WRAP in a Sentence

Learn WRAP from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For WRAP, below is one of 222 sentences:
She help me and I eat alone; and then we wrap in fur and lie beside the fire, and I tell her to sleep while I watch.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of WRAP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wrap
 v.  enclose; arrange or fold as a cover or protection
Classic Sentence: (197 in 14 pages)
1  In her top drawer was a handkerchief just like this, one that Rhett Butler had lent her only yesterday to wrap about the stems of wild flowers they had picked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  She picked up Ellen's Paisley shawl to wrap about her but the colors of the faded old square clashed with the moss-green dress and made her appear a little shabby.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  Give me another mite of that pone before you wrap it up.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Hunting for a rabbit's skin to wrap my little Bonnie in.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
5  And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
6  He was all that she had to look to, and if he failed she would be lost; he would wrap his arms about her, and try to hide her from the world.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  They would wrap up in all they owned, but they could not wrap up against exhaustion; and many a man gave out in these battles with the snowdrifts, and lay down and fell asleep.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but when they came to wrap it they would stamp some of it "special," and for this they would charge two cents more a pound.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
9  There, wrap her in them Indian cloths.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
10  Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  She help me and I eat alone; and then we wrap in fur and lie beside the fire, and I tell her to sleep while I watch.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  Yes, that would serve to wrap the dreadful thing in.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
13  And the fluid, male knowledge of herself seemed to flow to her from his eyes and wrap her voluptuously.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  And if you're in Scotland and I'm in the Midlands, and I can't put my arms round you, and wrap my legs round you, yet I've got something of you.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
15  Show me the way to your town, and let me have anything that you may have brought hither to wrap your clothes in.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VI
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  US scientists develop edible wrap made of fruit, vegetables.
2  I will wrap the baby before taking her out.
3  She attempt to encase each bill or portion of a bill in plastic wrap for preservation.
4  Serve or wrap individually in wax paper for storing.
5  You'd better wrap a clean cloth around your arm till the wound closes.
6  Mexican Indians used to wrap tough meat in leaves from the papaya tree.
7  NATO defense ministers wrap up their meeting in Brussels today.
8  The boy could be seen with his legs wrapped around the trunk.
9  A human form lay there, wrapped in a shroud.
10  Each apple was individually wrapped in paper.
11  The parcel was wrapped in plain brown paper.
12  She wrapped the present and tied it with ribbon.
13  He wrapped the present in pretty paper for his girlfriend.
14  I have wrapped the parcels and they're ready to be posted.
15  The ancient Egyptians produced fabrics from flax and wrapped their mummies in linen cloth.