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Example sentences for "pasteboard"

Lexicographically close words:
passyng; passynge; passyon; past; paste; pasteboards; pasted; pastel; pastels; paster
  1. I'll take off my mask in a minute, Arundel," said a faint voice, that sounded hollow and muffled within a cavern of pasteboard and wickerwork.

  2. Miss Laura Clarke, who was the lady in gray, gave Billy a pasteboard box lid of short-stemmed blossoms to play with, and he sat quite content, while the others kept on tying the flowers until only one basketful was left.

  3. Then the Corn Baby was tenderly laid in a cradle Tom had made by gluing two semi-circles of wood for rockers to a pasteboard spool box.

  4. A hairpin was the axle which held the pasteboard wheels in place.

  5. A miniature Santa Claus, a pasteboard monkey, and several other articles of bric-a-brac of the kind the tenement affords, complete the outfit.

  6. One comes forth with a penny goldfish of pasteboard clutched tightly in his hand, and, casting cautious glances right and left, speeds across the way to the door of a tenement, where a little girl stands waiting.

  7. The plaster of the ceiling is held up with pasteboard patches.

  8. Then she prepared another mixture in the same manner, and made a pretence of adding another ingredient from a little pasteboard box, which probably hadn't had anything in it for a month.

  9. Such a shade or screen is most conveniently made of a piece of thin pasteboard or stiff paper.

  10. What he had mistaken for a background of solid truth had proved nothing but pasteboard scenery flooded with a semblance of reality achieved by skillful manipulation of spotlights.

  11. To the last there were certain of the old guard who still remembered them with bits of coveted pasteboard for receptions or marriages or anniversary celebrations .

  12. Fred took the proffered pasteboard and as he did so his fingers closed over Hilmer's mangled thumb.

  13. They fell under his blows like pasteboard puppets--yet they are both strong men, and used to hard knocks.

  14. This is a good cement for artificial flowers, and for ornamental pasteboard work.

  15. The best way of carrying quill-pens is in a pasteboard pen-case, to be had at the stationers for a trifle.

  16. Her grapes are brought in on the cars, put up in pasteboard boxes.

  17. He sent to London for the lenses, which could not be bought at Bath; and Carolina amused herself by making a pasteboard tube to fit them in her leisure hours.

  18. The amateur pasteboard frame did not fully answer Herschel's expectations, so he was obliged to go in grudgingly for the expense of a tin tube.

  19. We forgot to get one in Paris, and sent in hot haste on Wednesday to La Ferté for pasteboard and gold paper; but, alas!

  20. Moors you're knocking down and killing and destroying, but only little pasteboard figures!

  21. But to see him interminably bounding round that floor behind six inches of pasteboard nose!

  22. Heriot, evading his old fingers with wonderful agility, and slipping on his pasteboard nose.

  23. Composition dolls' heads are made of pasteboard from iron moulds.

  24. The pasteboard is placed over a mould representing half a head cut vertically behind the ear, and is then forced by means of a pestle into every crevice.

  25. To take off another shaving, a piece of pasteboard is placed under the plate, by which it is raised a trifle higher, and so again brought under the knife.

  26. The pressure upon this pasteboard flat-iron is to be given by the hydraulic press.

  27. Next, the pasteboard is removed, and the piles of sheets sent into the Folding-room to be folded.

  28. The first cards made were doubtless painted with a stencil; that is, a piece of pasteboard or thin metal plate perforated with holes in the shape of the figures desired.

  29. He saw some round pasteboard boxes, the top covers of which were a dull black.

  30. And they were not very hard ones, for the boxes were of pasteboard and not wood.

  31. Sue could not get out of the way, and a moment later a shower of pasteboard boxes of oatmeal and other things fell all around her.

  32. Later, when she went to Brenda's room to put away some things that she had promised to pack for her, the cover slipped from a little pasteboard box that she had lifted from a shelf.

  33. It's very kind of you," he said, emptying the pieces from the cover into a small pasteboard box.

  34. On this list here--where it has 1963 Kodachrome transparent slides, you have it coded at the top, I have one brown pasteboard box filled with camera film slides.

  35. I'll take her down as low as is safe, and fly over his house, if you'll point it out, and you can drop him a message in one of the pasteboard tubes we carry for that purpose.

  36. One was in readiness in a weighted pasteboard cylinder, and soon it was falling downward.

  37. I don't like that sort of picnicking myself, I like pretty table fixings even if they're only paper napkins and pasteboard dishes.

  38. Real ferns were laid here and there under the dishes of good things, and piles of white pasteboard plates and paper napkins were in readiness.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pasteboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.