Example Sentences

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However, the last-gasp heroics were papering over the cracks of what were often patchy performances.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2024

People were papering over the windows, and the D.J. booth had been set up in the back corner of a room that would grow crowded with 150 people.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2021

"The problem is they thrashed Hamilton and Dundee United at the start of the month and beat Stranraer in the Scottish Cup and everybody was getting carried away. "They were papering over the cracks.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2016

There were papering and painting to be done.

From Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life by Jones, Adele W.

Some of the young men were putting new panes of glass into the windows, others were papering the walls with odds and ends, which had been donated.

From Fifteen Years with the Outcast by Roberts, Fflorens