Sentence examples for wrapped in a box from inspiring English sources

"People now expect that something you buy online should be nicely wrapped in a box and sitting on your doorstep 48 hours later.

The former politician and media pundit Sir Clement Freud was today wrapped in a box and delivered to St Andrews University by the Royal Mail.

In fact it's joyless mass of dry cake polluted with the unpleasant bits of dried fruit that even your Nan wouldn't eat, dusted with a cloying layer of elderly icing sugar and wrapped in a box with a ribbon.

So why does a program like Windows 98 (about $90), recorded on a single CD-ROM, arrive wrapped in a box that measures 8 inches by 10 inches by 2 inches and include a manual, a clutch of coupons and a cardboard stiffener folded with origami cleverness?

Or if you buy a clothing item make sure it's wrapped in a box or shopping bag.

"We have had to ensure that the projector is wrapped in a box-like contraption, with a built-in dehumidifier," sighs 42-year-old Beaumont, who herself is jauntily wrapped in a tasseled, yellow silk scarf, frayed denim jacket, rhubarb-red Bollywood skirt and an air of restlessness.

The problem is that the recession excuse is a stink bomb wrapped in a Tiffany box.

She takes revenge on him by sending him and his wife "Hairball", wrapped in a candy box.

But the nostalgia goes way beyond a sandwich that, as tradition mandates, is cut into eight pieces and wrapped in a cake box.

She described to Vogue how the news was broken to her by her modelling agency IMG, when the contract was presented to her wrapped in a gift box.

I do not care if the carrier could provide full 3G service to a phone wrapped in a lead box and buried 10 feet underground – making a smartphone without WiFi is like making a camera without a flash.