How to Use origami in a Sentence

origami

noun

• The sculptures open and close like fan dancers and origami.
  — Lance Esplund, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
• These clever kayaks fold up like origami, packing down to the size of a small suitcase.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• The team used a Miura-ori origami fold that occurs in leaves.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2023
• Step 1: Think like an origami artist and fold the T-shirt so the side seams are in the middle and the front logo is folded in half.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 21 July 2017
• Kick back with your crew under origami birds in flight.
  — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2018
• Things just got weirder from there: The 15s looked like origami, while the 19s featured a piece of screen door-like mesh over their laces.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 15 Sep. 2017
• In the origami method, the kayak is usually made from a single piece of thick plastic that folds out to form the boat.
  — Chantae Reden, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2022
• One of the coolest was a compressible tube whose structure is based on origami folds.
  — Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2016
• Use our template as the base of your card, then attach an origami bunny.
  — Good Housekeeping Editors, Good Housekeeping, 23 Feb. 2023
• Our team’s idea was inspired by origami, the art of paper folding.
  — Hanqing Jiang, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2020
• The result is a collection of bags that are durable yet lightweight, with crisp lines and origami-like folds.
  — Linda Immediato, Los Angeles Magazine, 27 Sep. 2017
• Some sari folds need to be held with stitches or pins, others are more free form, like fabric origami for the body.
  — Charu Suri, National Geographic, 6 Oct. 2020
• Full of creativity, Carson likes to learn origami and make all kinds of cool and fun things.
  — The Star, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2024
• Alma of Take Back the Kitchen offers up a little bit of food origami and a great way to use leftover rice and chicken.
  — Kim Walker, Woman's Day, 1 Dec. 2010
• The new, more adept origami design could be like a blueprint for future tiny robots, Zhao says.
  — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 14 June 2022
• His teacher gave him an origami book to keep him occupied and Lang started to fold.
  — Wired, 20 Nov. 2019
• So where do Oru’s origami ‘yaks have a leg up on inflatable options?
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2023
• It’s very cleverly done and some of it has the complexity of origami.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• Amber clutched a wad of tissues as a precaution, then tucked it in the pew, blooming like a white origami flower among the Bibles.
  — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2019
• In Death’s End, Cheng Xin decodes the meaning of one of the fairy tales with the use of an origami boat and is able to unlock the secret of light-speed technology.
  — Zing Tsjeng, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
• Each of the works began as all origami does: with a single piece of paper that is transformed into a thing of beauty.
  — ExpressNews.com, 20 Sep. 2020
• The tarp is like a piece of origami that, combined with a pair of trekking poles, is endlessly modifiable.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 26 Dec. 2022
• The narrow strip of pavement next to the hotel was completely covered by a sea of flowers, cards, origami and posters.
  — Kanis Leung, ajc, 1 Apr. 2023
• And judging by the ombré origami dress that Kelsey Lu wore onstage there last year, the dress code is just as progressive as the project’s conceit.
  — Vogue, 9 Mar. 2019
• The millions of proteins in each of your cells fold into intricate 3D structures, a bit like works of origami.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2021
• As with origami, there are books showing how to wrap gifts in cloth, a gift-wrapping solution in Japan for centuries.
  — Katherine Roth, Twin Cities, 29 Nov. 2019
• Inspired by origami, each design takes on its specific shape through folds that are stitched in place.
  — Carolyn Jung, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
• There were four flat sheets in a bedding origami that had nothing to do with comfort, just picture taking.
  — Christopher Elliott, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2018
• Oru Kayak, the original origami kayak brand, has introduced the Inlet Sport Kayak in a new black hue to their latest fleet of foldable boats.
  — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
• Since then, visitors have placed colorful origami cranes on and around Sasaki’s bronze form.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024