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How to use wrap in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Wrap means to enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. Example: “Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper.”

Examples of wrap by meaning

verbTo enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.

  • Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper.

verbTo enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.

  • A snake wraps itself around its prey.
  • The prehistoric caribou they had already liberated was wrapped in a space blanket and carefully tied to a sled.2003, Gary Tigerman, The Orion Protocol, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 143

verbTo finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.

  • To avoid going over budget, let's make sure we wrap by ten. (compare wrap up 2)

verbTo break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line.

  • I wrapped the text so that I wouldn't need to scroll to the right to read it.

verbTo (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.

  • The row counter wraps back to zero when no more rows can be inserted.

nounA large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.

  • He compares the Waymo wraps to Google Doodles, which distract people while they are using a complex and opaque search engine algorithm that is “almost fully beyond our ken.”2025 December 9, Jori Finkel, “How Art Is Driving Waymo’s Feel-Good Branding”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...

nounThe completion of all or a major part of a performance.

  • But she could knock off right after the wrap, have dinner, and take a later flight.1994, Olivia Goldsmith, Fashionably Late
  • The first time I met him is when we went to the – after the wrap party, we went to a little sound room – or a little screening room and watched the preview2003 January 12, “Encore Presentation: Interview With the Bee Gees”, in CNN_KingWknd
  • And that's a wrap on "News Watch." For Judy, Jim, Cal and Kirsten, I'm Jon Scott.2009 November 14, Fox News Watch

nounA complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.

  • When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164
  • Attend a news conference, and prepare a wrap or package.2005, Ted White, Broadcast News: Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 245

More sentences with wrap

  • Wrap the loaf in two layers of aluminum foil before putting it in the oven.From the entry layer
  • I need some sort of cutting utensil to get through this shrink wrap.From the entry cutting
  • Let me wrap up this project before I begin a new one.From the entry wrap up
  • It's a cold, snowy day and I'm going to wrap up thoroughly before I go sledding.From the entry wrap up
  • They're trying to keep the new product under wraps and hidden from their competitors.From the entry under wraps
  • When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.From the entry involved
  • We had to wrap all the breakables before the movers arrived.From the entry breakable
  • Can you pass the sello? We need to get these presents wrapped up by tonight.From the entry sello
  • The reinforcing wire has to be wrapped in tension to be effective in strengthening the main part.From the entry reinforcing
  • He wrapped some fabric tape around the rubber handgrips to make them less slippery.From the entry handgrip
  • He manages to wrap every bit of pork for his district in the flag.From the entry wrap in the flag
  • She has all of them wrapped around her little finger. They'd do anything for her.From the entry wrap around one's little finger
  • When I wrapped him inside my blanket, he looked like a human burrito.From the entry human burrito
  • The girls round the table chewed moonishly, wrapped in their morning stupor.From the entry moonishly
  • She stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her hair turbanwise.From the entry turbanwise
  • In those days, you asked the butcher for a block of cheese, and he wrapped it up in paper for you.From the entry paper
  • To roll up the vase in bubble wrap.From the entry roll
  • Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.From the entry bounce
  • Why does YouTube have a wrapped now?From the entry wrapped
  • The squid wrapped its slithy tentacles around its prey.From the entry slithy
  • He was so wrapped up in watching the incredible special effects that he couldn't keep track of the story.From the entry incredible
  • His cabled muscles wrapped around her body.From the entry cabled
  • Both parties wrap themselves in the flag every election.From the entry wrap in the flag
  • The worker stretch wrapped the pallet of boxes.From the entry stretch wrap
  • I want to learn how to drive a motorbike, but I'm still reluctant to do it just yet; I've got other projects to wrap up first.From the entry just yet
  • Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.2026 May 4, Donald John Trump, Truth Social. From the entry allah
  • “Well, now that we're wrapped up, I gotta do recon for the big mish.2026 March 1, Brett Cawley & Robert Maitia, “The Flume Flume Room” (6:33 from the start), in American Dad!, season 22, episode 2, spoken…. From the entry mish
  • What could be more cynical than a cash grab wrapped up in “never again?”2025 January 28, “The Fall of Goma”, in Council on Foreign Relations. From the entry never again

Meaning of wrap

  1. verb To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
  2. verb To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
  3. verb To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.

Full definition of wrap

Questions about wrap in a sentence

How do you use wrap in a sentence?
Wrap is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper.”
What is a short sentence with wrap?
“A snake wraps itself around its prey.”
What does wrap mean?
Wrap means to enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wrap (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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