plaster
noun
a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
were plastering
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past progressiveof plaster.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Upon these hotels workmen were plastering furiously last week, tacking shingles like a swarm of mad woodpeckers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hospital attendants in San Antonio, Tex., smiled pityingly at an elderly gentleman whose two broken ribs and fractured collarbone they were plastering last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’m going to hold my own against Dud Fielding and all his kind, no matter how they push; and I told Father Rector that yesterday when they were plastering up Dud’s eye and nose.”
From Killykinick by Mary T. (Mary Theresa) Waggaman
On the island, other beavers were plastering the spaces between the trees with mud and leaves.
From Story Hour Readers — Book Three by Ida Coe
At Dubetchnya they were plastering the inside of the station, and building a wooden upper storey to the pumping shed.
From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
