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

At twelve years of age, Charles Dickens was pasting labels on blacking-boxes; his father was in prison.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Hubbard, Elbert

"I saw some beauties when I went to the paperers to get some flowery papers for James to cut out when he was pasting decorations on to our Christmas Ship boxes."

From Ethel Morton at Rose House by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

Mrs. Laue was pasting pressed flowers; the fried potatoes were sizzling in fat, the lamp in the hall was smoking, and the poor people's odour greeted all who entered its realm.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann