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Usage examples of unwrap.

She had mailed all three bags simultaneously, the one from the Birth Center, the unwrapped one from the ambulance, and the one she had bribed from the warehouse receptionist.

Of all of them, he lounged at his ease on a couch, dangerous as a hunting leopard, toying idly with the ends of his burnouse that lay unwrapped around his neck.

Strasser deprived himself of the microsecond needed to grab on to a secure hold as the bridge unwrapped itself into the sand.

Charlotte wondered, as the doctor unwrapped the bandages covering her hands and mumbled something about minimizing necrosis and physical therapy.

This is how, we recall, unwrapped strings can yield the zero-mass photon, graviton, and the other massless or near-massless particles, for example.

Godwin unwrapped the tin from a polythene bag that contained its odours and knived chunks of it onto a yellow saucer.

Desdemona opened her silkworm box and unwrapped the white cloth to check on her eggs.

This done, Maxian unwrapped the lantern and sparked the wick to light with a snap of his fingers.

On the third day the trifler is unwrapped and waited upon by a licensed D.

Look at it as they might, wrap and unwrap, twist, twizzle and ponder, it remained as it had begun, an irreducible, if complex, entity.

It held an old bed, a couple of tattered understuffed chairs, a floor lamp, a telephone and a table lamp on a nightstand beside the bed, and a bathroom with pitted porcelain tub, cracked lavatory, and stained toilet, a single towel but no washcloth, and a hand-sized bar of Ivory soap that crackled with age when Johnson unwrapped it.

Now he carefully unwraps the rawhide that binds the spear head into his old haft, and for want of water to moisten it, crams the whole unfragrant mass into his mouth that it may be softened by warmth and saliva.

She took the little package, which was wrapped in a piece of blue silk, from her purse and put it on her pillow while she said her prayers in the dim glimmer of the rushlight, and then, wrapping her nightrail about her and shivering in the unheated room, she tunnelled under the blankets and unwrapped the fabric with some excitement, for she had received few gifts in her life.

Mildred took the grenade from her pocket, unwrapped the tape holding the arming lever in place, then stood and threw the unprimed military charge.

The same reasoning might lead to the conclusion that even unwrapped strings have a minuscule yet nonzero minimum mass.