How to Use plastic foam in a Sentence

plastic foam

noun
  • Wrap plastic foam egg shapes with crepe paper, and attach the ends with glue or a small straight pin.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Wrap plastic foam egg shapes with crepe paper, and attach the ends with glue or a small straight pin.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Wrap plastic foam balls of various sizes with orange, cream, and black yarn.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Oct. 2022
  • That’s displaced a tremendous amount of single use plastic foam.
    — Simon Mainwaring, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Using a roller, roll paint over the plastic foam blocks, and press image onto white art paper.
    — Janna Oberdorf, Parents, 15 Dec. 2025
  • In the meantime, the plastic foam beasts will remain locked in the kitchen for safekeeping.
    — Danica Kirka, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2022
  • Cigarette butts and chunks of plastic foam swirled around her legs in murky water that reeked of rotting fish.
    — Dake Kang, ajc, 30 July 2021
  • Wrap the remaining plastic foam balls with the black, green, purple, and orange yarn.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • To make one for yourself, hot glue two rows of hemlock pinecones around the base of a 14-inch-tall plastic foam cone.
    — Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Even insulated in cardboard or plastic foam, wines can bake on a cross-country truck ride.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Others have banned plastic foam products, which can’t be recycled.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Wrap plastic foam egg shapes ($4, Joann) with crepe paper, and secure the ends with glue or a small straight pin.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Check around your foundation for the vents and cut wood or plastic foam blocks to fit vent openings, then slide them in to get through the cold spell.
    — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Check around your foundation for the vents and cut wood or plastic foam blocks to fit vent openings, then slide them in to get through the cold spell.
    — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Create various lengths of snakes by cutting them in two; arrange them at the edge of thick plastic foam board and glue to the edges.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The ban aims to protect the environment and wildlife from the harmful impact of plastic foam.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Even on the uninhabited island, plastic foam, bottles and bags were all over the place.
    — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 14 May 2018
  • And a growing number of states and cities have introduced bans on single-use plastic bags or plastic foam products.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • Caviar in a plastic foam to-go box doesn’t hit the same, though McGovern thought about osetra-to-go.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Carol Duvall looked at the plastic foam trays that meat or vegetables come packaged in and saw picture frames.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a practical reason for this, since plastic foam is cheaper and more forgiving — and much, much lighter — than granite.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Pompano Beach last year began requiring all city vendors and food providers at city events to avoid putting takeout food in plastic foam clamshells.
    — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 June 2018
  • Chunks of plastic foam used to ship TVs and the like can be used (but not foam peanuts, which become a pain to extract when the pot is emptied).
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • But no plastic foam, plastic, glass or bottle caps — and definitely no dog or human feces, said Peitz.
    — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The Hawaiian version stands apart, mostly for the thickness of the Wagyu meat, a crown of Spam and a plastic foam cup of gravy.
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • Her recent works, including the three examples here, are spires or monoliths embedded with plastic foam beads and coated with acrylic paint.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Otherwise, the refuse was plastic foam, plastic food wrappers, bottlecaps and plastic fragments.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • On Monday, Bezerra protected plastic foam coolers with cardboard shells and filled them with ice.
    — Anne Godlasky, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
  • In 2019, the city began enforcing a ban on plastic foam takeout containers.
    — Laura Nahmias, Fortune, 20 June 2023
  • In 2018, the second-largest Hawaiian island banned plastic foam food containers.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025

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