Sentence examples for in wrappings from inspiring English sources

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Holloway sat on the bench, his left foot encased in wrappings.

In New Zealand, eel is a traditional Māori food, baked in a covered basket or roasted in wrappings made of leaves.

The sculpture went into Warren's coach house for years, and was then loaned to the town hall – dragged the short distance on a trolley hauled by three men and four horses – where it was swathed in wrappings lest it inflame the passions of the soldiers billeted in the town on their way to the Somme.

"These packages haven't been unwrapped since 1915 and some are in wrappings dating back to 1867 so it's quite exciting to unwrap them for the first time - and amongst them I have been discovering unknown Strawberry Bank specimens".

There are curiosities and trophies to be found: a newspaper from 1950 (headline: "Paris Red Flies to Moscow for Tito-Sis Cure"; sticks of explosive in wrappings labeled Dynamite Nobel Inc.; tobacco tins; a shirt.

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Wrap silverware in flannel wrappings.

Yet some sense of the Deep South, dance hall spirit came through, as a swish of a lamé curtain unveiled the models sitting, waiting for their beaus, their hair in Amy Winehouse wraps and their bodies apparently in gift wrappings: see-through cellophane draped as cocktail dresses; or gingham printed on translucent plastic.

The reason for the swaths of rubbish contaminating the city appears to be that, despite the ban on plastics, we are importing far more soft drinks in plastic bottles and foods in polythene wrappings than ever before.

But what makes these tirades so infuriating is that they are cloaked in the wrappings of faux patriotism and the flag, in much the same way that those pathetic patriots, the so-called tea baggers, mask their seditious and treasonous rhetoric under the protection of the very Constitution they wish to violate.

The celebrations were tiring; the gifts I left in their wrappings.

Las Vegas hotels provide what Dave Hickey calls "distinction without a difference": they all peddle the same games, but in different wrappings.

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