How to Use newsprint in a Sentence

newsprint

noun
  • And over time, the smell of the newsprint became like coffee to me.
    J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2021
  • Indeed, the smells and smears of newsprint are in decline.
    Tali Arbel, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2019
  • What kind of artist, through his simple newsprint drawings, could break the heart of a child like that?
    Chris Ware, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
  • But Tierney had slipped her his email address on a tiny piece of newsprint.
    Karen Heller, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • But most poignant is a drawing of a man on a sheet of Los Angeles Times newsprint.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
  • At that time, newsprint was delivered by barge, which would pull up to the building's back dock.
    miamiherald, 17 May 2016
  • Like everything else, the cost of buying our TV listings has gone up, as has the cost of newsprint.
    Roger Simmons, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Both were well thumbed, dog-eared, the newsprint softened by many hands, and both showed the same photograph on their front pages.
    Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The Tampa Bay Times is cutting dozens of jobs, citing the rising cost of newsprint due to the Trump tariffs.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Summaries can be found in a takeaway newsprint, a website and a series of spot-on lawn signs.
    Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Or the newsprint leather tote, rolled up to shield a handful of models from camera lenses?
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Gray wallpaper rattled in the wind like ashen newsprint in a dying fire.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • In the photo, the couple posed in a closet, with Haack wearing a black-and-white newsprint mini dress and brown knee-high boots.
    Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • There’s even a Sober Canal: newsprint that seems to spend its pages trying to tamp down the recklessness that Gutes and Banse inspire.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Sprawled on the floor in a heap of newsprint, cutting and pasting found poetry collages.
    Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • Their newsprint cameo upped the ante; the shakedowns intensified.
    Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
  • A few weeks ago, the email addresses that once appeared at the end of every story in the newsprint version of The Post vanished.
    Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Like the pie section, it would be printed on a continuous, four-foot piece of newsprint known as a pano-8.
    New York Times, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The album art features Swift amidst floating newsprint.
    Josh Duboff, Vanities, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The Daily Times ran only one paragraph on the newspaper’s seventh page — 18 lines of newsprint — about the flight.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • In the event, the new digital records degraded even more quickly than did newsprint.
    Maria Bustillos, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The result was so effective that the message of the bombers was undetectable in pictures in newsprint.
    Randal Doane, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • The story, on yellowing newsprint kept now in a binder, may be as forgotten as the crime that prompted it.
    New York Times, 8 Jan. 2021
  • The translucent black-and-white costumes, reminiscent of newsprint, turned the dancers’ loose limbs into pieces of silk.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Among the products affected were steel, aluminum and newsprint.
    Corilyn Shropshire, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • The editor of The Storm Lake Times is cut from the newsprint of journalistic tradition.
    Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The newspapers preferred to stay within a block of the railroad tracks for easy unloading of newsprint.
    Pete Corson, ajc, 14 June 2018
  • Any newsstand or corner deli received copies in the evening, and the Sunday paper, back then, was immense, eight or so pounds of newsprint.
    Alice Markham-Cantor, Curbed, 26 July 2022
  • Readers immersed themselves in the project in a way that wasn't possible with static ink on newsprint.
    The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
  • Shortly after my arrival in Chile in 1971, however, the government blocked El Mercurio’s access to newsprint.
    Jack Devine, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2014

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