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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When young Rockwall entered the library the old man laid aside his newspaper, looked at him with a kindly grimness on his big, smooth, ruddy countenance, rumpled his mop of white hair with one hand and rattled the keys in his pocket with the other.
The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that, when she saw Diana come flying down through the firs, over the log bridge, and up the slope, with a fluttering newspaper in her hand.
The gentleman experienced some change of feeling; he drew back his chair, took a newspaper from the table, and, glancing over it, said, in a colder voice,--
There is Mortimer’s, the tobacconist, the little newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane’s carriage-building depot.
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