How to Use green paper in a Sentence

green paper

noun
  • For a pineapple, use a yellow shirt and craft green paper leaves into a crown or headband.
    — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Use green paper streamers to create a curtain in front of their bedroom door.
    — Amanda Rock, Parents, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Then, place neon green paper inside to really send the message home.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The green paper pass cost five cents, just a penny less than a can of Campbell’s tomato soup.
    — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • There is a wooden bowl, sent by a local church and filled with green paper cut in the shape of leaves, each one bearing a message of comfort.
    — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Next, cut stems and leaves from green paper and form them—with the liners—into picture blossoms on a cardstock background.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
  • Next, cut stems and leaves from green paper and form them—with the liners—into picture blossoms on a cardstock background.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
  • Wrapping Christmas gifts with red and green paper is truly classic—but there's something to be said about going a little out of the box.
    — Sanah Faroke, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Trace your kiddo's arm and fingers on marbled green paper to create this monster hand from Happy Hooligans.
    — Ellen Sturm Niz, Parents, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Large red flowers had been affixed to a basketball hoop behind the stage, with chains of red and green paper streaming down to a platform lined with potted poinsettias and small pine trees.
    — Hannah Leone, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Americans, especially ones who were youngish and worked on computers, were toting green paper bags around coastal cities (and later, smaller towns and non-coastal cities) en masse.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • His brother-in-law is allergic to real trees, so the family set up what Harman described as a really bad fake — the kind with shredded green paper on stick branches.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Stacks of green paper accumulated, detailing hundreds of enforcement matters on which the agency was powerless to act.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2020
  • Those forms, which were printed on green paper, are meant to be used by voters to replace an absentee ballot that has been damaged or lost or in cases where voters made an innocent mistake on their ballot.
    — Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 4 July 2024
  • Drop some dollars during a promotional event period and the cashier will slip you a stack of those green paper slips, typically $10 for every $50 spent.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • Last weekend, her parents taped green paper for a screen on a wall behind their kitchen island, and Jonny sat in front of her computer, acting out her part without ever laying eyes on Joseph.
    — Jean Hopfensperger, Star Tribune, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Poison stumbled upon a victory when the local Sir Speedy print shop unloaded a stash of neon green paper on the band, helping their promos stand out and unwittingly giving Poison its signature color.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Under the tang of hot lye and smeared ink, not more than a thousand copies of Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei were jammed between cheap green paper covers in February 1848.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2023

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