insulating tape
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Amir grew up playing cricket with "tape-balls" - tennis balls wrapped tightly with insulating tape.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2011
It's because the, you know, the one with the insulating tape round his ears who used to play for… Leicester was it?
From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2010
Always carry a roll of insulating tape, or on a pinch bicycle tire-tape will do very well.
From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Eddy, Arthur Jerome
Cleaning this off and protecting the binding parts with insulating tape we managed to get on, the spark being by no means strong, and the reserve battery for some reason weak.
From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Eddy, Arthur Jerome
It might be mentioned that an insulating tape which would be adhesive at minus two hundred degrees centigrade yet keep its properties at plus one thousand, was the near culmination of chemical science.
From Tight Squeeze by Ing, Dean Charles
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