Sentence examples for wrapped parcel from inspiring English sources

As a teenager she received an extravagantly wrapped parcel which, when opened, revealed a bar of soap.

Afterwards, as I was waiting at the airport to go through passport control, a young Arab woman ran up and gave me a small, beautifully wrapped parcel.

The finished product is meant to look like an elegantly wrapped parcel, which – if you remove the word "elegantly" – mine does.

An elderly lady enters the Ritz every morning at eleven o'clock, receives from a dining-room bus boy a small wrapped parcel, pays for it, leaves the boy a tip and departs to a waiting taxi.

So, each of us slept at night looking like a newly wrapped parcel, a mixture of Sellotape, willpower and hair grips keeping the wing of hair clamped to our heads.

The New Yorker, June 10 , 1939P. 11 An elderly lady enters the Ritz every morning at eleven o'clock, receives from a dining-room bus boy a small wrapped parcel, pays for it, leaves the boy a tip and departs to a waiting taxi.

He stuck stamps on envelopes or sometimes he wrapped parcels.

Mr. Antonakos then reciprocated by sending meticulously wrapped parcels to a few dozen friends.

Line the pan with 2 or 3 cabbage leaves, then add the wrapped parcels.

Blocks of butter and headcheese, a can of raw milk, wrapped parcels, and cured bacons are stuffed onto the shelves around us.

The scene reminded me of toddlers on Christmas morning, tumbling down the stairs, unable to contain their excitement, and tearing into the neatly wrapped parcels under the tree.