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Example sentences for "wrappings"

Lexicographically close words:
wrappage; wrapped; wrapper; wrappers; wrapping; wraps; wrapt; wras; wrasse; wrastle
  1. Your room will soon be ready," he continued, "and meantime you might lay aside your wrappings here if you find them too warm.

  2. Mummy Wrappings from Tomb at Thebes Well Providing Water for Irrigation Sacrifice of the Bull Occupations of Ani in the Elysian Fields An Incident in the Wars of Hartheous and Sit Volume II.

  3. She tore the wrappings of brown paper and newspaper from a little brown box, opened it and drew out a heavy, old-fashioned necklace made of links and twists of gold, with a locket set with rubies and pearls at the end of it.

  4. The writer has known instances where rabbits tore wrappings of building paper from apple trees and in a single night injured hundreds.

  5. Gunny-sack" and other cloth wrappings well tied on are effective protectors.

  6. That this is actually so is verified by the yellowish or brownish discoloration of the wet wrappings and by their offensive odor.

  7. If the object is to lower high temperature, several layers of wet linen should be wrapped around the body and covered loosely by one or two layers of the dry wrappings in order to prevent the bed from getting wet.

  8. If inner congestion is to be relieved, or if the object is to promote elimination, less of the wet linen and more dry wrappings should be used.

  9. But upon the wrappings of the throat I saw the green jasper of the sacred scarabæus shining again like a living eye.

  10. Mrs. Winslow shuddered, drew her elegant wrappings about her fair shoulders, as if the thought chilled her like the sudden opening of some cold vault, and looked appealingly at the two men.

  11. Imogen had led the way into the other parlor while the lady talked, and was now undoing the wrappings of the three silk dresses, and opening boxes of rare, fine lace on the long table.

  12. Tossing off their wrappings as they ran, they trooped into their mother’s sitting-room, adjoining her chamber, where she awaited them.

  13. Ken brought out the cardboard box of wrappings he had found in a closet.

  14. Tiny Mom Allen, in a rustling new housecoat, appeared unaware of even the wild litter of crumpled paper wrappings and ribbons that surrounded her.

  15. The manner and the style are but the natural wrappings in which the goods have been prepared for the market.

  16. He cut the thread and drew from its wrappings a little book bound in red cloth, with the word "Thumbograph" stamped upon the cover, and was beginning to inspect it when Mrs. Hornby rose and stood beside him.

  17. A girl whose creamy body was strangely unsoiled by smoke or grime, whose jeweled breast-plates flashed in the light of her torch while the loose wrappings about her waist whipped against her as she ran.

  18. Soft wrappings of cloth hung loosely from her waist; like her golden hair, it was flung backward in the strong draft of air against which they were struggling.

  19. The first, imperfect and incomplete, is the severance of soul from body in what men call death, the falling away of the gross wrappings of matter.

  20. He turned round and gazed at Meneptah, whose hollow eyes stared at him from between the wrappings carelessly thrown across the parchment-like and ashen face.

  21. So when I came to be buried, Pharaoh, knowing all, took the image from my wrappings and hurled it away.

  22. There in my chamber I slept alone, two handfuls of white bones, since when I died they did not preserve the body with wrappings and with spices.

  23. She waved Her hand to Velasco, and in a moment the violin was out of its wrappings and held to his cheek.

  24. Behind and on top several boxes were strapped, protected from the snow by wrappings of oil-cloth, and on the driver's seat was a valise.

  25. Much surprised, the unrolled the sheepskin wrappings from his legs and got down from his seat.

  26. The blanket wrappings of his feet had already become so worn in traveling over the ice and snow that he could go no further.

  27. When the blanket wrappings were removed from Carse's feet the skin of the soles came with them.

  28. Next morning it is taken from its wrappings and again placed in the doorway until the evening, when it is once more swathed in bark cloths and restored to its usual place.

  29. Wallis Budge, to indicate certain modern African analogies which tend to confirm the view that beneath the mythical wrappings of Osiris there lay the mummy of a dead man.

  30. Presently out from the wrappings he took a very beautiful casket of ebony and ivory, cunningly carved and standing upon four claw-like ivory legs.

  31. I felt strangely disinclined to touch the relic, and it was only after some moments' hesitation that I undid the wrappings and raised the lid of the casket.

  32. Barbe drew her wrappings over her face, as he had seen a wild sensitive plant fold its leaves and close its cups.

  33. He returned, unwinding his saturated wool wrappings and pulling off his cap of beaver skin.

  34. The conviction is borne in upon us that the man was invested while still alive with the wrappings of the dead.

  35. It's the very first time life ever had its wrappings off for her, and that in itself of course is a tremendously good thing.

  36. But you can't, unfortunately, wrap any one up for all those years and then take the wrappings off and not deliver a shock to the system.

  37. I wonder, if Hyde really did put those things there," he said, "how Hyde came to be carrying about with him these sheets of paper which had certainly been used before for the wrappings of chemicals or drugs?

  38. Amarilly took it reverently from its wrappings and held it up to view.

  39. She laid it away in its wrappings to keep until her wedding day.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrappings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.