Sentence examples for wrappings- from inspiring English sources

"What did you notice about her?" "She was carrying a box, a rather large box, and it was wrapped, Christmas wrappings, and it had something that protruded at one end of the box".

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.

Durham became a place of pilgrimage, and Cuthbert's relics competed with those of the later Thomas à Becket in Canterbury.In this section Little platoons on a slow march The fire this time Holy writ The next generation The cost of ageing Knocked opportunities Britain: shaken but not broken ReprintsEncased in its leather wrappings, Cuthbert's gospel was protected from misadventure.

Among the more notable examples were the American Robert Smithson, who frequently employed earth-moving equipment to alter natural sites, and the Bulgarian-born Christo, whose "wrappings" of both natural and man-made structures in synthetic cloth generated considerable controversy.

Its Latin name comes from the name Perez, which was written on the torn wrappings of the manuscript when it was discovered in 1859 in an obscure corner of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

For shipping and handling under severe climatic conditions, suitable ventilated plastic or paper wrappings are required to prevent corrosion.

On the king's head was a magnificent golden portrait mask, and numerous pieces of jewelry and amulets lay upon the mummy and in its wrappings.

Many spiders inject venom into their prey to kill it quickly, whereas others first use silk wrappings to immobilize their victims.