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shrink-wrap

NOUN
  1. the clinging transparent plastic film that is used to shrinkwrap something

How To Use shrink-wrap In A Sentence

  • We couldn't even take a reporter's notebook inside: Instead, Applied's staff gave us a shrink-wrapped, specially sanitized clean-room notebook and clean-room pen to use.
  • The magazines came to me in shrink-wrap, my name shining out in glossy black or blue or pink. The Mother Garden
  • Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
  • Now, I'm very soft-hearted and happen to know that my meat appears by special act of creation divinely shrink-wrapped on Tesco shelves.
  • She reached in and took them out and worked away at the shrink-wrapping plastic with her nails until she could free them. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • I took the liberty of slitting the shrink-wrapping and sampled the notebooks. Gerald Sindell: A Book Worth: How Much Will You Pay For One That Will Change Your Life?
  • Chicken trucked in before dawn to Hays Market by farmers from the countryside—birds that tasted more like bluegrass and wild chicory and wet earth, more like chicken, than the shrink-wrapped little cadavers from Perdue. Day of Honey
  • Worse, HPV is passed through skin-to-skin contact, and defies all known means of sexual shrink-wrapping. Think Progress » Knowledge is Power
  • I have had a shrink-wrapped haggis in my fridge for at least a year.
  • Article VI is a way of constitutionally shrink-wrapping the government. Balkinization
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