glue

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Later marketed as super glue, it became widely used in homes, manufacturing and medicine.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

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

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

As Toruño leaves the coffee shop, the glue on the nearby posters begins to dry, and pedestrians slow down to read them.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

It had to be something small, common, and ubiquitous—a tiny dab of molecular glue.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee