How to Use pasting in a Sentence

pasting

noun
  • Copying and pasting is more compact but doesn’t include any dates or images.
    — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • Bobbitt said the issue may have been with incorrectly copying and pasting numbers.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The Beavers scored touchdowns on six of their first seven drives on the way to a 42-0 pasting of Idaho.
    — oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2021
  • While playbooks often yield some results, no amount of copying and pasting will lead to your particular breakthrough.
    — Lindsay Tjepkema, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • To be clear, do yourself a favor and don’t ruin your March by copying a pasting a Golden bracket.
    — Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Save your capture as a PNG or JPG, or copy it to your clipboard for quick pasting.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This was software that could automate repetitive tasks, such as cutting and pasting between database programs.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
  • There’s also smart pasting in Microsoft Word, where users who paste content in will get a series of prompts about improving it.
    — John Werner, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The win followed a pasting of the Red Wings in which Jeremy Swayman picked up his second win of the season.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Yet in some situations copying and pasting won’t be a good idea, because of the following differences between the two mediums.
    — Robert Hellmann, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The platform also enables professors to track the websites students visit during their exams, and bar them from functions like copy / pasting and printing.
    — Monica Chin, The Verge, 29 Jan. 2021
  • Friday’s 86-70 pasting by Wisconsin won’t help their seeding, and most likely will affect where they’re sent.
    — Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The Ravens had taken a pasting on the first day of DeCosta’s first free-agent period as top decision-maker.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Press Taylor dazzled with 27 points and six assists in a 20-point pasting for Farmington (5-0).
    — Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Boston attempted 60 threes in five regular-season games and won three of them, including in a 23-point pasting of the Knicks on opening night.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 6 May 2025
  • Agents have the ability to take actions and perform work autonomously, similarly to a human, such as by opening applications, copying and pasting, etc. Language models combined with agents will create artificial general intelligence (AGI), an AI that can do almost anything a human can.
    — Briar Smith, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • This would have involved combining several negatives, either by printing them together in a darkroom or cutting and pasting and then rephotographing them.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Last season, the illusion of parity vanished when the Liberty put a 48-point pasting on the rebuilding Sun.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
  • After sitting out three games due to a swollen thumb, Sosa hit two home runs and drove in five runs in the Cubs’ 10-2 pasting of the Florida Marlins.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Davis started only against left-handers at Seattle, but contributed his first homer of the season in Monday’s 11-1 pasting, which might earn him more playing time soon.
    — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Taking the Notre Dame brand on the road is now a global initiative, and the school all but took over the city of Dublin in the run-up to a 42-3 pasting of Navy last year.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The only other employee with any journalism experience is Mare (Chelsea Frei) who spends her days copy/pasting Wire articles.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The clipboard manager is so fundamental to the operating system that cutting, copying, and pasting are probably the first three basic computer commands that most people learn.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The week after your party just took an off-year pasting for, among other things, having the wrong priorities seems like a highly unusual moment to grant symbolic pardons of wildly controversial figures.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 11 Nov. 2025
  • More than a decade later, the artist has amassed an inventory of thousands of his signature pink sheep, from palm-sized stickers slapped on lamp posts on Melrose Avenue to wheat pastings on walls along Hollywood Boulevard.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Parmar also deliberately streamlines clinic notes by encouraging his providers to avoid the common habit of copying and pasting blocks of obsolete or redundant information in favor of quick updates that can be scanned easily at subsequent visits.
    — Helen Ouyang, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The first of those three was a 112-88 pasting of the 76ers in the 2023 East semis, during which Tatum went off for 51 points while Embiid shot 5-for-18.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 1 May 2026
  • Transfers that could happen Arsenal gave Leeds United a pasting in the Premier League on Saturday, cantering to a 4-0 win at Elland Road, but there was bad news at the end of it.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Whatever pearl-clutching resulted from Friday night’s 11-4 pasting by the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 of the 2025 World Series was short-lived.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 26 Oct. 2025
  • So, Michigan State closed out the afternoon session with a 92-67 pasting of North Dakota State, skipping up the exit ramp to their locker room – first door on the left – just as the Wolverines exited next door to stretch in a small holding area.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026

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