Sellotape
Britishnoun
verb
Example Sentences
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He gifted her and her siblings a cheap "little perfume", wrapped with "so much Sellotape, you couldn't get into it".
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
It looked like my old school shirt when I petted our dog, before my mother wrapped her hand in Sellotape and pulled the fur from the white cotton.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020
“No piece of Sellotape strikes me as an adequate marital partner,” she said.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2018
The back had been sealed with Sellotape and signed by Mourinho.
From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2015
It was a flat packet wrapped in clear plastic and stuck with Sellotape.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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