How to Use plaster cast in a Sentence

plaster cast

noun
  • The mask was made from a plaster cast of his face.
  • She had a plaster cast on her leg.
  • Researchers have tried in the past to make plaster casts of the long, shallow forms and failed.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Ditto picking up her ashes and the plaster cast of her paw print.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Attached to the plaque, the white plaster cast of a startlingly tiny foot.
    — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2021
  • One crew applies a plaster cast to a bone from a pterosaur, a flying reptile, a rare find.
    — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
  • His legs were broken, straightened, then reset in plaster casts.
    — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Some trackers like to make plaster casts of tracks out of Plaster of Paris.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The next day the alginate is cut away with knives to reveal the plaster cast which is now a solid form.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Coulier began by making a plaster cast of Slater’s face.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Nov. 2025
  • In a key study, researchers developed a model from a plaster cast of a macaque vocal tract.
    — Louis-Jean Boë, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The next steps, once the head is completed, will be to make a rubber mold off it and create a plaster cast from that mold.
    — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2021
  • The stunning, complete plaster cast of one of the villa's horses is the first of its kind from Pompeii.
    — National Geographic, 24 May 2018
  • There’s Johnson, who cracks his arm out of a plaster cast by flexing his biceps — before yanking a drone from midair.
    — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
  • For his bag design, the botanical artist created a plaster cast by imprinting soil with plants and wire mesh.
    — Joelle Diderich, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
  • In order to preserve the size and shape of each bone, plaster casts and photos captured the full physical details.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Inside was a selection of her work to date, including a plaster cast of her hand and an Ikea mug with her name written on it.
    — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Ever wonder what a contemporary version of a Roman plaster cast gallery might look like?
    — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Outdoor activities range from growing plants in a bucket to making a plaster cast of animal tracks.
    — oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2020
  • In addition to the plaster cast, Kim had digital scans done of her body that were really what served as the basis for the bottle.
    — Sophia Panych, Allure, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Elsewhere, this same motif is re-created from plaster casts of marine rope alternating with teak inserts.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 16 June 2026
  • Sullivan took plaster casts of patients’ noses, creating a fibreglass mask that tubing could be attached to.
    — Neil Steinberg, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2019
  • The show incorporated a plaster cast of each contestant’s torso.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • To craft the prosthetic head that appears in the film, Washington had to do a plaster cast and a 360-degree scan of his head.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Bulldozer operator Jerry Crew made a plaster cast of one of the footprints and showed it to reporters.
    — Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • While techniques vary, a standard process is to make a plaster cast, design the prosthetic based on photos and video, then build it out with durable thermoplastics and metal.
    — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 21 Dec. 2020
  • In 2011, the fragile appendages were hardened with an acetone-soluble glue so that they could be removed from the ground in a block of plaster cast.
    — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • Some 1,000 bodies have been discovered in the ruins, and 104 plaster casts have been preserved.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
  • Some investigators made plaster casts of its prints, but those casts are top secret, probably locked away in federal vaults, Dalrymple said with a sly wink.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
  • And instead of having to be cut off like a traditional plaster cast, a RoboFabric cast could simply be softened and slid off once no longer needed.
    — New Atlas, 23 July 2024

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