How to Use lath in a Sentence

lath

noun

• On ice, trailbreakers cut slots with chain saws and hammer the lath in with an ax.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
• Painted on the lath-and-plaster wall were two murals of unknown vintage.
  — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 28 Jan. 2018
• In the master bedroom, Hebert and Woehrmann filled five trash bags with original lath pieces removed from inside the walls.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• Over time the plaster separates from the lath, creating structural cracks.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
• In an older home (pre-1960), the walls may be be built with plaster and lath, which is much more difficult and too costly to navigate around, compared to drywall.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2018
• Tucked behind a white picket fence, the two-story house features lath and plaster walls, oak wood floors and picture windows that bring garden views inside.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2020
• Some older types of plaster and lath are all but impossible to drill through with anything other than a masonry bit.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2013
• The lath, in particular, is so far deteriorated from water damage that most, if not all, will need to be replaced.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2022
• The clear blue autumn sky was occluded by low ceilings and heavy beams; in places, early evening sunlight shone between the unplastered laths of the home’s interior walls, travelling from one room to the next.
  — Geoff Manaugh, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019
• In homes built prior to about 1960, the interior walls and ceilings would likely be built with plaster and lath, which is much more difficult, messy, and expensive to cut into in order to run the ductwork.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2019
• Corbett, a general contractor, used lath left over from renovations at his 1906 farmhouse.
  — Ryan Miller, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2020
• For something grand, something spectacular, head over to the Botanical Building with the Lily Pond dramatically reflecting its wood lath structure.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2021
• Aaron Benson’s scenic design is a beautiful and chaotic vision of decay: two towering tenements whose brick walls are stripped down to their wooden lath, with battered plaster that doubles as projection surfaces peeking between the bricks.
  — cleveland, 11 Mar. 2020
• Overhead, wisteria-laden laths shot through with light cast zebraic arrays of shadow, constantly shifting — another Killingsworth trademark that turns the house into a protean phenomenon.
  — R. Daniel Foster, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
• Chemical analysis of the glass identified minerals only found in extraterrestrial rocks and minerals, such as cubanite, troilite, pyrrhotite lath, or calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024