newspaper
/ˈn(j)usˌpeɪpɚ/ verb C2- To cover with newspaper. · She newspapered one end of the room before painting the bookcase.
- To engage in the business of journalism · His newspapered his way through the South on the sports beat, avoiding dry towns.
He/she/it newspapers · Past newspapered · Past participle newspapered · -ing form newspapering
Verb forms
- Base form
- newspaper
- He/she/it
- newspapers
- Past
- newspapered
- Past participle
- newspapered
- -ing form
- newspapering
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“You may think my departure strange and foolish,” said the young man; “you do not know how a paragraph in a newspaper may exasperate one.
The inspector begged the Englishman to seat himself in an armchair, and placed before him the register and documents relative to the Château d’If, giving him all the time he desired for the examination, while De Boville seated himself in a corner, and began to read his newspaper.
Mortimer drew a folded newspaper out of his pocket.
I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.
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