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How to use paste in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Paste means one of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry. Example: “Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.”

Examples of paste by meaning

nounA hard lead-containing glass; an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

  • Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s.2023 March 10, Alex Vadukul, quoting Nan Goldin, “Nan Goldin Is Ready for Oscar Night”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

verbTo strike or beat someone or something.

  • He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23

More sentences with paste

  • Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.From the entry cut
  • First copy the files, and then paste them in another directory.From the entry copy
  • Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste.From the entry consistency
  • Copy the hyperlink and paste it into an email.From the entry hyperlink
  • Text entered at the keyboard or pasted from a clipboard is sent to the component which currently has the focus.From the entry focus
  • Cut out the letters and paste them on the poster.From the entry cut out
  • Their sandwiches are portuguesified by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.From the entry portuguesify
  • Their sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.From the entry lusitanize
  • The blades chopped the waterfall of cooked corn paste, spitting hot debris up into Dusty's fur.2021 August 31, Christian McKay Heidicker, Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City, Henry Holt and Company (BYR), →ISBN. From the entry shink
  • Draw a slice of anpan to show the red bean paste filling.2020, Six Pommes, How to Draw Almost Everything: An Illustrated Sourcebook, volume 2, Quarry Books, The Quarto Group, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry anpan
  • Anpan was a sweet Japanese bun filled with anko, a yummy red-bean paste.2020, Shauna Holyoak, Kazu Jones and the Comic Book Criminal, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN. From the entry anpan
  • If you send it to me, I’ll copy and paste it into the page.2017, Donna Alward, chapter 7, in Somebody’s Baby (A Darling, VT Novel), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry proofread
  • Frills of seaweed carry the heat of tobanjan, the spicy Japanese bean paste.2015 June 23, Pete Wells, “Restaurant Reviews: Noreetuh and the Eddy in the East Village”, in New York Times. From the entry tobanjan
  • Paste up some inspirational slogans or cartoons that bring a smile to your face.2011, Max Messmer, Job Hunting For Dummies, →ISBN. From the entry paste up
  • "Prahok" is the paste of fermented fish, and is one of the Cambodian staple foods.2008, Neth Baromey, “Contexts of Livelihoods in BTC and SS Core Areas”, in Ecotourism as a Tool for Sustainable Rural Community…. From the entry prahok
  • About twenty minutes later, add the sausage, bracioles, and the paste.2007, C. A. Parente, Are You a Fool, Benucio?. From the entry braciole
  • It is then covered with a thin layer of lime paste.2006, M. R. Narayan Swamy, New Delhi, page 31. From the entry paan
  • Sealants (sealing materials) and compounds (filling materials) are thick-flowing pastes which solidify in the cold.2006, Khananashvili, Mukbaniani, Gennady Zaikov, Elementorganic Monomers: Technology, Properties, Applications. From the entry thickflowing
  • In fact, many Websites offer free JavaScripts that you can just cut and paste into your website.2005, Al Kernek, Put Your Business Online, 2nd edition, Pacifica Endeavors, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry javascript
  • They then smoothed and softened the wood by covering it with paste.2005, Charles Kahn, Ken Osborne, World History: Societies of the Past, Portage & Main Press, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry woodblock printing
  • Umbria is rich in paste, pizze, savoury torte, minestre and polenta dishes.2004, Anna Del Conte, The Classic Food of Northern Italy, page 203. From the entry pizze
  • Handwriting adds a personal touch and allays suspicion that you cut and pasted a breakup.txt file.2000, Lynn Harris, Breakup Girl to the Rescue!: A Superhero’s Guide to Love, and Lack Thereof, Back Bay Books, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry penpersonship
  • About all you need to do is paste up the finished art for the printer.1997, Raymond Kimber, Quality Management Handbook, Second Edition, →ISBN, page 246. From the entry paste up
  • They can paste the result onto art paper of a contrasting color for a truly beautiful effect.1983, Barbara Pronin, Substitute Teaching: A Handbook for Hassle-Free Subbing. From the entry art paper
  • Inside the Bible's cover is pasted a bookseller's label identifying the article: “A Smuggler's Bible.1966, Joseph McElroy, A Smuggler's Bible, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →ISBN, page 327. From the entry smuggler's bible
  • The man shouted and Justin obediently opened his mouth to receive the sticky gobbet of paste.1962, Ian Brook, The Black List, page 48. From the entry gobbet
  • Some crib notes were submitted attached to all manner of haberdashery and footwear (usually pasted on insteps).1956 May 28, “Spanish Cutlets”, in Time. From the entry crib note
  • Cut a noodle paste into small squares measuring three to four inches on a side.1941 July, Marie Alexandre Markevitch, “Everyday Menus”, in The Epicure in Imperial Russia, San Francisco, Calif.: The Colt Press, →OCLC…. From the entry nalisnik
  • Elinor said: "One used to be rather afraid of eating fish pastes.1940, Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress: A Poirot Mystery, page 92. From the entry ptomaine
  • Pastes which are ointments but contain far more powder, are sometimes superior.1918, The Ophthalmic Yearbook, volume 14, page 167. From the entry heatingly
  • The favourite professional mountant was, and to some extent still is, starch paste.1911, Bernard Edward Jones, Encyclopedia of Photography, reprint edition, published 1964, →ISBN, page 365. From the entry mountant
  • Tiny and pretty, these little rose jam–stuffed rugelach are found in Poland with or without an almond paste filling.2025 October 14, Laurel Kratochvila, “Rose and Almond Jewel Rugelach: Rogaliki z Różą i Migdałami”, in Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and…. From the entry rugelach
  • Paste Magazine opted not to put a byline on its harsh review of Swift’s album, citing safety concerns for the writer.2024 April 22, Matt Stevens, Shivani Gonzalez, “Taylor Swift Has Given Fans a Lot. Is It Finally Too Much?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry byline
  • Red bean paste (azuki), refined sugar, mochi rice cakes, and flour are often used as the main ingredients for wagashi.2023, Kaeko Chiba, The Japanese Tea Ceremony: An Introduction, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry wagashi
  • You could just make the coconut rice in Melissa Clark's new recipe, flavored with scallions, cilantro and green curry paste.2023 January 13, Emily Weinstein, “What I'm Excited to Cook This Year”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry must-try
  • “Perhaps she is mistaking salmagundi for Solomon Gundy, a kind of pickled fish paste from Jamaica.” I listened intently.2016, Dorothea Jensen, A Buss From Lafayette, BQB Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry solomon gundy
  • Crouched down in the corner, I rapidly tongue knifeful after knifeful of the thick, bitter paste into my mouth.2016, Lisa Kotin, My Confection: Odyssey of a Sugar Addict, →ISBN. From the entry knifeful
  • So now the world is aware that "lean finely textured beef" is actually an alias for "ammonia-soaked centrifuge-separated byproduct paste".2012 March 28, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart (actor), Comedy Central. From the entry lean finely textured beef

Meaning of paste

  1. noun One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
  2. noun Pastry.
  3. noun One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.

Full definition of paste

Questions about paste in a sentence

How do you use paste in a sentence?
Paste is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.”
What is a short sentence with paste?
“Copy the hyperlink and paste it into an email.”
What does paste mean?
Paste means one of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.

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