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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of newspaper.

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Examples

  • Mr Dorrit, dressing – gowned and newspapered, was at his breakfast.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • I walked through gloomy streets where every house was shut up and newspapered, and where my solitary footsteps echoed on the deserted pavements.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • In sneakers he passed beneath the twelve damply newspapered birdcages suspended from the rafters.

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

  • He seemed more menacing than the alligator skull atop the bureau behind him or the six-foot snake skin tacked to the newspapered wall.

    Fat Tuesday Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1997

  • But seriously, considering that I have newspapered it merely as means of subsistence, while I was doing other things, I have been very lucky.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

  • Mr Dorrit, dressing-gowned and newspapered, was at his breakfast.

    Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

  • But seriously, considering that I have newspapered it merely as means of subsistence, while I was doing other things, I have been very lucky.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

  • But seriously, considering that I have newspapered it merely as means of subsistence, while I was doing other things, I have been very lucky.

    Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Scottish ski lodge designed by Suzy Hoodless might seem a little more shabby than chic, but we love all the details that went into creating this rustic alpine vibe like the newspapered walls, wooden crate shelving, freestanding metal tub, and punches of French blue.

    Apartment Therapy Main 2010

  • The bathroom is newspapered with Indian marriage columns, so you can read which upper caste Gemini seeks an educated older husband, dowry offered, while washing the juice of breakfast's fruit salad from your hands.

    Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2008

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