How do you use Envelope in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like container or gasbag, plus the exact meaning.
Envelope meaning
- A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
- Something that envelops; a wrapping.
- A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
Synonyms of Envelope
Using Envelope
- The main meaning on this page is: A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing. | Something that envelops; a wrapping. | A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
- Useful related words include: container, gasbag, performance capability, operating capability.
- In the example corpus, envelope often appears in combinations such as: the envelope, an envelope, envelope and.
Context around Envelope
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 13 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Envelope
- In this selection, "envelope" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, unmarked, double, lower, system, pressures and provided stand out and add context to how "envelope" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a double envelope system in and a giant envelope then a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "envelope" sits close to words such as filters, hungarian and inflicted, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with envelope
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Each kind used a thin gastight metal envelope, rather than the usual rubber-coated fabric envelope. (16 words)
Place the voted ballot inside the envelope provided, sign the envelope and return – your postage is paid! (17 words)
An absentee ballot is placed in an envelope, whereas a mail-in vote is enclosed in an envelope. (18 words)
One used to have to stick Lundy stamps on the back of the envelope; but Royal Mail now allows their use on the front of the envelope, but placed on the left side, with the right side reserved for the Royal Mail postage stamp or stamps. (46 words)
In that year George Wilson in the United Kingdom patented the method of tessellating (tiling) a number of envelope patterns across and down a large sheet, thereby reducing the overall amount of waste produced per envelope when they were cut out. (41 words)
For instance, if you pay for diapers from the same envelope as personal care items like toilet paper or sanitary pads one week, don’t switch it up the next week and use your child care envelope to buy diapers. (40 words)
Place the voted ballot inside the envelope provided, sign the envelope and return – your postage is paid! (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
The special voting process involves using a double envelope system in which the marked ballot of the voter is placed in an unmarked envelope which is then placed inside a second envelope which contains the voters’ ID.
This consisted of a circuit to extract the envelope of the pulse, another to extract the derivative of the envelope, and finally another that subtracted the derivative from the envelope.
Typically the airship has an extended, usually articulated keel running along the bottom of the envelope to stop it kinking in the middle by distributing suspension loads into the envelope, while also allowing lower envelope pressures.
For instance, if you pay for diapers from the same envelope as personal care items like toilet paper or sanitary pads one week, don’t switch it up the next week and use your child care envelope to buy diapers.
When she opened the envelope and saw they were custody papers from Sudeikis, whom she split from in 2020 after nine years together, Wilde put the papers back in the envelope and said, “OK, got it.
An absentee ballot is placed in an envelope, whereas a mail-in vote is enclosed in an envelope.
Place the voted ballot inside the envelope provided, sign the envelope and return – your postage is paid!
There is a place for people who push the envelope—American history is moved forward by people on all sides of the political spectrum who pushed the envelope.
Only after verifying that a voter has not cat two ballots is the ballot slip removed from the second named envelope and the original unmarked envelope is mixed in with other ballots to ensure anonymity of the voters.
For example, I typed “address an envelope” and chose the “Envelope” result, and the screen you use for addressing envelopes appeared.
One year after that unforgettable envelope snafu, Kimmel says he's still unclear about how the wrong envelope got into Warren Beatty's hands.
The postal cover envelope super-scribed (on the envelope) as “Application for the post of Lower Division Clerk in V.O. Chidambaranar Port Trust”.
Any handmade envelope is effectively a lettersheet because prior to the folding stage it offers the opportunity for writing a message on that area of the sheet that after folding becomes the inside of the face of the envelope.
A wave packet has an envelope that describes the overall amplitude of the wave; within the envelope, the distance between adjacent peaks or troughs is sometimes called a local wavelength.
Each kind used a thin gastight metal envelope, rather than the usual rubber-coated fabric envelope.
Envelope The envelope itself is the outer surface, usually surrounding one or more gas-bags or ballonets within it.
For example, in the last list one could imagine their dog inside of a giant envelope, then a black cat eating an envelope.
In that year George Wilson in the United Kingdom patented the method of tessellating (tiling) a number of envelope patterns across and down a large sheet, thereby reducing the overall amount of waste produced per envelope when they were cut out.
It is reported that, on the occasion of one visit with Briand, Zaharoff surreptitiously left an envelope on Aristide Briand’s desk; the envelope contained a million francs for war widows.
One used to have to stick Lundy stamps on the back of the envelope; but Royal Mail now allows their use on the front of the envelope, but placed on the left side, with the right side reserved for the Royal Mail postage stamp or stamps.
Common combinations with envelope
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the envelope 93×
- an envelope 28×
- envelope and 19×
- envelope to 13×
- envelope of 11×
- envelope in 11×
- envelope is 6×
- envelope but 6×
- envelope with 6×
- gaza envelope 5×