Example Sentences

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To assist confused loyalists, the grocer has pasted a small sign by the entryway, adorned with the company logo and, in Whole Foods’s signature deep-green text, a reminder to passersby: “We’re Still Here!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

The shop has pasted over its old sign to alert customers that it is now “$1.50 Hot Pizza.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2021

Below these words, etched tastefully in the pedestal, someone has pasted a laminated white sheet of paper with a different Shevchenko selection:

From The New Yorker • Jul. 14, 2015

In less than a year, Mr. Kejriwal, 45, and his party has pasted itself quite literally on city’s consciousness with aggressive campaigns and posters of brooms, symbolizing sweeping away the old order.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2013

She has pasted on a horrible rictus of a smile, but at least she has enough self-possession for that.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black