Definition: 1. 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. 2. Used of the imagination. 3. Capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material).
Use 'plastic' in a sentence:
1. A woman picks them up and seals them in plastic bags.
2. When girls put on too much eye-shadow, they look plastic.
3. She bent and picked up a plastic bucket.
4. Plastic tends to discolour with age.
5. A lot of the plastics that carmakers are using cannot be recycled.
6. He tied the ends of the plastic bag together.
7. Over the past forty years plastics have revolutionised the way we live.
8. They postulated a 500-year lifespan for a plastic container.
9. He makes plastic reusable moulds.
10. Using plastic to pay for an order is simplicity itself.
11. The pipes should be made of plastic.
12. I placed a sheet of plastic over the top of the container.
13. A plastic surgeon can remove the top layer of skin.
14. The plant makes plastic covered steel pipes for the oil and gas industries.
15. She had clocked out of her bank at 5:02pm using her plastic card.
16. Several blue plastic boxes under the window were filled with CDs.
17. They put plastic sheeting on the insides of our windows.
18. I was sitting on a wobbly plastic chair.
19. The material will be processed into plastic pellets.
20. Moulded plastic is almost indestructible, but scuffs easily.
21. The durable high-impact plastic case is water resistant to 100 feet.
22. This type of plastic is almost indestructible.
23. The plastic bag contained all his worldly goods.
24. He had plastic surgery to help reconstruct his badly damaged face.
25. It looked as though the plastic wrap was moulded to the fruit.
26. They manufacture the class of plastics known as thermoplastic materials.
27. When burnt, plastic produces dangerous by-products.
28. The organs are kept in sealed plastic bags.
29. Clay is a plastic substance.
30. The plastic arts include sculpture, pottery and painting.
31. A plastic bag was floating in the water.
32. Put the bottle in a plastic bag in case of spillage.
33. Glass and plastic objects lined the shelves.
34. Crowds of people plodded around in yellow plastic raincoats.
35. Rubbish can easily be separated and sorted into plastics, glass and paper.
36. He pulled the plastic covering off the dead body.
37. It's real wood—not one of those plastic jobs.
38. Modern plastics can stand very high and very low temperatures.
39. Grow lettuces under plastic stretched over wire hoops.
40. The stool had a torn, red plastic seat.
41. Do they take plastic?
42. It was I who first raised the subject of plastic surgery.
43. Plastic flowers have always been a particular hate of mine.
44. The chairs were covered in some sort of plastic stuff.
45. The substance polymerizes to form a hard plastic.
46. It's real wood ─ not one of those plastic jobs.
