Example Sentences

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Tech likely will paper over those cracks for the time being.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Tuesday’s news will paper over all of this in-fighting for a time.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2023

The timing will paper over the losses from the virus, which has killed around 44,000 people in New York state, including concentrations in some New York City neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2021

Whether a fertile land, and the industry of its inhabitants, would not prove inexhaustible funds of real wealth, be the counters for conveying and recording thereof what you will, paper, gold, or silver?

From Querist by Berkeley, George

I tell you what to do, Randall," quickly thought out Frohman, "if Stetson will stand for it we will paper the house to the doors.

From Charles Frohman: Manager and Man by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick