How to Use paste in a Sentence
- Stir the flour and water to a paste.
- Stir the ingredients to form a paste.
- The children used paste and construction paper to make Mother's Day cards.
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Coat the grates with the paste.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 12 June 2026
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Rinse away the paste with a damp cloth.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Nov. 2025
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Use a clean damp cloth to wipe the paste away.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 June 2026
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It’s made with dashi (soup stock) and miso paste.
—Carrie Madormo, Health, 29 Dec. 2025
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The meat should still look like ground beef, not paste.
—Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 27 Aug. 2025
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Use the paste to clean solid gold.
—Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026
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Wipe off the paste with a kitchen towel.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
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Allow the paste to sit overnight.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2026
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Use a clean damp cloth to remove the paste.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2026
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To a medium bowl, add the sesame paste.
—Jen Lin-Liu, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
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Apply the paste to spots or buildup.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 4 June 2026
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Discard the paste in the trash.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2026
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Let the paste sit for five to ten minutes.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
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Spread the paste over the bathtub ring.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026
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The paste should be thin and spreadable.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 6 Feb. 2026
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Spread the paste over the turmeric stain.
—Aliyah Rodriguez, The Spruce, 8 Apr. 2026
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The same is true for most paste-type tomatoes.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2026
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Stir in the tomato paste and coat the onions well.
—Mary Ann Esposito, Boston Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
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Mix with a bit of water to make a thick paste.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 11 Feb. 2026
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Scrape bowl; beat in eggs and vanilla bean paste.
—Erin Hooker, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Sep. 2025
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Rinse off the paste with hot water, then dry.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Jan. 2026
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Slather the paste onto the stain and let sit overnight.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
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Dip a microfiber cloth in the paste and blot the stain.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 15 Feb. 2026
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Forget strips, gels, and pastes.
—New Atlas, 27 Jan. 2026
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Add 1 teaspoon of salt and mash to a paste.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
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Let the paste sit for a few hours or overnight if desired.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 May 2026
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Use a toothbrush or shoe brush to clean the soles with the paste.
—Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
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Either paste the wall or peel and stick.
—Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2026
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Don’t copy and paste your resume.
—Colleen Batchelder, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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There is always a new poster ready to be pasted.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026
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But core values can’t be copied and pasted.
—Jayson Jenks, New York Times, 8 May 2026
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Copy and paste from this list of senior year captions and watch the likes roll in.
—Seventeen, 25 July 2022
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Another cuts and pastes her face next to a noose and a smiley face.
—Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2024
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If not, copy and paste the article in and ask the same question.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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Then copy and paste the selection into a text file, note or email.
—Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2025
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No systems or deeds from the past can be copied and pasted into our own time.
—Adam M. Carrington, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
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The con artists paste photos of of for-sale items from other websites.
—Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2022
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Once flat, use craft adhesive to paste the leaves onto plain place mats.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
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There is a little bit of cut and paste in there, there’s a little bit of collage.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
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No seed phrase pasted into Notes.
—Hadley Stern, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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No need to copy and paste into Google Translate.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
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Add the styling powder to dry hair and then run a dime-sized amount of pomade or paste through the hair to shape it.
—Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 18 Apr. 2023
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Dan could see no footholds ex‑ cept a crystal shaped like a domino pasted onto the rock.
—Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
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Kids can even paste in photos, tickets and more and store the rest in the journal's back pocket.
—Elizabeth Berry, Good Housekeeping, 23 Aug. 2023
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Her husband was a bear — wild, panting, with sweat pasting his T-shirt to his chest.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
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The tutors paste an image of a word on one side of an index card and spell out the word on the other side.
—Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
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Someone got the bright idea to cut and paste everything together as a duet.
—Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
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On the front of the card, write your guest's name in calligraphy, and paste the cluster of yarrow next to it.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
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Purchase the digital template, then print it out at home to paste, cut and build your costume.
—Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2023
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Late that night, Weschler pasted his fresh photos into a notebook.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2024
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In the case of the one depicting a man and a woman, the researchers tweaked the image to paste grins on them.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2026
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If a field calls for something from your résumé, copy and paste it to help both recruiters and screening systems.
—Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
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Having to give them permission to copy and paste every single time can be a nuisance.
—Jacob Siegal, BGR, 19 Sep. 2022
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Pages from a book about samurai are pasted on a wall in the samurai booth, where a red lamp glows dimly over the table.
—Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
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Simple repetition does not work with qubits, because they cannot be copied and pasted.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2025
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Just copy and paste the offending email address into the search bar and batch delete everything that pops up.
—Boone Ashworth Lauren Goode, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024
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His job was to cut and paste responses from scripts his scam bosses generated.
—ABC News, 30 June 2026
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