How to Use pasting in a Sentence

pasting

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• The Beavers scored touchdowns on six of their first seven drives on the way to a 42-0 pasting of Idaho.
  — oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2021
• The win followed a pasting of the Red Wings in which Jeremy Swayman picked up his second win of the season.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
• Cutting and pasting is a common way to distribute spam.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 10 Aug. 2020
• Copying and pasting is more compact but doesn’t include any dates or images.
  — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
• The normal checkout process for an item involves a lot of navigating and pasting of saved data.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2022
• The Ravens had taken a pasting on the first day of DeCosta’s first free-agent period as top decision-maker.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• Davis started only against left-handers at Seattle, but contributed his first homer of the season in Monday’s 11-1 pasting, which might earn him more playing time soon.
  — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• Yet in some situations copying and pasting won’t be a good idea, because of the following differences between the two mediums.
  — Robert Hellmann, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• The platform also enables professors to track the websites students visit during their exams, and bar them from functions like copy / pasting and printing.
  — Monica Chin, The Verge, 29 Jan. 2021
• The clipboard manager is so fundamental to the operating system that cutting, copying, and pasting are probably the first three basic computer commands that most people learn.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 31 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024