contact paper
Americannoun
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Photography. sensitized paper on which a contact print is made.
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an adhesive-backed paper or paperlike product, used to line shelves, decorate surfaces, etc.
Example Sentences
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Shelf inserts in the kitchen cabinets were green and covered with turquoise contact paper, so she took off the paper and covered them with white paint.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2024
“Use contact paper to change the look of kitchen flooring, counters, backsplash and even cabinets,” Fletchall says.
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2022
In spare sentences, she summons the details of minimum-wage life in the last quarter of the 20th century: cans of Aqua Net, Ford Pintos, wood-grained contact paper on toilet lids.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2020
Temporary wallpaper, not the kind applied with paste, offers the ease and flexibility of old-fashioned contact paper, with the look, feel and design of traditional wallpaper.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2018
I look at a blue glitter dot that got stuck under the contact paper.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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