Example Sentences

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They were pasting a huge colored poster to a signboard.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

The electric signs were pasting lurid legends on a long suffering sky; the taxis were spraying throats with gasoline; the traffic cop at Broadway and Forty-second Street was madly earning his pay.

From Seven Keys to Baldpate by Biggers, Earl Derr

These they were pasting together like rolls of tape, the coloured edges of the paper forming concentric patterns on the resultant discs—an infinite labour.

From African Camp Fires by White, Stewart Edward

In the halls they were pasting up bulletins:

From Ten Days That Shook the World by Reed, John