glue

Example Sentences

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“It unifies community. It is the glue of democracy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

These proteins are crucial for maintaining cell-cell contacts -- which glue cells together.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

"They were the life and soul of the party, they were the Queen & King of our family. They were the glue that held us all together."

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

“My lipstick was glue stick,” she sings in “Lipstuck,” “it sealed my fate, not even able to communicate.”

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

Art supplies sat in organized piles on tall shelves—paint, colored pencils, construction paper, glue, and a myriad of other things he didn’t recognize but couldn’t wait to inspect.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai