news·pa·per
ˈnüz-ˌpā-pər 
ˈnyüz-,
ˈn(y)üs-
1
: a paper that is printed and distributed usually daily or weekly and that contains news, articles of opinion, features, and advertising
2
: an organization that publishes a newspaper
3
: the paper of a newspaper : newsprint
newspapered; newspapering; newspapers
: to do newspaper work
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Examples of newspaper in a Sentence
Noun
He used some newspaper to get the fire started.
She worked for the newspaper for 20 years.
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John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
Even the leading newspaper in France, Le Monde, has invoked the 1948 template as a way of understanding this year’s U.S. presidential election.
—W. Joseph Campbell, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
The no-confidence vote came a day after the university's student newspaper, the Advance-Titan, slammed Leavitt in an editorial featuring a missing person poster.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2024
The newspaper also joked about rats exposing State Department divides over strategic weaponry: conventional broom and mop, or chemical agents.
—Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2024
Additionally, The Star collaborated with local newspapers across Kansas.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
Three other lawsuits have been filed over the raid:one from a current reporter, another from a former one and a third from the newspaper’s office manager.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
The newspaper reported that one of the cars is leased or registered to Rice and that a Dallas police call sheet seen by the newspaper lists Rice as the person who authorities believe was behind the wheel of the Corvette.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
Now, Barbara and I have written 592 columns for this newspaper since 2011.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024
Sam Sifton, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
What trends online, even if artificially driven, helps influence everything from what stories newspaper reporters pursue to which guests radio show producers book.
—P.w. Singer, Time, 19 Oct. 2019
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of the gymnast who newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent reported Putin was planning to marry.
—Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2014
This may seem like an ironic gift for a man who newspaper publishers once railed against as the destroyer of classified ads, a high-margin pillar in broadsheet and tabloid profits.
—Glenn Fleishman, Fortune, 11 June 2018
The old Hollywood’s history of infatuation with newspapering met the new Hollywood’s detestation of Nixon.
—Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017
Noun
My profession and my newspaper, proudly committed to separating facts from fabrication, are at a crossroads of sustainability.
—John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
Even the leading newspaper in France, Le Monde, has invoked the 1948 template as a way of understanding this year’s U.S. presidential election.
—W. Joseph Campbell, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
The no-confidence vote came a day after the university's student newspaper, the Advance-Titan, slammed Leavitt in an editorial featuring a missing person poster.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2024
The newspaper also joked about rats exposing State Department divides over strategic weaponry: conventional broom and mop, or chemical agents.
—Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2024
Additionally, The Star collaborated with local newspapers across Kansas.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
Three other lawsuits have been filed over the raid:one from a current reporter, another from a former one and a third from the newspaper’s office manager.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
The newspaper reported that one of the cars is leased or registered to Rice and that a Dallas police call sheet seen by the newspaper lists Rice as the person who authorities believe was behind the wheel of the Corvette.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
Now, Barbara and I have written 592 columns for this newspaper since 2011.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024
Verb
My friend David Carr, who died in 2015, had a line about newspapering that’s true of cooking as well.
—Sam Sifton, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
What trends online, even if artificially driven, helps influence everything from what stories newspaper reporters pursue to which guests radio show producers book.
—P.w. Singer, Time, 19 Oct. 2019
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of the gymnast who newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent reported Putin was planning to marry.
—Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2014
This may seem like an ironic gift for a man who newspaper publishers once railed against as the destroyer of classified ads, a high-margin pillar in broadsheet and tabloid profits.
—Glenn Fleishman, Fortune, 11 June 2018
The old Hollywood’s history of infatuation with newspapering met the new Hollywood’s detestation of Nixon.
—Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017
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news·pa·per
ˈn(y)üz-ˌpā-pər,
ˈn(y)üs-
: a paper that is printed and distributed usually daily or weekly and contains news, articles of opinion, features, and advertising
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