—used for a compound that is used as a filler for cracks or holes in a surface
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Aniston appeared stunned as the sludge dripped to the floor and spackled the extras surrounding her.—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 July 2024 Patch a Small Wall Hole You’ve most likely been taught to repair holes in the wall by spackling it with plaster.—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2024 But the wall in the bedroom is scarred with bullet holes, spackled over but still visible.—Rick Jervis, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024 Before spackling, make sure the hole is flat with the surrounding wallboard.—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024 The mountain’s 3,000-foot head wall, parts of it overhanging and spackled in corniced snow and ice, is roughly the size of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.—John Branch, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023 Step 2: Spackle the Wall Generously apply spackle to the patch with a three-inch circumference around it.—Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful, 15 Feb. 2023 If anything, an ideal course of action might be targeting one more run stuffer, perhaps the Giants' Dalvin Tomlinson, in a continued effort to spackle over the loss of injured Vita Vea.—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2020 Their latest work, out this week in PNAS, breaks down the interesting chemical properties of the sticky spackle the aphids use to patch the hole.—Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2019
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