How to Use plaster over in a Sentence

plaster over

verb
  • The department is a ghost town now, tape plastered over the entrance.
    Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Dudes gifted enough and clever enough to plaster over the cracks left by Sanders’ coaching staff.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Some lingered there for a while to take down any advertisements that were plastered over it.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Yellow strokes of plaster over a wall, speckled green vines, a sun splitting into pieces between twenty feet of waving bamboo.
    Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
  • At the end of the day, neither of these women suspected their words would be plastered over the internet for public consumption.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This would provide certainty to the players and the fans and show intent and ambition, rather than another period of flux and a plaster over the wound.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Victory in the 2024 FA Cup final plastered over a damaging eighth-place league finish — their lowest in the Premier League at that stage — before defeat in the 2025 Europa League final pushed 2024-25 into further ignominy, having finished 15th.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026

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