What is "newsprint"

Usage examples of "newsprint".

I still had to thread my way through the merrymakers, but I managed to join a crowd clustered around a stall selling skewers of hot meat, roasted chestnuts in newsprint cups, and hot potatoes baked in their jackets.

Their kid leather clutch bags stuffed with crumpled 1955 newsprint, and their morocco-leather-covered diaries with gold-leafed, onionskin pages, remained unopened, un confided in-well, they had had nothing to confide, for their emotional lives had been as stinted of the luxuries of passion and personal dramas as their cool and shallow bathwater had been bereft of emollients and scents.

The papers might be rationed for newsprint, old Troy was not rationed for words.

He collared the nearest trash bag tearing it open, pulling out pages, scraps, fragments of landscapes, coastlines, a palm size scrip of cheap newsprint stapled together in black and blue here, here's one, Genesis to Revelation the whole thing boiled down to ten pitiful little pages of illiteracy and hideous cartoons, here's the creation.

They passed the whacking printingpress, hidden from sight in a culdesac of towering bundles of newsprint.

The sky began to bleach out toward a gray-white newsprint colorlessness.

I should interject that the Lyle County Leader was a four page single sheet, printed on what was then called `boiler plate' - newsprint printed on one side with international and national and state news, and shipped that way to small country papers, who would then fill the inside pages with local news and local advertising.

Individual words and letters had been cut from newsprint and newspaper stock and pasted to cheap yellow copy paper.

About now in a real attack he'd trigger his cannon and a stream of solid slugs would lance the light armor of the Kirov's forward missile magazines, exploding the SAM and cruise missiles in a huge fireball and slicing through the superstructure as if it were thin as newsprint.

He was waiting on the street corner with the newspaper urchins when the bundles of newsprint were tossed on to the pavement from the back of the Mail's delivery van.

It was in the pines, the management of Carlson Publishing Company being strongly convinced that it was just a matter of time before chemists came up with a means of using fastgrowing loblolly pine for newsprint.

Good notepaper was the problem, since the Turkish stuff fine enough for handwriting tended to be expensive, and the newsprint of the time turned into a blotched rag if you wrote on it with anything harder than a feather pen.

I had seen the garbage men chasing scraps of newsprint and fluffs of cigarette ash with little hand-pumped vacuum cleaners, and I had even thought about becoming one if I had to.

In that era, newsprint had such a high cotton fiber content that The Times papers I own could be ironed, sewn together, and bound, good as new.

I managed to join a crowd clustered around a stall selling skewers of hot meat, roasted chestnuts in newsprint cups, and hot potatoes baked in their jackets.