I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cardboard/wooden/plastic box
▪ We packed all our things into big cardboard boxes.
a paper/plastic/china cup (=one made of paper etc)
▪ All they had to drink was warm beer in plastic cups.
a plastic/glass/metal etc container
▪ A lot of food is sold in plastic containers.
a plastic/polythene/paper bag
▪ Store the beans in a paper bag in the fridge.
a rubber/plastic bullet (=one made of rubber/plastic, not designed to kill)
▪ Riot police fired plastic bullets into the air.
a sealed container/box/plastic bag
▪ The specimens he collected were sent back to London in sealed containers.
a wooden/plastic/leather etc chair
▪ In the kitchen was a table with six wooden chairs around it.
cosmetic/plastic surgery (=surgery to improve someone’s appearance)
▪ More and more people are choosing to have plastic surgery.
plastic bullet
plastic explosive
plastic surgery
plastic wrap
plastic/rubber/metal etc sheeting
▪ The roof was covered in plastic sheeting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Plant in the same way as for trees and shrubs, mulching the prepared ground with black plastic or strips of old carpet.
▪ Each was lined with several layers of black plastic U. S. Government burn bag and the plastic sealed with masking tape.
▪ Even the hipsters - a purple and blue check, with a wide black plastic belt - had been preserved.
▪ So keep up the heat in your compost heap by covering it with black plastic sheets, old carpets or sacking.
▪ It was a black plastic dustbin bag.
▪ Three people, including two of our three women, pursued an S &038; M theme with leather and black plastic.
▪ Ellis opened the cupboard and took out a small black plastic suitcase.
▪ Inside was a single ultra-thin sheet of what seemed like pure black plastic.
clear
▪ You can also get them with space for a name card behind a clear plastic window.
▪ Cover the area with clear plastic and secure the edges by burying them.
▪ With 12 clear plastic pockets, it's a bargain at £1.98.
▪ Remove the clear plastic in a month.
▪ When they get to the pillbox they have to divide their purchases into three clear plastic bags for inspection.
▪ Eight big plastic dustbins were filled with clear plastic bags and flown to London.
▪ Stylish, clear plastic lunchbox with carrying handle, available in clear, red, yellow, purple, blue or pink.
▪ Place a clear piece of plastic on a window, close one eye and trace the outlines of what you see.
green
▪ A tea-bag, a spoon of Marvel milk-powder, and the green plastic mug was steaming triumphantly by my side.
▪ He puts his green plastic briefcase on the desk.
▪ The only other control on the green plastic body is a front-mounted on/off switch.
▪ It was fashioned from dark green plastic, wafer thin, yet of considerable weight.
▪ At the comer stood a green plastic rubbish skip, presumably the one where Ruggiero's letter had been left.
large
▪ If you do desire greenery, it is best to use large plastic plants.
▪ You have the following equipment: a large piece of plastic, rope, and an air tank.
▪ Read in studio People are being urged to bury large plastic cones in their gardens and then fill them with waste.
▪ They're asking people to look out for the substances which were in a large grey plastic box.
▪ Placement of large bore plastic biliary stents was a good initial treatment for cholangitis or jaundice when present.
▪ Thérèse poured a large plastic glassful each of red wine.
▪ We also had a large plastic bag which we had to get in.
▪ You can use a large plastic cat litter tray as a dirt-box.
red
▪ She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt.
▪ The researchers had given me an electric thermometer, a stalk of red plastic, to put in my mouth.
▪ There are teacups made of red plastic on the table, and a little teapot.
▪ One of them comes tottering up to him, falls, and pitches a red plastic fire-engine at his feet.
▪ As a gesture of remembrance, the city has filled in many of these indentations with red plastic.
▪ I couldn't go without my red plastic bucket, or rather three of them.
▪ I popped the red plastic thermometer in my mouth and sat checking the map.
small
▪ He pulled the small plastic box free and laid it on top of the crate, fumbling in his jacket pocket for something.
▪ I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk.
▪ The memory card is a small plastic card about the size of a credit card.
▪ Quickly I bought three chocolate liqueur bottles and a small plastic figure of a stag.
▪ There, taped to the bottom, was a small plastic bag of amphetamines.
▪ And a small plastic bag full of white powder.
▪ The trap looks rather like an open-ended small plastic cloche, and hangs in the tree.
▪ Ellis opened the cupboard and took out a small black plastic suitcase.
transparent
▪ When lifted and placed against a transparent plastic sheet they would show up the tiniest particle.
▪ He's wearing a transparent blue plastic cagoule.
▪ Laminate a thin transparent plastic coating applied to paper or board to provide protection and give it a glossy finish.
white
▪ The shoes I had on were white plastic trainers in need of polish.
▪ Steven loved gadgets, and Jean had one of the latest square white plastic electric kettles.
▪ But I will not look up from the tray until I have it safely landed on the white plastic table.
▪ She looked down at the white plastic loop that now bound her wrist to the brass rail on the table.
▪ The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off.
▪ His sheets were scorched after the white plastic monitor box melted and set fire to the carpet.
▪ And the body and headstock binding is simple white plastic, to avoid detracting from the overall look.
▪ For part of the antenatal survey aluminium bowls were replaced by white plastic bowls, which hampered interpretation of the clarity.
■ NOUN
bag
▪ He had a plastic bag in his pocket and he knelt down in the grass and scooped it up.
▪ The plastic bag can be removed when you have finished and the magnet will still remain clean.
▪ He inspected the plastic bag, satisfied that its contents had not been touched.
▪ Place a plastic bag in your pot and fill with ready mixed cement.
▪ A plastic bag containing some of his remains was found two weeks later at Reigate.
▪ Then seal it in a plastic bag to take home.
▪ The check-out clerks normally pack the already neatly wrapped fresh meat for you in a plastic bag.
▪ They used to be alone among the plastic bags, sorting and grading whatever had been donated.
bottle
▪ Wooden and plastic spoons, spatulas, empty plastic tubs, measuring scoops, a cat bell inside a taped-up plastic bottle.
▪ And it even comes in a plastic bottle, so it can be thrown at Teddy without causing serious injury.
▪ Assorted plastic bottles can be cut to the appropriate size.
▪ Fill an empty plastic bottle with a few lentils.
▪ This applies to mineral water as well - substances in the plastic bottle can leach out into the water.
▪ They keep their production costs low and help the environment by recycling waste material such as newspapers and household plastic bottles.
▪ One drum had burst open on impact with the water, leaving plastic bottles of waste floating on the surface.
▪ Cut a plastic bottle in half, and put a mixture of jam and water into the bottom half.
box
▪ He pulled the small plastic box free and laid it on top of the crate, fumbling in his jacket pocket for something.
▪ Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle.
▪ The plastic box was about seven inches long and five across.
▪ One tactic is simply to shield the device, by enclosing it in a metal or plastic box of low impedance.
▪ So I packed my plastic box, and off I went.
▪ Forget all the images you have of little plastic boxes and bored housewives.
▪ They're asking people to look out for the substances which were in a large grey plastic box.
▪ Once they can sit up, babies love to bash saucepans, plastic boxes, biscuit tins, cupboards and fireguards.
bucket
▪ I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk.
▪ The plastic buckets were slowly filled.
▪ If the Palaeolithic stone axe is immediately succeeded in a section by a plastic bucket, then we must suspect a gap.
▪ No flowers, no marble vases, just empty plastic buckets and washing-up bowls.
▪ I couldn't go without my red plastic bucket, or rather three of them.
▪ Harriet stood there in breeches and waxed jacket, holding a rope halter and a plastic bucket.
▪ Robinson and Porter both retrieved the small plastic buckets from one corner of the cell and wandered out on to the landing.
▪ He had asked for, and eventually been given, a plastic bucket of cold water and a sponge.
bullet
▪ Round for round plastic bullets have killed over four times as many people as their rubber predecessors.
carrier
▪ Left: The Diamond kite, using decoration from a plastic carrier bag.
▪ It attracted everyone from stunt flying professionals to kids with an old plastic carrier bag and a piece of string.
▪ She parked the car and hoisted the plastic carriers from the boot, perching the flat, be-ribboned pâtisserie box on top.
▪ After collecting the award Reeves slipped it into a plastic carrier bag and shortly after dropped it.
▪ The four sample bottles of water stood in their plastic carrier on my roomette floor.
▪ To waste them cleaning out a drawer of plastic carrier bags instead of scrambling up lofty pinnacles is something you may regret.
container
▪ The Fluid Foundation comes in a little opaque beige plastic container, and is labelled, in gold lettering, Teint Naturel.
▪ It consists of a plastic container and a liquid-crystal indicator strip.
▪ Duvall was carrying two plastic containers.
▪ Round about Grace herself the great river deposited little but mounds of plastic containers.
▪ He perched beside her and held the plastic container.
▪ Another group combs the refuse for tins, bottles and plastic containers to be sold on junk stalls.
▪ Her searching produced a roll of blankets, the first-aid box and a plastic container full of water.
▪ For dish washing, two plastic containers were filled with lake water, one with soap and the other for rinsing.
cover
▪ On the back of the body, a plastic cover offers easy access to the control cavity.
▪ It overheated and melted the plastic cover.
▪ Robinson smiled as he lifted the plastic cover from the slop bucket to reveal a lump of excrement.
▪ I rattled the plastic cover over the Amstrad but it was firmly locked in place.
cup
▪ A woman police constable deposited four plastic cups of tea on the formica.
▪ I gave him a Fred Flintstone plastic cup of ice water.
▪ Water spills Place a plastic cup full of water inside an empty bowl.
▪ The blades rotate inside a plastic cup, so the blender can even be used in nonstick kitchenware.
▪ Drinks being poured, a plastic cup crumpling, some one beating a fingertip tattoo on a table.
▪ Others keep on staring at their pink plastic cups.
▪ Kidskin sofa, a satinwood desk strewn with papers, overturned plastic cups, the surrounding chairs askew.
▪ He poured a generous measure into a plastic cup then slid it over the top of the desk into her hand.
explosive
▪ As night approached, the man was forced to put on a belt packed with plastic explosives and connected to a detonator.
▪ We waited for two minutes before the combined strength of thirty-five pounds of EP-12 plastic explosive tore the car apart.
pipe
▪ Mine gained great pleasure from playing with a piece of plastic pipe.
▪ Lengths of plastic pipe are useful as a cave as they are light, and easy to move.
▪ If space is very tight, use flexible copper pipe or plastic pipe for some if not all of the final fittings.
▪ Keep your hacksaw handy for cutting plastic pipe, however.
▪ Solvent-weld fitting Cutting plastic pipe Plastic pipe can be cut easily with a hacksaw.
▪ Recently, plastic pipe has become available for home plumbing for both hot and cold water pipes.
▪ Add a length of plastic pipe over the top of the funnel so that it comes up to the top of the bottle.
plant
▪ Filtration: Undergravel Decor: The tank contains slate and bogwood with plastic plants.
▪ No new plastics plants will be opened; no existing plants will be closed.
▪ However, all these species will suffer at the mouths of Scats, if you want these plant eaters choose plastic plants.
▪ If you do desire greenery, it is best to use large plastic plants.
▪ Clean rocks, plastic plants, etc in a bucket of warm water with a cupful of household bleach.
▪ Algae stained plastic plants can be bleached and rinsed cleaned.
▪ Inset shows the same set-up with a mixture of natural and plastic plants.
sheet
▪ So keep up the heat in your compost heap by covering it with black plastic sheets, old carpets or sacking.
▪ If you're basing yourself at one campsite place an old groundsheet or plastic sheet under the tent.
▪ The deck and superstructure is effectively a sandwich of foam contained within two fibre reinforced plastic sheets.
▪ The intestinal segment, covered by a thin plastic sheet, was placed on a plastic plate specially designed for this purpose.
▪ Esda is effectively negated because the plastic sheet ensures that no indentation is left on underlying pages.
▪ When lifted and placed against a transparent plastic sheet they would show up the tiniest particle.
▪ It's easy to be tidy, just carry a plastic sheet or bag upon which your excavated earth is placed.
▪ The corpses lay uncovered in the open on plastic sheets.
sheeting
▪ Also widely grown are tomatoes and strawberries, nowadays mainly under plastic sheeting.
▪ As strawberries ripen, push some straw or plastic sheeting under them so they can't rot on the soil.
▪ There were no more coffins available, but by four o'clock we had buried the soldiers, wrapped in plastic sheeting.
▪ Wardle Storeys, he plastic sheeting concern, had a nervous session, falling 27p to 266p.
▪ Soon, he knew, the two bodies would be neatly parcelled in plastic sheeting.
▪ Rizla waded into some plastic sheeting and resumed her second teething phase with it.
▪ A cheaper alternative to glass is to double glaze them yourself with plastic sheeting, but this will obviously affect their appearance.
surgeon
▪ For years now, self-appointed surgeons without the appropriate training have been performing life-threatening operations usurping the skills of consultant plastic surgeons.
▪ Once here he will have an operation to repair a cleft palate by plastic surgeon Charles Viva.
▪ Did you hear about the plastic surgeon warming himself by the fire?
▪ It may be necessary to get reports from an orthopaedic surgeon, a neurologist and perhaps a plastic surgeon.
▪ He said plastic surgeons were working close with the surgery team.
surgery
▪ She's had so much plastic surgery done, it's not like she's herself any more.
▪ They've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury.
▪ Doctors hope Christina's face will heal quickly and that she will be able to avoid plastic surgery.
▪ Instead, 20-year-old Alison was transferred by ambulance to a specialist plastic surgery unit 60 miles away.
▪ He became one of the first to benefit from the plastic surgery techniques pioneered by Sir Archibald McIndoe.
▪ One of my men had to have plastic surgery after that little lark.
▪ He was later transferred to St John's hospital in Livingston where he underwent plastic surgery.
tube
▪ He slipped out of the pony harness, withdrew the slim plastic tube and emptied the sticky gerbils back into their cage.
▪ The distal end of the intestinal segment was connected via a plastic tube to a basin on the plate.
▪ A long plastic tube containing a tasty morsel of food in the middle was placed in their cage.
▪ Firstly, we have to realise the full potential for growth and profitability of our plastic tube technology.
■ VERB
carry
▪ Duvall was carrying two plastic containers.
▪ Smitty was carrying the plastic can up the side of a rock where wildflowers grew.
▪ I see Harry sauntering through the gates wearing a warm coat and carrying a plastic bag.
▪ Gionesca wore a bedsheet and a necklace of rabbit-bones, and led four pall-bearers carrying a plastic carton containing a Marlboro butt.
▪ They carried a long plastic body-bag into the building.
▪ It's easy to be tidy, just carry a plastic sheet or bag upon which your excavated earth is placed.
▪ I had no sleeping bag but always carry an orange plastic survival bag in the rucksack.
contain
▪ A plastic bag containing some of his remains was found two weeks later at Reigate.
▪ Behind her and to the right stretched a plastic canopy containing cakes and filled rolls.
▪ Gionesca wore a bedsheet and a necklace of rabbit-bones, and led four pall-bearers carrying a plastic carton containing a Marlboro butt.
▪ The waiter smacked a plastic plate containing the bill on to the corner of the table and glared at them.
▪ It consists of a plastic 3*3 square containing eight little tiles and one empty space.
▪ A long plastic tube containing a tasty morsel of food in the middle was placed in their cage.
▪ He is skinnier than ever before and the owner of several plastic bags each containing a forgotten toothbrush.
fill
▪ Then after filling a plastic bag she popped the lot in the bin.
▪ Holly had filled the plastic bag with oil and twisted the neck tight and fastened it with a snip of wire.
▪ Eight big plastic dustbins were filled with clear plastic bags and flown to London.
▪ Give him a plastic or wooden spoon and plug your ears! Fill an empty plastic bottle with a few lentils.
hold
▪ Florence re-emerged holding a plastic raincoat over herself and the baby, and got into the back seat.
▪ The cans are held together by plastic, and you can see the red and white labels.
▪ The best way to train for this is to have your partner hold a plastic foam impact pad against his chest.
▪ She was holding a plastic bag of ice cubes on top of her head.
▪ He is holding the plastic tub out to Keith.
make
▪ There are grants for developing industrial crops to generate energy, make plastics and grow hemp for manufacturing.
▪ Why not make cars or plastics this way?
▪ You can't make spaceships out of plastic!
▪ It smashed through the gates, tearing them off their hinges as though they were made of plastic.
▪ These are made from a tough plastic foam and are very light to wear.
▪ The buildings were made of plastic and glass on a plexiglass base, detailed at the front but merely silhouettes further back.
▪ Collecting and cleaning some types of plastic for recycling uses more energy than making new plastic.
▪ As mentioned in the introduction, the LEGATO.INI that you see here is one I made earlier from sticky-backed plastic.
put
▪ I hang my clothes in the wardrobe and put on the plastic gown.
▪ She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt.
▪ He puts his green plastic briefcase on the desk.
▪ All the same, she put a little more plastic holly in the shop-window.
▪ Never block ventilation bricks. Put metal or plastic around the sides of doors.
▪ They made him strip, put a plastic bag over his head and then poured petrol over him.
▪ Newspapers are tied up in bundles, or put into plastic bags.
▪ Unrecycleable material is put into either plastic or brown paper rubbish bags.
use
▪ So the detergent companies have been careful to use lots of recycled plastic in their containers.
▪ Oceangoers compare the diversity of techniques used in fishing plastic to that of fly fishing.
▪ Endoprosthesis placement was performed in the conventional manner using a plastic prosthesis for the bile and pancreatic ducts.
▪ Are you addicted to the joy of using plastic?
▪ I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk.
▪ Jim Thorpe: using plastic kiddies' clubs.
▪ Left: The Diamond kite, using decoration from a plastic carrier bag.
▪ And as they use more plastic, chemicals and metals, so what they discard becomes increasingly durable and potentially poisonous.
wrap
▪ Carry your spares in their original bubble pack or, if loose, wrap each battery in plastic.
▪ She wrapped the blazing plastic in a cloth and drove away to pass the sweltering hours until she could visit again.
▪ If a toy is wrapped in a plastic bag make sure that you keep the bag out of the reach of children.
▪ Rindless cheeses are produced by wrapping cheeses in plastic.
▪ They take tissue from an animal and wrap it in plastic before transplanting it.
▪ Another tip for a different effect is to wrap a plastic bag around the roller with a rubber band.
▪ There's something inside, wrapped up in a plastic bag.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
metal-coated/plastic-coated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I didn't have the cash for a trip home, so I paid with plastic.
▪ The company experimented with various plastics but found that aluminum was still the best option.
▪ The doors are made of plastic so they don't dent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Not a piece of sticky-back plastic, a toilet roll or a Blue Peter badge in sight!
▪ Some industries, for example plastics, will evidently not be greatly affected.
▪ You have the following equipment: a large piece of plastic, rope, and an air tank.
II.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bag
▪ Punctured plastic bags blow across the adjacent plots of waste land.
▪ Each plastic bag and drainage tile dropped in the coffin makes the world just that much more beautiful.
▪ But not the man with the plastic bag.
▪ Wash them before packing into plastic bags or containers.
▪ All radiocarbon samples should be sealed within a clean container such as a plastic bag at the time of recovery.
▪ It was supplied in plastic bags, carefully wrapped up and tied at the neck with string.
▪ A body wrapped in a plastic bag is loaded on to a lorry and taken off to the morgue.
▪ They pushed a plastic bag over his head and almost suffocated him.
bottle
▪ All you need is a light and a few empty plastic bottles.
▪ That move is aimed at meeting global demand for plastic bottles.
▪ Keep refrigerated in small plastic bottles until a demonstration.
▪ The teacher from Boston told me that this plastic bottle was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
▪ Using tyre tubes and air-filled plastic bottles as life-jackets, they stayed within sight of land and took turns rowing.
▪ She set out through the brush with the empty plastic bottles.
▪ Alternatively, you can make your own by filling two plastic bottles with water or sand or use cans of beans.
▪ The market for providing clear plastic bottles is open in Minnesota, he said.
box
▪ But there is also something worrying about a plastic box outwitting humans at this most cerebral of pastimes.
chair
▪ Archie ignored the bell and continued talking but everyone stopped listening and started worming their way free of the hard plastic chairs.
▪ There is a woman with blowsy yellow hair pushing along an orange plastic chair as she mutters obscenities to herself.
▪ I watched them watching, my thighs getting sweaty on the plastic chair to which the secretary had consigned me.
▪ There is a man sitting on a plastic chair tied in restraints, rocking back and forth.
container
▪ Near these were assorted plastic containers.
▪ Mattie grunted abstractedly, totally engrossed in peering at the various plastic containers and bowls in the refrigerator.
▪ The dishwasher was filled with plastic containers from Boston Market, but still the pantry was empty.
▪ SchultzeAllen markets a kind of worm condo, a multilevel plastic container system about the size of a backyard grill.
▪ The socks are the latest item to be made from eco-friendly EcoSpun, a material made from recycled plastic containers.
▪ Aseptic boxes of fruit juices or plastic containers of prepared beverages can be frozen to serve double duty in the cooler.
cup
▪ People emerge from the casinos with beers in one hand and plastic cups full of change in the other.
▪ He brought out the bottle and the plastic cups.
▪ Douglas kept plastic cups to drink from.
▪ Give each group a plastic cup with a small amount of the cabbage water in it.
▪ With each lunge his jaw shot past a plastic cup of coffee which was on the desk.
▪ I sipped my plastic cup of reconstituted orange juice and took a bite of my over-buttered pumpernickel bagel, smearing my hands.
explosive
▪ Semtex is not the only plastic explosive.
▪ Some machines sniff out plastic explosives.
▪ As passed by the House and agreed to by the Senate, the bill allowed only plastic explosives to be tagged.
▪ Inside he found what he took to be plastic explosive, wrapped in cellophane, with a wire protruding from it.
▪ Instructions on how to make plastic explosives are on the Internet and in anti-government underground literature.
▪ Then, we would line the bottom with plastic explosive, about 2 pounds or better.
▪ In 1991, 40 nations gathered in Montreal to develop a plan for better controls and detection of plastic explosives.
▪ As the investigation into these bombings continues, it has reinvigorated efforts to learn more about the black market for plastic explosives.
sack
▪ On Polly's other chair was a big plastic sack of fertilizer.
▪ Most plastic sacks contain only 5 percent recycled content.
▪ Another reason is, plastic sacks are commonly contaminated by trash, such as paper and metal cans stuck inside.
▪ A plastic sack costs less than 2 cents.
▪ If everyone used plastic sacks, that would save Randalls about $ 3 million a year.
sheet
▪ Within moments a plastic sheet had been placed on the floor and a mountain of food was brought in.
▪ Workers held up plastic sheets so that bystanders and news cameras had no view.
▪ At the end of last week 116 had returned for classes on plastic sheets strewn with leaves.
▪ These minute air pockets within the plastic sheet act as mirrors and reflect light.
surgeon
▪ He said the plastic surgeon drank vodka and sniffed cocaine during the operation, and the result was a ghastly mask.
▪ A plastic surgeon said no decision would be made on whether they needed reconstructive surgery until their wounds healed.
▪ Conley markets the nip-and-tuck package by going directly to about 35 San Franciscan plastic surgeons.
▪ But the big scene happens at a cocktail party in the home of a famous plastic surgeon.
▪ The plastic surgeon to the stars...
▪ Now, board-certified plastic surgeons appear on your television screen to sell you a new face.
surgery
▪ One way of exorcizing such fear and longing is to submit to the ghastly ritual of plastic surgery.
▪ HOUSTONRight before Geni Hefner had plastic surgery to repair her battered face, she sat in her apartment and recalled the horror.
▪ Later, police rushed the damaged nose part to hospital where it was sewn back on by delicate plastic surgery.
▪ Carrillo died last July 4 from complications following extensive plastic surgery and liposuction.
▪ Medical care at the hospital was soon expanded to include rehabilitation and plastic surgery.
wrap
▪ Flatten slightly into disk and wrap in plastic wrap.
▪ Put them on a plate, cover lightly with plastic wrap, and refrigerate.
▪ Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
▪ The price is right and the laundry comes returned to you in an vacuum-tight plastic wrap.
▪ Press mixture down hard and wrap in plastic wrap.
▪ Return to a clean bowl and cover with damp towel or plastic wrap, or put the bowl inside a plastic bag.
▪ Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let dough rise in a warm place until it has doubled in bulk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A clear plastic tarp flapped and ballooned in the breeze.
▪ But not the man with the plastic bag.
▪ By mid-century, Californians Charles and Ray Eames had molded their plastic chaise for a 1948 museum competition.
▪ I tried to find the plastic value of these fragments of our modern life.
▪ People emerge from the casinos with beers in one hand and plastic cups full of change in the other.
▪ She just let her feet get wet in their sensible plastic sandals.
▪ The murder weapon, a Kalashnikov free of fingerprints, was left at the scene in a plastic bag.
▪ They closed a few plants and decided to use the idle machinery to make plastic chips for cigarette filters.