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    plastic


    1. They have a tough plastic or hide side to expose to the ground, or sand in this case, with a nylon lining and dacron batting


    2. Plastic containers which are placed in the ground and will allow slugs to enter but not escape


    3. The other things were these gray plastic storage bins that lined up the floor


    4. As they walked down the white, sterile hallway, the three started to pass rooms on either side with reinforced, plastic windows that allowed you to look in


    5. A simple trip to the grocery store will be filled with episodes of bad drivers, poorly-timed traffic lights, crowded aisles, indifferent checkout clerks, and thin plastic grocery bags that rip too easily


    6. The computer he was using was connected to a transparent plastic box beside him


    7. The Operator reached out a trembling, sweat-soaked hand and unplugged the Chip from the plastic box


    8. plastic bags, garbage, blocked drains, blocked ‘Nalas’, unauthorized constructions blocking free flow of drain water and sewage and non-removal of materials after building constructions


    9. Walls are pale lime, the floor has square, plastic white tile


    10. After this the plastic cover is not needed

    11. contours of the plastic body under her dress, and in touching her fantastically


    12. thread strained and writhed as the inner plastic of the shop-window mannequin


    13. Cover the pile with clear plastic


    14. The clear plastic has several functions:


    15. the bill in a black plastic wallet and with that delightful hint of gravel in the Greek


    16. The young man fished out a fifty Euro note and slid it into the plastic wallet


    17. Plastic flowers stand in vases here and there


    18. The tables and chairs are made of white plastic


    19. There is a stone patio next to the building overlooking the pounding waves and a couple of local men sit drinking a beer at a plastic table and talking


    20. Only sixty eight percent of aluminums change hands without being tested, seventy nine percent of the aluminum that changes hands is shipped between financial institutions in sealed and indexed plastic pouches

    21. Betsy was sitting outside, dozing uncomfortably on a plastic patio chair in the hallway


    22. Bolt pushes along the fence row, snapping pictures as he walks of rocks, an acacia tree covered with windblown plastic bags, his shoe, a pile of garbage rotting in the sun, a dead sheep rotting in the sun


    23. I really ought to get some of those plastic boxes with lids … smaller ones which I could store all this stuff in


    24. Ahmed monkeys around with a plastic toy boat


    25. By the far wall of the cell I found a dry plastic bucket with a broken handle


    26. The bucket, for instance, felt clean and dry, but bathed in the aromas of moulded plastic and disinfectant I could sense a mixture of bleach and the faint tang of stale urine


    27. The silence was broken by the sound of Smiler’s boot cap thwacking into the plastic water bottle


    28. From behind his back he flourished two plastic shopping bags


    29. I caressed each object, staring at it, turning it over and over in my shaking hands, discovering the simple joy of some bright plastic birthday nothing as if for the very first time


    30. Using Fred’s suggestion, we are packing the barrel with damp sand to hold the tree upright and in the hope that the dampness will stop it dropping quite as fast as they generally do; this, naturally, means we need a sheet of plastic to protect the floor … oh it just gets more complicated by the second! But between us we get it all sorted out

    31. The pressure sensitive ones like his had little plastic bumps sticking out of the plank and the wood was well finished instead of rough-sawn


    32. Closing her eyes, fighting against the sharp disinfectant smell of the hospital, she forced herself to picture the interior of the bus … nauseating diesel fumes … a dingy, well used fabric covering the seats, chipped and faded paint on the accoutrements of metal … or was it plastic? She found it hard to tell sometimes … she heard again the chatter and laughter of the young people as they swayed along the aisle towards the door as the vehicle approached the bus stop


    33. He’d even got as far as starting to turn out his belongings, sorting a great heap of garments, knickknacks and furnishings into black plastic bags already heaped in his car so he could drop them at the charity shop near his office during his lunch hour


    34. She’d been amazed by the overabundance of cleaning materials that she had correctly guessed would be stored in the cupboard under the sink – some things defy cultural differences! Kneeling on the floor, all the better to examine the various spray containers and bottles piled in there, her amazement turned into confusion … there were plastic spray bottles for limescale removal, disinfecting the worktops … apparently killing 99% of all known germs - though that did raise the question of what danger the remaining 1% presented if it was so vital to get rid of the things … bottles of cream for cleaning the sink and another, lavender scented, for polishing wood, a big bottle of bleach that at least smelt familiar, and noxious substances for cleaning the oven that had signs warning of danger plastered all over them … it was an education


    35. He lifted the rattling bag of tricks, wedging the cracked plastic base


    36. on the cracked plastic bumper of his rusting, once white car


    37. he sits in a high sided, plastic covered chair


    38. and plastic covered Christmas cards


    39. peering out of primary coloured plastic Wendy Houses,


    40. Ribbed plastic cups, stamped with the word “Hot”,

    41. gingerly flexes its fingers on the hot plastic,


    42. of plastic on a smoke stained wall,


    43. of plastic on the ear,


    44. watching plastic packed movies that always taste the same


    45. the plastic army watches, smiling, shouting,


    46. "Let me take the empty skin, and what's left of your camp cooking kit," which was just a little plastic plate and some plastic tableware


    47. towards plastic sheets and hand outs,


    48. Around the corner from a large plastic cash-register of a restaurant called 'Neon', I saw a little boy propped against the wall of a bank and sitting on an old sheet next to a tin box containing a few coins


    49. "No pins," the redhead said, "see these plastic pinch blocks? Just pull a rope thru here and it stays, better than you can belay it, til you pull back this lever here


    50. of the writing on skipping plastic carrier bags,














































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    Synonyms for "plastic"

    charge card charge plate credit card plastic formative shaping fictile moldable pliant substitute moulded cast artificial fake ersatz phony flexible supple impressionable elastic ductile mobile synthetic

    "plastic" definitions

    generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives


    a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered


    capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)


    capable of being influenced or formed


    forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning