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UK
/sˈɛləfˌeɪn/
]
[ US /ˈsɛɫəˌfeɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛɫəˌfeɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a transparent paperlike product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc.
How To Use cellophane In A Sentence
- Immediately she got involved with the scavengers and asked them to collect specific items like cellophane wrappers that cannot be recycled.
- Extension cords that looked frayed or suspicious were bound up in Scotch cellophane tape.
- Problem is, the TV and print commercials use the same old 3-D technology that's been around since the 1950s - "anaglyph" glasses with blue and red cellophane lenses that make your brain re-focus blurry images to lend an impression of depth. JournalStar.com - News Articles
- A whole fresh apple, on a thin stick, is dipped in high-boiled sugar syrup which has been coloured red; and allowed to set before being wrapped in cellophane.
- ‘My guess is that it was double-faced cellophane tape,’ said Tom Julian, a trend analyst with Fallon McElligott in New York.
- The rain's playing muffled kettledrums on our roof, shimmering like sheets of cellophane outside.
- She tore off the cellophane, pulled out a cigarette, and lit it.
- Tearing the cellophane off of the CD, she popped it open and inserted it into the boom box, hitting play and cranking it.
- Every year, thousands of tonnes of perishable goods, from cellophane-wrapped chickens to cardboard-encased ready-made pizzas, end up in the bin.
- I had a lot of time on my hands so I wrapped them in cellophane and topped them off with ribbon. Archive 2008-04-01