Example Sentences

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Some of the bowls still had stains on the outside from spills and dripping mummy wrappings.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 1, 2023

So indeed, Miss Manners would consider festive wrappings out of place.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2022

Instead she suggests people spend more time reconsidering their travel habits "rather than agonising over wrappings and eliminating every last piece of waste from contraception".

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2021

The videos show old grocery store food, including breads and packaged food, being ground up and mixed in with the feed — with the plastic wrappings still intact as the processed food is ground up.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2021

Lifting it from the detritus, she ripped aside its wrappings, revealing leather covers, edges stained with age, clasps that locked all its secrets inside.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee