plaster

Example Sentences

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The sandfly commonly shelters in cracks in poorly plastered mud houses, anthills and soil fissures, multiplying during the rainy season after prolonged drought.

From Barron's

I didn’t know it yet, but he and his mother had moved fourteen times over a period of ten years, and he had become expert at hanging pictures and spackling plaster.

From Literature

Through the exhibit, the building is allowed to show its skin: Walls are plastered but unpainted, and the basement is stuffed with bric-a-brac accumulated during its long, colorful history.

From Los Angeles Times

The rooms are small, with plaster ceilings sagging between wooden beams.

From Literature

She reaches into her bag and takes out a small plaster statue of a Black woman dressed in a long blue robe.

From Literature