shrink-wrapping

Last year when Mount Redoubt erupted again in Alaska, the airline couldn't get its aircraft out of Anchorage early enough and ended up canceling flights and shrink-wrapping planes to keep ash from contaminating instruments and engines.

How One Airline Skirts the Ash Clouds 2010

I took the liberty of slitting the shrink-wrapping and sampled the notebooks.

Gerald Sindell: A Book Worth: How Much Will You Pay For One That Will Change Your Life? 2009

Pepsi said it is also shrink-wrapping its 24-pack of half-liter Aquafina bottles in pallets with no cardboard base pad, cutting 20 million pounds of corrugated cardboard by next year.

Pepsi to Pare Plastic for Bottled Water 2009

And don't forget the shrink-wrapping of those helicopters -- who knows how many -- for that long, salt-free sea voyage home.

Tom Engelhardt: Stuff Happens: The Pentagon's Argument of Last Resort on Iraq 2008

Article VI is a way of constitutionally shrink-wrapping the government.

Balkinization 2006

After college, Karpyk discovered he enjoyed working with kids and had a knack for distilling chemistry concepts from activities such as shrink-wrapping students and exploding soap bubbles.

USATODAY.com - All wrapped up in knowledge 2005

Worse, HPV is passed through skin-to-skin contact, and defies all known means of sexual shrink-wrapping.

Think Progress » Knowledge is Power 2005

He noticed conveyor belts with shrink-wrapping machines and off on the other side of the beat-up warehouse, transparent pneumatic doors leading into a pristine clean room with racks of video-duplicating equipment.

State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

He noticed conveyor belts with shrink-wrapping machines and off on the other side of the beat-up warehouse, transparent pneumatic doors leading into a pristine clean room with racks of video-duplicating equipment.

State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

He noticed conveyor belts with shrink-wrapping machines and off on the other side of the beat-up warehouse, transparent pneumatic doors leading into a pristine clean room with racks of video-duplicating equipment.

State of the Union Brad Thor 2004