envelope

Example Sentences

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At a monthly review session, the manager would hand out envelopes containing the workers’ 10% cut.

From The Wall Street Journal

Researchers estimate that only about one percent of the star's original outer envelope ultimately feeds the black hole, producing the faint light still observed today.

From Science Daily

She leads me into the living room and hands me a white envelope.

From Literature

Boring things like, “There are thirty-two million people,” and “Some of Canada’s main exports are timber and aluminum,” and they sent all those facts and figures to me in an envelope.

From Literature

The spidery handwriting on the envelope was the same as that on the magic shop's direction sheet.

From Literature