pasting

Example Sentences

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Workers at the Pyroshine factory were now busy pasting wolf-themed packaging onto boxes to be shipped to the United States.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

While pasting the new “Virgencita” poster, she notices an older one of hers to the left — a portrait of transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson — hanging half ripped.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

The U.S. botched copying and pasting a relatively straightforward warship already in service in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

Some are nicknamed jumping genes because they literally jump around, copying and pasting themselves into different parts of our genome just as if they were still viral invaders.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

Francie was sitting at the kitchen table pasting poems in old notebooks.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith