(1) It's a bandage, it's a sticking-plaster, it's lint, it's gauze, it's cream.

(2) Sue:He's all right, but he needs some sticking-plaster!

(3) Then she put some sticking-plaster round his finger.

(4) Turn out to have been no more than sticking-plaster solutions to fundamental cracks in the traditional career model.

(5) And it bodes ill for financial markets, since neither Europe's sticking-plaster approach to the euro nor America's "jam today, God knows what tomorrow" tactic with the deficit are sustainable.

(6) European leaders have moved from an initial stance of denial about the seriousness of the region's debt problems through a series of sticking-plaster solutions as the rot spread.

(7) Her arm was out of the sling and she had a band of sticking-plaster round her wrist.

(8) He had bruises on his face, a scratch on one of his lips, sticking-plaster on his left wrist and thumb, and a bandage on his right shoulder.