glue

Example Sentences

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“It unifies community. It is the glue of democracy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

These proteins are crucial for maintaining cell-cell contacts -- which glue cells together.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

Mystery vandals have caused almost £40,000 worth of damage to the machines by covering them in glue – weeks before they have had the chance to collect a single charge.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

“My lipstick was glue stick,” she sings in “Lipstuck,” “it sealed my fate, not even able to communicate.”

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

Slivers of gray fish pickled in white glue, smoked fish with yellow eyes that bulged, raw red fish without heads or tails.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord