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- noun Plural form of
plaster . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
plaster .
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Examples
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Then a shot of Lennie typing at a laptop, another shot of Sam sewing, this time trying to sew with one hand, since the other is covered in plasters, then a shot of Lennie looking up at the old tree house in Sam’s back garden, then back to Sam sewing, this time telepathically since both hands are covered in plasters.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Tom’s Review Forum 2009
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Then a shot of George trying to shoot fire, another shot of Sam sewing, this time trying to sew with one hand, since the other is covered in plasters, then a shot of Lennie looking up at the old tree house in Sam’s back garden, then back to Sam sewing, this time telepathically since both hands are covered in plasters.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Tom’s Review Forum 2009
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Then a shot of Lennie typing at a laptop, another shot of Sam sewing, this time trying to sew with one hand, since the other is covered in plasters, then a shot of Lennie looking up at the old tree house in Sam’s back garden, then back to Sam sewing, this time telepathically since both hands are covered in plasters.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Tom’s Review Forum 2009
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Through 21st century technology and the vision of Director Ed Moy, original Saint-Gaudens coin plasters were digitally mapped by the United States Mint.
Psychohistory 2008
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It renders all applications, such as plasters, totally unnecessary, as well as the repeated dressings to which recourse is usually had in such cases; and it at once removes the soreness necessarily attendant on an ulcerated surface being exposed to the open air.
An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers John Higginbottom
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Matrimony, even as in bodily medicines, some are applied externally, such as plasters and drugs, while others are acts of the person who seeks to be cured, such as certain exercises.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Think Tom Stoppard's Jumpers meets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and you have a taste of this smart-arse evening, in which Davalos doesn't just wear his learning on his sleeve but plasters it all over the stage.
Wittenberg – review 2011
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Hours of Crimes solved over corn plasters and Thermoses of milky tea.
Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die 2011
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Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters?
To the Boy Who Raped Me Kait Mauro 2010
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As the election draws closer, Mr Brown and his cohorts will be looking at what they did wrong all these years and trying to put sticking plasters over the gaping wounds caused by their actions.
National Victim Agency – Deckchairs, Titanic. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
brtom commented on the word plasters
“I’ve that within—for which there are no plasters!"
Goldsmith, She Stoops, Prologue
January 8, 2007