How to Use wallboard in a Sentence

wallboard

noun

• The reasoning here is that closed-cell gives off too much heat to spray behind the wallboard, but open-cell does not.
  — Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
• Next door, at 111 Pearl, wallboard was starting to be installed on the upper floors.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• The state spent almost $6 million to seal the brick building, replace the roof and remove wallboard and carpet that had been damaged by leaks.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• The state spent nearly $6 million on repairs to seal the building, replace the roof and remove wallboard and carpet that had been damaged by leaks.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• If any cash-flow problems loomed, word had not reached the workers who bustled around the house on Tuesday, repainting the stoop, doing wiring and installing wallboard.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• Their pale fluctuating grids are made from incised wallboard whose tiny squares have been stained different shades of gray.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 25 May 2017
• Prices and availability of wood, steel, wallboard, copper and PVC piping, cement, and paint make building tough to keep on track and expensive to do.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• More than half was turned into other materials such as cement, grout and wallboard.
  — Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 7 Dec. 2021
• His 12-year-old son, Isaiah, had spent the previous day ripping damaged wallboard from neighbors’ houses.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• The mounting tape should not be applied to wallpaper, wallboard, plaster, or veneer surfaces.
  — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
• The reports included photographs of foundation fractures and cracks in wallboard and tile.
  — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Oct. 2021
• The old concrete-block-and-wallboard storage building, approximately 36 feet long by 30 feet wide, was cluttered at one end with paint cans, carpentry tools, a chair and a rusting garage heater.
  — Michael Futch, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2020
• The piles up and down this street, and along many other nearby streets — shards of wallboard and mildewing carpet, artificial flowers and computer monitors — stand taller than some people.
  — John Schwartz and Alan Blinder, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• Demand for lumber, wallboard, insulation and the like typically follows a pattern, Shute said.
  — NBC News, 5 Sep. 2021
• Makers of chemicals, cat litter, fertilizer, paper, wallboard and steel have told investors over the past few weeks that lower gas bills are easing cost pressures and bolstering profit margins.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 28 June 2023
• Several searchers walked carefully in the midday heat Sunday atop a pile of wallboard, framing timber and personal effects, including a big chair and carpeted climbing structure for pet cats.
  — Scott Calvert, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2018
• Still others often penetrate deep into wallboard, drapes and upholstery.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Mar. 2020
• But some interior damage occurred, such as wallboard seams separating and the water tank valve malfunctioning.
  — Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2020
• Profits are being pinched at businesses ranging from beer-box makers and wallboard manufacturers to bitcoin miners, and higher costs are trickling down to prices for consumers and putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.
  — WSJ, 27 May 2022
• The white-colored material, which looks like the clean gypsum used in wallboard, contains measurable quantities of radium, uranium, thorium, radon, and a variety of toxic heavy metals.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• The family was still consigned to five rooms upstairs, and Ms. Swanson, 48, a senior executive assistant at an industrial automation company, was downstairs watching a YouTube demonstration of how to hang wallboard.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• And owners must address visible mold by using dehumidifiers, fixing structural problems, using bleach and replacing porous surfaces like wallboard that have become moldy.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Firefighters said they are particularly worried about fire risk before the installation of interior wallboard, sprinklers and alarms that help protect residents.
  — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
• The vibrations coming through the ceiling will be almost impossible to mitigate without opening up the ceiling and putting in vibration-dampening, then installing soundproofing insulation and wallboard — a very daunting challenge.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2021
• Asbestos has been used for decades in insulation and fireproofing materials, automotive brakes and textile products, and cement and wallboard materials.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Foundation Building Materials Inc., a distributor of items including wallboard, metal framing and ceiling systems, has filed for an initial public offering.
  — Josh Beckerman, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2017
• Impressively, all students are receiving vocational education instruction in tool identification and use, tool safety and basic construction skills, framing and wallboard installation.
  — Maj. Gen. Laurie Hummel | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024