Plasticine
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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For his haunting 2013 puzzle game, The Swapper, Olli Harjola sculpted sets and characters out of Plasticine and then digitized them using a technique called photogrammetry.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Mr. Böhm, who trained as a sculptor as well as an architect, often modeled his buildings out of clay or Plasticine, designing structures that rose like concrete mountains over a forest or town.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 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
The palm trees we made out of pieces of larch and yew fastened by Plasticine to the tops of elder twigs—and elder twigs have a graceful carriage, not too upright and yet not drooping.
From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
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