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
It means we say Kindle instead of e-reader, iPhone instead of smartphone and Play-Doh, Sellotape, Pritt Stick and Tippex instead of their generic alternatives.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016
Then he took down the chart, and peeled off the Sellotape from around the edges, so that the sheet of paper came away from its cardboard backing.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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