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a sticky, thin film that is made up of a protein substance and microorganisms that adhere to the tooth- In the lobby, almost the first thing you see, there's a large marble plaque.James Patterson -- 1st to Die
- Walt installs a memorial just inside the door, a simple brass plaque inscribed with a few words.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Perhaps some medical-looking marble frontage with a gold-plated plaque on the wall.Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
- Tonight, Aunt Emily has said a missionary found your name on a plaque of the dead.Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
- On a pocked and lichen-splotched cement wall is bolted a small stone plaque.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- Then her husband, Dr. Larsen, her children and grandchildren present a plaque to Mason.Judy Blume -- In the Unlikely Event
- They lived on the ground floor, and on the doorpost was a highly polished oval plaque with the house number.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- Park His mom always kept her keys in the same place—on a little key-shaped plaque in the entryway that said KEYS.Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
- In the bathhouse, she changed to pajamas, her expression still hard as a plaque.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
- I proudly sat behind the Sierra Leone name plaque, listening and waiting for my turn to speak.Ishmael Beah -- A Long Way Gone
- There is no trophy, no plaque, no certificate, no plate.Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
- The wrought-iron fence held a plaque declaring that this was a San Francisco landmark, erected as an orphanage after the Great Earthquake.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- A funeral plaque with a light hangs beside the door.August Wilson -- Fences
- A gold plaque with "Imperials" faced out the back window.Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
- A bronze plaque next to the door reads War Command.Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
- Beneath her is a large plaque that reads KNOWLEDGE LEADS TO PROSPERITY.Veronica Roth -- Divergent
- When I left the University of Virginia for Carnegie Mellon, my friend and fellow professor Gabe Robins gave me a sledgehammer with a plaque attached.Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
- A plaque inside St. Mary's commemorated the marriage of Lord Clive, and another that of Governor Elihu Yale, who later founded a university in America.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- 600 univs would have bought my daughter a respectable plaque, and I intend to get that money back.Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
- Chief Scipio received his plaque, to applause.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
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