Plasticine
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“I’d been making these massive Plasticine resin paintings. I was so into it. I’d just shown in the Venice Biennale, and I wasn’t ready to not make something ambitious,” she says.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2024
Vulnerable young Instagram users can spend hours each day scrolling through photos and blaming themselves for not living up to the unrealistic, Plasticine standards of “beauty” that proliferate there.
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2021
"If that proves too taxing, then they are asked to organise a fashion parade or make Plasticine models," he added.
From BBC • May 9, 2013
Claiming to look like an unprepossessing Plasticine model he does not in fact remotely resemble seems an odd way to curry favour.
From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2012
But except as mortar Plasticine should be shunned.
From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
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