Example Sentences

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It’s from Etsy and made of crepe paper.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2023

Families put crepe paper on doorways to signal a death inside — and crepe was everywhere.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2020

A few weeks before the big day, each class would usually scope out a barn somewhere and begin tricking out a hay trailer with every piece of crepe paper available in southwestern Ohio.

From Fox News • Apr. 22, 2019

For the 1921 Poppy Appeal, Mrs Powell said her mother Evelyn had to buy red crepe paper to make her own poppies after they quickly sold out of the originals.

From BBC • May 31, 2018

Mr. Reilly had added a new touch to the office the day before, streamers of mauve, gray, and tan crepe paper looped from lightbulb to lightbulb across the ceiling.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole