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Example sentences for "papier mache"

  • Coffins for what is known as Earth to Earth Burial are made of wicker-work covered with a thin layer of papier mache over cloth.

  • Ordinary thin deal and papier mache are the favourite materials.

  • These were made of hard wood or papier mache painted, and like the stone coffins bore hieroglyphics.

  • A papier mache pad is prepared with a spirit message on one surface; on the other is pasted a piece of newspaper.

  • In the other experiment the medium uses a papier mache slate, set in the usual wooden frame.

  • The vases are made of papier mache, painted white on the outside and black on the inside.

  • The skeleton is made of papier mache, painted white, and fastened on a thin board that is sawed to shape and covered with black velvet.

  • Rocks and trees of papier mache and canvas are brought in and placed in position.

  • The tables are made either of wood or papier mache and painted white.

  • Some of these powdered and glued on papier mache or cork bark stumps and limbs produce a very pleasing effect.

  • Papier mache is also a good modeling material for stumps, limbs and rock, being light, and readily taking coats of glue or paint.

  • When the specimen is thoroughly dry, in two or three weeks, dig a sufficient amount of clay out of the eye opening and put in the glass eye, setting it in papier mache.

  • Papier mache is obtained from old paper and the like made into a pulp by grinding with milk of lime or lime water, and a little gum dextrin or starch.

  • Can you give me a recipe for making papier mache?

  • Well, take this key, go to my boudoir, in the fifth drawer of my papier mache black bureau, you will find a case of handkerchiefs.

  • I concluded to give up right in my tracks, and let myself be wet down into papier mache by the descending elements.

  • Then do go and bring me six handkerchiefs from my boudoir, in the fifth drawer of my black papier mache bureau.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after referring; better world; clerical error; could not bring myself; days each; early and sending them; fell mortally; general merchandise; greatly fear; individual rights; painted wood; papier mache; powdered alum; previously explained; remain until; right smart; slavery conflict; special committee; supernatural revelation; this society; white girl; writing table