How to Use shrink-wrap in a Sentence

shrink-wrap

verb
  • Humphrey said the game is plastic-free — not even shrink-wrapped.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2026
  • Look like a confident traveler by not shrink-wrapping your bag.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The tins next move down a conveyor belt system, where the liquid cools and hardens before the tins are capped and shrink-wrapped.
    — Gabriella Fine, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2026
  • This method follows the lead of thinner-skinned English cucumbers, which are shrink-wrapped in plastic.
    — Susan Hall Mahon, Southern Living, 8 June 2026
  • The narrative shrink-wraps around them, making an insulated setting feel even more claustrophobic.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
  • His restraint suits a story in which machine-kind and humankind begin to feel shrink-wrapped together, the ghosts belabored by increasing social pressure, the humans jolted by high-voltage wires.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Immediately after Tengbjerg had urged us to respect everyone’s time, a European man told the captive audience about a revolutionary fat-burning treatment, Vacuslim 48, which involved what looked like shrink-wrap.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

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