sticking-plaster

"There are the short-term sticking-plaster steps of a proper firewall to prevent contagion around Europe, a much more decisive settlement for Greece... strengthening the European banks," he told Sky News.

BBC News - Home 2012

Her arm was out of the sling and she had a band of sticking-plaster round her wrist.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

Her arm was out of the sling and she had a band of sticking-plaster round her wrist.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

Francesca, who had left them, returned with a large piece of sticking-plaster, which she applied to the wound.

Albert Savarus 2007

Francesca, who had left them, returned with a large piece of sticking-plaster, which she applied to the wound.

Albert Savarus 2007

With the paper, there fell out on the counterpane of the bed a small packet of sticking-plaster, and a little water-colour drawing of a landscape.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

In the centre was a melancholy statue, so piebald in its decay, that it looked exactly as if it had been covered with sticking-plaster, and afterwards powdered.

Pictures from Italy 2007

I found a handbag I thought a suitable possession, and some powder, rouge, and sticking-plaster.

The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

We have there a cantonment, and thither I went for the mere sake of the surgeon and the sticking-plaster.

Burlesques 2006

One ancestor, of whom there was only a bust, frowned in the greatest rage, because, having no legs, his pedestal would not move; and several sticking-plaster profiles of the former Lords of Windeck looked quite black at being, for similar reasons, compelled to keep their places.

Burlesques 2006