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In a lab experiment, the insects were able to roll a plastic foam ball underneath an artificial blue flower, climb over the ball and use it to reach the flower, obtaining a sugary reward.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026 Using a roller, roll paint over the plastic foam blocks, and press image onto white art paper.—
Janna Oberdorf,
Parents,
15 Dec. 2025 In 2018, the second-largest Hawaiian island banned plastic foam food containers.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
12 Dec. 2025 The fake pool has been designed to imitate the uppermost twenty feet of the real one as closely as possible, down to the contours of its sides, which are made not from rock but from plastic foam sealed with fibreglass.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for plastic foam