plaster of Paris
Example Sentences
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"Looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand."
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2022
"It was so cold the plaster of Paris wouldn't set at first. Luckily we got a few dry days and the protective jackets went on."
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 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
MoMo removed his custom Elvis-with-sideburns hairpiece and placed it carefully on the plaster of Paris wig form made to look just like MoMo, complete with long, fat mustache and oversize sunglasses.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
