adhesive bandage AmE
sticking plaster BrE , also: Elastoplast BrE trademark
Band-Aid AmE trademark
plaster , *

I think there will be a run on sticking plaster.

This is just a sticking plaster to get the Euro through another few weeks.

He is basically taking control of a squad held together with sticking plaster.

There had been a piece of sticking plaster on its left flank.

More sticking plaster and more blood all over his hands.

I felt as if a sticking plaster had been ripped from a wound.

"I have no problem with using a sticking plaster, but use the time it gives you to get proper treatment."

She said this was just a bit of sticking plaster here and a bandage there.

Something far more than a sticking plaster is needed.

She settled for a few sticking plasters and something to drink.

This is just a sticking plaster on a large wound, or the think end of the wedge.

The longer the economic crisis goes on, the less credible sticking plaster solutions become.

Felt a prick in her wrist, then saw sticking plaster.

And yet we persist in putting sticking plaster on deep wounds.

The source said: "This review is not simply a sticking plaster.

The patch of sticking plaster on David's brow could not be ignored.

Then he wound sticking plaster around it to hold it.

To end with another saying, the proposed measures amount to no more than putting sticking plaster over the wounds.

She did her best with the sticking plaster.

She found some sticking plaster and taped a strip over a cut on the bridge of his nose.

"I strap it to my leg with sticking plaster!"

This one is a hand-made ball of clothing covered by sticking plaster.

Sounding off with macho policies will not resolve the problem its just a sticking plaster.

He wrote all his answers, unable as he was to speak through the sticking plaster.

He noticed on the left side of her throat a small square of sticking plaster.

He is at work on a novel about the adhesive bandage industry.

It is also used in the manufacture of adhesive bandages.

Common medical supplies such as adhesive bandages were useless here.

Tolstoy reached into her bag and pulled out several adhesive bandages.

More than one million Americans use the patches, which look like adhesive bandages and are usually attached to the chest.

Some cushioning adhesive bandages should take care of things in the morning."

Surgical tape is an adhesive bandage used to hold a dressing on a wound.

He pulled off the adhesive bandage and Ben jumped.

Billy Martin, who was also in the broadcast booth, said it seemed to him to be an adhesive bandage.

Adhesive bandages Cover cuts and blisters from that new pair of shoes.

Upon completion, sterile strips and a small adhesive bandage are applied to the skin.

Adhesive bandages of different sizes can also help protect minor cuts and scrapes.

(If a tear did develop, it could be fixed with an adhesive bandage.

He used a cotton swab and an adhesive bandage, then finished the patrol.

He ripped the adhesive bandage from his cheek and looked at the cut on his face.

Clumsy - he searched his desk for adhesive bandages.

A nicotine patch looks like an oversized adhesive bandage.

Your doctor will apply pressure to the aspiration site to prevent bleeding and put an adhesive bandage on it.

Children need more adhesive bandages, while an elderly person might need ammonia salts.

Worn like an adhesive bandage, the patch releases small, steady amounts of nicotine into the blood.

An over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy drug which looks like an oversized adhesive bandage.

A small area of scalp atop his head had been shaven clean and an adhesive bandage applied there.

The artificial skin came off like an adhesive bandage, ripping away from my cheek with a good fierce sting.

His right eye was swollen nearly shut with an adhesive bandage over a cut on his eyelid.

Adhesive bandages in a variety of sizes.