How to Use newspaper in a Sentence

newspaper

noun
  • He used some newspaper to get the fire started.
  • She worked for the newspaper for 20 years.
  • Arkansans should be proud of this newspaper.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Your newspaper has jumped the shark.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • That seems a pretty rude thing to write in the newspaper.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
  • In fact, this was the worst thing ever to be in a newspaper.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The day’s newspaper was seized.
    — April White, JSTOR Daily, 20 May 2026
  • Turns out the newspaper has some stories left to tell.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The newspaper had been due to close on May 3.
    — David Bauder, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Catt reads about the murder in the newspaper.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Most people don't read and don't care about newspapers.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Back in the day, many newspapers had marches.
    — Jim Beckerman, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • The newspapers were all over the story.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The woman to my right gave me her newspaper to read when she was finished.
    — Jeremy Rellosa, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2025
  • There's a lot of kindling around, and there's a lot of like newspapers that can catch on fire.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Which, of course, is what happens on newspapers and that’s why all these things sound so phoney.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Her list of sources came to over three dozen books and even more newspaper articles.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • In some places, maybe there would have been a small item, buried in the back pages of the local newspaper.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • No Utah newspaper dared to run the stories, the pair said.
    — ABC News, 10 June 2026
  • His head and arms were wrapped in newspaper and adhesive tape.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 11 May 2026
  • In the background, Biden reads a newspaper across the aisle.
    — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
  • This is a fun novelty for teens who don’t see newspapers the way many adults did at their age.
    — Beth Fertig, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Workers told the newspaper there was just a fist-sized hole for sunlight to come through.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
  • So there was a lot of searching through newspaper archives.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • The next newspaper would not be printed in the colonies for 14 long years.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
  • The newspaper reported that it was set to be opened before the end of year.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2025
  • There were court cases lost, appeals won and lots of newspaper ink spent on the back-and-forth of it all.
    — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Don’t worry about what the newspapers are saying, etc.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • He's got weapons, cash, fast food wrappers, stacks of newspaper, and other stuff all over the place.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Young Gavin chipped in, picking up a newspaper route and a job as a busboy.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026

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