How To Use Papering In A Sentence
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Papering the ceiling proved next to impossible without a ladder.
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We're papering the bathroom.
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As finances permitted, in the living room and one bedroom the dark and tattered wallpapers were stripped and a decorator skilled at papering scrim walls put up new wallpaper.
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It is peppy, but not too peppy, giving us a sense of their controlled lifestyle and tediousness - this is the couple who is spending their vacation refinished furniture and wallpapering the guest room.
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In part, it's through feel-good news pictures papering over the disconnect between gestures of austerity, displays of simplicity, and a radical agenda to unfetter the corporate state to a stunning degree.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: GOP '11: Corporate Stalking Horses Disguised as "Average Joes"
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You can suggest getting them off real football and on to synthetic soccer substitutes such as futsal or basketball, but that is just papering over the cracks.
Football addicts will take whatever junk they can get | Harry Pearson
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I knew I wasn't going to fix it up by sandpapering it or refining it anymore.
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I saw a preview, in which a few rough edges still required urgent sandpapering.
The Sun
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However, the task will probably mean that the affected walls will need replastering, repainting, or wallpapering once the new plaster boards have been fitted.
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If you are papering over paint, first clean the walls with sugar soap to make sure the paper sticks.
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We botched our first attempt at wallpapering the bathroom.
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Pankburn works ten hours a day removing rust from 150 fathoms — 900 feet — of rusted chain, chipping and sandpapering every link, painting every link with two coats of black lacquer.
“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
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Jonathan's good at wall - papering but he's not so handy with a paintbrush.
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Gerry's ship had been in the Albert Dock and they had just finished papering the front bedroom.
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Or are they just sandpapering over the cracks ...
The Sun
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He fell into newspapering by dawdling over greasy saucisson and a piece of bread.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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But except for a few spots where the music gallops and dies abruptly, Brooks has done a miraculous job of sandpapering and spackling the holes left by the 10 songs (only King's sweet one remains).
A Musical Loses Its Voice
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It is hard to think straight when you have got a wire poking into your sensitive breast meat or part of the strap across the back is sandpapering its way through your back.
Archive 2008-01-01
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We need to discuss disagreements honestly without papering over the cracks.
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We need to discuss disagreements honestly without papering over the cracks.
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Try for that “wheeze-box on fire” sound –- the one that sounds like someone sandpapering an elbow.
Buzzine » Comedy By the Numbers
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Papering the ceiling proved next to impossible without a ladder.
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The council have sent out plasterers but I send them away because I don't want it replastered and papering over the cracks.
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This custom wallpaper is more expensive than some readymade wallpapers, but you can stretch your decorating budget - and give the one-of-a-kind look more prominence - by papering partial walls or a single wall.
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And it is the necessary cutting machine for the enterprise engaged in printing. papering, paper tray, carton fibration and leatheroid, etc.
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The introduction of papering techniques whereby the wall rather than the paper is pasted has made hanging the wallpaper less fraught with peril than it used to be.
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The best parlor is a little, dingy room, low of ceiling, and skirted with a sombre-colored surbase, above which is papering, the original color of which it would be difficult to discover.
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
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Jarred from their place by the impact when the boat struck, and papering the cabin sole with vital, unused information was a welter of neatly rolled charts which he trampled in his haste.
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We botched our first attempt at wallpapering the bathroom.
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In truth, more money in the teachers' pay packets is only papering over the cracks, not attacking and solving the real problems.
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Wiping up sawdust, on the shop workbench, from drilling or sandpapering is easy.
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The politics of the next few years will feature a bunch of wealthy men shutting down SureStart centres, ending Child Trust Funds, sandpapering down tax credits, and increasing unemployment.
Johann Hari: This Is Not What the British People Voted for
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If papering and painting, or kalsomining are to be done, do the last named first.
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He said that they got lots of complaints that they were papering over his faults and mistakes and glorifying his presidency.
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Consensus is viewed as a way of lending authority to the Fed's policy decisions and also shields the central bank from political interference by papering over ideological differences.
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Be sure to prime or size any newly applied drywall compound before painting or papering.
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If you are wallpapering a room that flows into another, make sure that the wallpapers in each room flow together.
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Be sure to prime or size any newly applied drywall compound before painting or papering.
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He fell into newspapering by dawdling over greasy saucisson and a piece of bread.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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After separation they were again placed together to harden under pressure, when the final operations consisted of bevelling the teeth on wheels covered with sand-paper, rounding the backs, rounding and pointing the teeth; after which came the polishing, papering and putting in boxes.
Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls
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I think that the motivation of all of this development work in Africa, it's about a particular vision of a globally just society; it's about a sense of profound responsibility for each other, and the unity of the Church in that context doesn't mean papering over the cracks in an institution just so people hang on to their jobs and their structures, it means keeping open the networks, the channels that exist between different parts of the Communion so that this kind of resourcing can go on.
Reflections on Angola, Africa and the Communion
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Now, whenever I go out on the porch I remember how rusty and pitted the railings used to look and how it bothered me, and the several hours I spent sandpapering it smooth, then the three coats of brown Rustoleum I applied, and now I'm watching it get whiter and cleaner with every new layer of paint I apply.
A Productive Day
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The introduction of papering techniques whereby the wall rather than the paper is pasted has made hanging the wallpaper less fraught with peril than it used to be.
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Papering the ceiling proved to be impossible without ladder.
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Firstly, I came home from yoga & a coffee with my mother to find a rather large box had been delivered by the postie (luckily, my builder friend was here wallpapering in my hallway, so it didn't get taken back to the PO substation).
Raiders of the Box Swap
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They were papering the dining - room.
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Perhaps most worrisome is the idea of sandpapering away personality traits that not only make us individuals, but which evolved for a good reason.
One Pill Makes You Larger, And One Pill Makes You
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Critics of government policy argue that the new measures introduced to fight crime are simply papering over the cracks.
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So for the ILO to endorse "jointness" in this environment is worse than merely papering over the misdeeds of thousands of supplier factories producing for the big brands.
CounterPunch
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He goes up to the flat and sees two workmen papering the walls.
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Papering the ceiling proved next to impossible without a ladder.
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All process sandpapering and making hole took about half of hour, so it is not such a big deal.
Chopsticks, chopsticks!
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Wiping up sawdust, on the shop workbench, from drilling or sandpapering is easy.
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So it might make sense -- not so much as a moral matter but as a practical one -- to do some sugar-coating, some sandpapering of rough edges, some scattering-around of pillows.
Ethics and IQ, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
