cardboard box

Noun

Meaning

cardboard box (plural cardboard boxes)

An industrially prefabricated box made from cardboard, primarily used for packaging goods or materials and often recycled.

cardboard-box (plural cardboard-boxes)

(nonstandard) Alternative form of cardboard box

Alternative names

cardboard-box

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Examples

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. Erma Bombeck

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. Ellen Goodman

Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!' Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together. James Patterson

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts. Emma Watson

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage. Jessica Raine

For geniuses, they are really dumb,” she said. "Some of them are really pampered: They can't even put together a cardboard box. They don't think you do something. They think you call somebody. Michael Lewis (author)

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