plastic
Example Sentences
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As Heifets interviewed patients following their surgeries—participants had undergone a range of procedures, from gynecological to plastic to spinal operations—he was moved by the stories they told him.
From Slate
A refugee from the Sino-Japanese War who fled mainland China to Hong Kong, he started a business in 1950 manufacturing plastic flowers and named it Cheung Kong after China's Yangtze River.
From Barron's
Eat Sleep Knit, a yarn store in Dallas, Georgia, posted a photo on Tuesday of plastic tubs overflowing with skeins of scarlet and crimson and magenta—all from orders it had received over the past few days.
From Slate
“It was a combination of that stress lifting, and even more, just the incredible pride in the company, and in every single person in this room, to pull this off,” Jordan told a crowd of Southwest employees that day, many holding plastic cups of sparkling apple cider.
When the airline shed its plastic boarding passes, or its row-facing-row lounge seating, there were minor outcries, Jordan said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
