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.
was pasting
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past progressiveof paste.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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As Ms. Tenon was pasting up her third poster of the night, teaming up with Anne-Elisabeth Ropartz, they heard what sounded like a police siren.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2020
One evening while Father was out and Shirley was pasting clippings in her Dodgers scrapbook, the lights suddenly went off.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
His first job was pasting labels on blacking-pots, for which he received twenty-five cents a day!
From De La Salle Fifth Reader by Christian Brothers
He was pasting his specimens for him and stood a chance of marrying a very plain, pious cousin.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
But did you see the pair of shoes I was pasting the other day?
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
