wrapping
Example Sentences
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But every year, as wrapping paper detonates across the living room and a small mountain of objects emerges—some beloved, some baffling—I have the same unseasonal thought: This is wildly inefficient.
Then my mom, who had managed to leave the room sneakily as we tore through the wrapping, came back into the living room with a chubby cat with a bow around his neck.
And they’re almost always the things people talk about long after the wrapping paper’s gone.
From Salon
She said she saw Athena wrapping her leash around an agent’s leg and barking frantically.
From Los Angeles Times
"I'm trying to wrap presents - I hate wrapping presents."
From BBC
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