How to Use corrugated in a Sentence

corrugated

adjective
  • Oliveira’s house is built of brick, concrete and corrugated tin.
    — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 6 July 2020
  • But stickers were of no use on her swath of corrugated metal facing the Oculus.
    — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • Two of the bodies had been found in a pit near the cemetery’s entrance; another was laying under a piece of corrugated roof on the road.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
  • While the trend was first fashioned out of corrugated iron sheets, they were eventually constructed out of tin—not to mention mass-produced.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Johnson’s boyfriend built the outdoor shower against the side of the house, making a floor with a wood pallet and walls of corrugated metal, with a blanket and bedsheet draped over the top.
    — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Even so, it's nearly lost in the corrugated expanse of the Medusae Fossae Formation.
    — NBC News, 23 June 2018
  • Built from corrugated cardboard, the drones are designed to be lightweight, inexpensive, and quickly produced in large numbers.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In the living room, your eye is first drawn to the Frank Gehry chairs of corrugated cardboard and the large black Richard Serra painting.
    — Jesse Kornbluth, ELLE Decor, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Built from corrugated cardboard with a water-resistant coating, the drone is lightweight, inexpensive, and can be shipped flat-packed for rapid assembly in about five minutes.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Welcome to Foster City’s new improved levee, fortified by plates of corrugated steel and roughly 6 feet taller than the prior edition.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Even the wine lists are delightful physical specimens, bound in corrugated cardboard in homage to the nineteen-seventies Italian cookbook series In Bocca, and découpaged with psychedelic illustrations from the books.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025

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