wrapping paper
Example Sentences
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But if your elastic wrapping paper has a pattern on it, stretching it this way will distort the pattern, enlarging some parts and not others.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
The only thing lacking was shiny wrapping paper and a bright red bow.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2024
They were mostly cloves separated from their bulbs, some unpeeled, some crushed, the skin hanging off the bulbs like wrapping paper on Christmas morning.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024
She followed me to my room, where a large flat package covered in bright, flowered wrapping paper lay on the bed.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
