PASTE in a Sentence

Learn PASTE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for PASTE, such as:

1. The age of miracles is past.
2. He barged past me to get to the bar.
3. Time past cannot be called back again.
4. The film looks back at Spain's glorious past.
5. His face turned to a semblance of gray paste.

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 Meanings and Examples of PASTE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
paste
 v.  join or attach with or as if with glue
 v.  cover the surface of
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The soldiers mixed their ration of corn meal with water, and salt too when they could get it, wrapped the thick paste about their ramrods and roasted the mess over camp fires.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  We've got three thousand dollars of it in Pa's trunk this minute, and Mammy's after me to let her paste it over the holes in the attic walls so the draft won't get her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  Scarlett, you mustn't give the money to Mammy to paste in the attic.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  When she took the paste out to bake it, she left smears of dough sticking to the sides of the measure, put the measure on the shelf behind the stove, and let this residue ferment.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
5  His face turned to a semblance of gray paste.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  The youth's fingers had turned to paste upon the other's arm.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
7  A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies the fiat lux.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
8  But ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
9  His hands, of which he took little care, were the despair of Aramis, who cultivated his with almond paste and perfumed oil.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
10  This paste in the tin is no doubt the luminous mixture with which the creature was daubed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
11  And all because she will not find a beggarly sum which she could get by turning her diamonds into paste.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
12  He raised the cover and saw a kind of greenish paste, something like preserved angelica, but which was perfectly unknown to him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
13  I ground and beat them between two stones; then took water, and made them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire and eat warm with milk.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
14  Inside was a green paste, waxy in lustre, the odour curiously heavy and persistent.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
15  Not a soul did I meet all the way down, though a cab or two went past me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  I admit that I have made mistakes in the past.
17  Time past cannot be called back again.
18  The age of miracles is past.
19  You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.
20  Stories about his past are flying around among the students.
21  We did an analysis of the way that government money has been spent in the past.
22  The president deployed the weapon with which he has calmed past discontents, saying he would announce his heir-apparent.
23  She snarled abuse at anyone who happened to walk past.
24  The article was a savage attack on her past actions.
25  Children challenge their parents' authority far more nowadays than they did in the past.
26  Back to have in the past, returned to the original.
27  The film looks back at Spain's glorious past.
28  The ball went past the batsman and hit the stumps.
29  He nudged the ball past the goalie and into the net.
30  He barged past me to get to the bar.