plaster of Paris

Example Sentences

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A team from Aberdeen University was despatched to document the scene, stopping to pick up supplies like plaster of Paris from craft shops on the way, before the site was destroyed by the weather forever.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

"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

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