envelope

Example Sentences

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Researchers estimate that only about one percent of the star's original outer envelope ultimately feeds the black hole, producing the faint light still observed today.

From Science Daily

She leads me into the living room and hands me a white envelope.

From Literature

Boring things like, “There are thirty-two million people,” and “Some of Canada’s main exports are timber and aluminum,” and they sent all those facts and figures to me in an envelope.

From Literature

The spidery handwriting on the envelope was the same as that on the magic shop's direction sheet.

From Literature

Just that morning his uncle had complained to his aunt that he couldn’t get an envelope he needed because it was in the den where the boy was sleeping.

From Literature