay and plaster of Paris.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
