How to Use paper in a Sentence

paper

1 of 2 noun

• Be sure to print the letter on good paper.
• The border guards asked to see my papers.
• He scribbled the number on a scrap of paper.
• We'll need pens, glue, and some paper.
• The teacher was busy grading papers.
• She did well on her history paper.
• They published a landmark paper in 1995.
• Years passed and not a single fresh sheet of paper got added to the file.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Press the rest of the dough into a round disk on a sheet of parchment paper.
  — Genevieve Ko, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
• The mom at home had rules and couldn’t cook and stayed up half the night grading papers.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Some — or maybe even all — of the black color should now be in the paper, and your sink should look a lot better.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• Then the guide took out a large sheet of white paper and stepped off the trail, shook a bush and dozens of ticks fell out onto the paper.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 20 July 2023
• Nestled in neat, pleated paper cups, they were often served warm near the end of the meal.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• The best-qualified candidates on paper may not be the best fit for the job.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
• The band teased the album last month with a cryptic ad in the local paper Hackney Gazette.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Sep. 2023
• To speed up the ripening, place mangoes in a covered bowl or paper bag.
  — cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
• Cut pieces of scrapbook paper into squares, and fold them in half.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
• Editing one’s own papers is part of the writing process and therefore part of his job.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 9 June 2023
• Tuesday night, on paper at least, might be their best shot.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• First, paint one side of the fish with sumi ink, place washi paper atop, then use your fingers to press over the surface to make a print.
  — Kaila Yu, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• In the new paper, the team looked at their beaks and stylets–internal shells located near their gills.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024
• Roll out on a floured piece of parchment paper to a little thinner than 1/8 inch.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Pieces of junk — jars, paper scraps, ticket stubs, a nail — are labeled and neatly displayed on the walls.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• From pen to paper to film, five standout original songs are now on their way to the Oscars.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024
• Our Downwind Drop Point breezed through 20 inches of sisal rope and kept shaving paper through 16 of those cuts.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• The book text appears on a white background that’s meant to mimic real paper.
  — Tim Chan, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
• Kate carried their towels and snacks in a paper grocery bag.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Cover your presents in kraft paper, and tie them up with a ribbon of your favorite red and green tartan.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2023
• That’s equivalent to about four sheets of A4 or US letter-size paper.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
• The authors presented the paper to a research group there during an academic seminar last week.
  — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024

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paper

2 of 2 verb

• The Death of Elvis Bathroom is papered with stories of the King’s demise.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2019
• Don’t paper the halls with the news just yet, but a return to Scranton may be in the cards for NBC.
  — Dan Snierson, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• The walls are papered with prayers and more letters, more faces and names of dead women and girls, and so are the glass doors.
  — Rosa Lyster, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2019
• Two large walls in the gallery are papered with photo murals of the artist's studio in Berlin.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Don’t try to paper it over like a moldy wall in a Starbucks bathroom.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2021
• So, take a pen to paper and write down all your fears and anxieties.
  — Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 7 July 2021
• This meeting was not papered in the US press (big surprise...).
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The shoreline along the river is papered with autumn leaves and some of the brightest foliage around.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2023
• In one corner of her studio, the wall is papered with black-and-white printouts of the work of other artists in what amounts to a sort of shrine.
  — Merrell Hambleton, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
• Some walls in the studio are papered to the ceiling with her costume sketches.
  — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• The walls were papered with pages from the October issue, Ms. Moonves’s first as the editor in chief.
  — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
• Three weeks for those who paper file with direct deposit.
  — Sarah Foster, Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2022
• The master bedroom is papered with Chinese country scenes in aqua and white.
  — Sally A. Downey, Philly.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• The Daily Mail owners buy climate change, so why doesn't paper?
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2011
• Roque withdrew the court papers three weeks after filing them.
  — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• If Congressman Kennedy is willing to whack the Speaker over the head with the gospels, then the cracks are becoming harder to paper over.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
• And the way the home is papered and painted is a reflection of Barbara’s love of light, bright rooms and the bright colors found in Latin America.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2018
• But in recent days, the two powers have started to paper over some of those differences.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 6 Aug. 2017
• The floor of the Grand Palais was strewn with browning, fallen leaves and tufts of moss, and surrounded by walls papered with pictures of a bare-limbed forest.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• Brush a few more coats of decoupage medium over papered table to seal surface.
  — Womansday.com Staff, Woman's Day, 26 Mar. 2010
• Discover a landscape of ridges and valleys papered with the vibrant colors of the season.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
• Murphy did not name names and Rylov, who was sitting next to him during the press conference, tried to paper the remark over.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2021
• By Wednesday morning, the glass door was papered, and the restaurant's telephone number removed.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2018
• Sophie Turner is turned off by the weight loss drug ads papering the New York City subway system.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
• Everything from altars to statues to paper goods to tea, all of our huge collections, carts and carts full of goods, just wheeling it with a hand truck.
  — Eva Hagberg, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
• The walls are papered with thousands of vintage photographs of servicemen and women, the sons and daughters of a great nation.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2018
• Bad people give away money, if only to paper their badness.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 21 July 2021
• During his college years, Russ Shubert’s bedroom was papered floor-to-ceiling with U2 posters.
  — Diane Bell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• Warm, ivory-colored painted trim throughout the house creates a thread of consistency, and most of the walls are painted or papered either cream or a soft celadon green.
  — Carolyn Weber, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• The women walked past a bulletin board papered with classified ads for housing programs and apartment rentals.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024