paste
noun
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
are pasting
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present progressiveof paste.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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You are apprenticed to a trunk-maker; how, or why, or when, or wherefore, you don’t take the trouble to inquire; but there you are, pasting the lining in the lid of a portmanteau.
From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Charles Dickens
