How to Use newsprint in a Sentence

newsprint

noun
  • Some states offer tax breaks for printing ink or newsprint.
    — Corey Hutchins, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • And over time, the smell of the newsprint became like coffee to me.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2021
  • But Tierney had slipped her his email address on a tiny piece of newsprint.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • What kind of artist, through his simple newsprint drawings, could break the heart of a child like that?
    — Chris Ware, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
  • At that time, newsprint was delivered by barge, which would pull up to the building's back dock.
    — miamiherald, 17 May 2016
  • Gray wallpaper rattled in the wind like ashen newsprint in a dying fire.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Or the newsprint leather tote, rolled up to shield a handful of models from camera lenses?
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Summaries can be found in a takeaway newsprint, a website and a series of spot-on lawn signs.
    — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The padding softened the blow a little, but the impact was still enough to knock the air out of her lungs. Gasping, Lauryn scrambled through the greasy sheets of newsprint toward the cement wall.
    — Wesley Snipes, The Root, 27 May 2018
  • Among the products affected were steel, aluminum and newsprint.
    — Corilyn Shropshire, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • Both were well thumbed, dog-eared, the newsprint softened by many hands, and both showed the same photograph on their front pages.
    — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Their newsprint cameo upped the ante; the shakedowns intensified.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
  • Readers are much less reliant on newsprint for their news in today’s internet age.
    — Audrey McAvoy, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Readers are much less reliant on newsprint for their news in today's internet age.
    — CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • New tariffs would be slapped on products from cashews to newsprint to fibre-optic cables.
    — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
  • No one is setting and changing rollers on ink trains or feeding newsprint through massive presses.
    — Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In the event, the new digital records degraded even more quickly than did newsprint.
    — Maria Bustillos, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Keep large bulbs on pre-lit garland safe from breakage by wrapping them in foam or newsprint before storing.
    — Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
  • In the end, fear of retaliation leads him to drop the slip of newsprint down a memory hole.
    — Laura Beers, The Conversation, 9 June 2025
  • In the end, fear of retaliation leads him to drop the slip of newsprint down a memory hole.
    — Laura Beers, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Cox built a newsprint mill in the Augusta area and needed timberland to run it.
    — Thad Moore, AJC.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The story, on yellowing newsprint kept now in a binder, may be as forgotten as the crime that prompted it.
    — New York Times, 8 Jan. 2021
  • Readers immersed themselves in the project in a way that wasn't possible with static ink on newsprint.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
  • But most poignant is a drawing of a man on a sheet of Los Angeles Times newsprint.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Like the pie section, it would be printed on a continuous, four-foot piece of newsprint known as a pano-8.
    — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2019
  • But while the former has proved stubbornly resilient, the latter has crumbled like old newsprint.
    — Gary Abernathy, The Denver Post, 24 June 2019
  • Somewhere in my mid 30s I got fed up of arriving at the office with newsprint on my hands.
    — Katy Thompsett, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Like everything else, the cost of buying our TV listings has gone up, as has the cost of newsprint.
    — Roger Simmons, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Meg stunned in a skintight newsprint catsuit and matching cowboy hat in a photoshoot to promote the album.
    — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The result was so effective that the message of the bombers was undetectable in pictures in newsprint.
    — Randal Doane, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021

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