How to Use wallboard in a Sentence

wallboard

noun
  • The reasoning here is that closed-cell gives off too much heat to spray behind the wallboard, but open-cell does not.
    — Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
  • Before spackling, make sure the hole is flat with the surrounding wallboard.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Keep in Mind It cannot be mounted to drywall, plaster, or wallboard alone.
    — Jack Byram, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2024
  • While it can be mounted in wood studs, concrete, and brick walls, it cannot be mounted to drywall, plaster, or wallboard.
    — Jack Byram, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2024
  • More than half was turned into other materials such as cement, grout and wallboard.
    — Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Next door, at 111 Pearl, wallboard was starting to be installed on the upper floors.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • In addition to fill, coal ash also is often used in the production of gypsum wallboard and concrete.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • There is less concerns when it's bound within a product or location, such as sealed under concrete or inside wallboard.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The mounting tape should not be applied to wallpaper, wallboard, plaster, or veneer surfaces.
    — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The state spent almost $6 million to seal the brick building, replace the roof and remove wallboard and carpet that had been damaged by leaks.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The state spent $6 million to seal the brick building, replace the roof and remove wallboard and carpet damaged by leaking water.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The state spent nearly $6 million on repairs to seal the building, replace the roof and remove wallboard and carpet that had been damaged by leaks.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The reports included photographs of foundation fractures and cracks in wallboard and tile.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Still others often penetrate deep into wallboard, drapes and upholstery.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Mar. 2020
  • If any cash-flow problems loomed, word had not reached the workers who bustled around the house on Tuesday, repainting the stoop, doing wiring and installing wallboard.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • But some interior damage occurred, such as wallboard seams separating and the water tank valve malfunctioning.
    — Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The piles up and down this street, and along many other nearby streets — shards of wallboard and mildewing carpet, artificial flowers and computer monitors — stand taller than some people.
    — John Schwartz and Alan Blinder, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Demand for lumber, wallboard, insulation and the like typically follows a pattern, Shute said.
    — NBC News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The heavy 4-by-8-foot sheets, also known as wallboard, sheetrock, gypsum or plasterboard, have been a cheap and ubiquitous wall covering for nearly a century.
    — David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Also, don’t try to block the entry to the nest that’s in a wall or behind shutters because angry yellowjackets can chew through wallboard to escape and emerge indoors, says Crawley.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Also, don’t try to block the entry to the nest that’s in a wall or behind shutters because angry yellowjackets can chew through wallboard to escape and emerge indoors, says Crawley.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
  • Also, don’t try to block the entry to the nest that’s in a wall or behind shutters because angry yellowjackets can chew through wallboard to escape and emerge indoors, says Crawley.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Prices and availability of wood, steel, wallboard, copper and PVC piping, cement, and paint make building tough to keep on track and expensive to do.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • Makers of chemicals, cat litter, fertilizer, paper, wallboard and steel have told investors over the past few weeks that lower gas bills are easing cost pressures and bolstering profit margins.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 28 June 2023
  • The old concrete-block-and-wallboard storage building, approximately 36 feet long by 30 feet wide, was cluttered at one end with paint cans, carpentry tools, a chair and a rusting garage heater.
    — Michael Futch, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2020
  • And owners must address visible mold by using dehumidifiers, fixing structural problems, using bleach and replacing porous surfaces like wallboard that have become moldy.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Asbestos has been used for decades in insulation and fireproofing materials, automotive brakes and textile products, and cement and wallboard materials.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The white-colored material, which looks like the clean gypsum used in wallboard, contains measurable quantities of radium, uranium, thorium, radon, and a variety of toxic heavy metals.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Historically, it has been used in a range of commercial products such from insulation and fireproofing materials, to automotive brakes, and wallboard materials.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The vibrations coming through the ceiling will be almost impossible to mitigate without opening up the ceiling and putting in vibration-dampening, then installing soundproofing insulation and wallboard — a very daunting challenge.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2021

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