PLASTERED in a Sentence

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70 example sentences for PLASTERED, such as:

1. He's got his leg in a plaster cast.
2. Patience is the plaster of all sores.
3. His broken leg was encased in plaster.
4. She applied the plaster on his shoulder.
5. He mixed up some plaster to repair the wall.

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plastered
 a.  very drunk; covered with a coat of plaster; made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  He was hatless and his black hair was plastered to his little skull.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  Men with highly plastered hair, so painfully shaved that their faces looked sore, removed their coats, sighed, and unbuttoned two buttons of their uncreased Sunday vests.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  It was dug out under the wing of the house, was plastered and cemented, with a stairway and an outside door by which the men came and went.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
4  Now everything was plastered with mortgages.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
5  The house inside contained four rooms, plastered white; the basement was but a frame, the walls being unplastered and the floor not laid.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  The store-keepers plastered up their windows with all sorts of lies to entice you; the very fences by the wayside, the lampposts and telegraph poles, were pasted over with lies.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  The banks of "Bubbly Creek" are plastered thick with hairs, and this also the packers gather and clean.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  Here the boys emerged from under the table, and, with hands and faces well plastered with molasses, began a vigorous kissing of the baby.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  The angry eldest princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll's, had come into Pierre's room after the funeral.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
10  The immense house on the old stone foundations was of wood, plastered only inside.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VIII
11  The walls of all the rooms was plastered, and most had carpets on the floors, and the whole house was whitewashed on the outside.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
12  Her sharp breasts rose and fell, her hair was plastered down with rain, her face was flushed ruddy and her body glistened and trickled.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
13  In front of the first rank, along the river, three men, plastered with bright red earth from head to foot, strutted to and fro restlessly.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
14  His eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
15  It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence:
1  She plastered herself from head to toe in high factor sun lotion.
2  His hair was plastered down to his scalp by the rain.
3  The cracks in the ceiling have to be plastered over before you can start painting.
4  There are very few directors who get their name plastered all over the marketing materials for their films.
5  She broke her leg a month ago and it's still in plaster.
6  Patience is the plaster of all sores.
7  He mixed up some plaster to repair the wall.
8  Before painting, fill all the cracks in the plaster.
9  There were huge cracks in the plaster, and the green shutters were faded.
10  His broken leg was encased in plaster.
11  He's got his leg in a plaster cast.
12  The plaster on the walls has been removed to expose the original bricks underneath.
13  She applied the plaster on his shoulder.
14  The plaster is mostly removed now and we get to see the paintings in their full glory.