box lunch
Example Sentences
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“He charged 25 cents, and they got a box lunch in the deal,” says John Murdy, known today as the architect of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023
In her box lunch was a banana, which she ate after watching another passenger peel and eat one.
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2017
SUN Cruise around the Island on the restored 1898 steamship Virginia V, box lunch, no-host bar, fundraiser for Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, 2 p.m.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2017
A cheerful twentysomething in a Hellmann’s T-shirt passed me a box lunch containing a mayo-infused burger, mayo-smothered pasta salad, mayo-lubed corn on the cob, and a mayo-moistened cupcake.
From Slate • Dec. 27, 2013
Most of the kids follow Ms. Cherry into the pizza line, except Chin and I have box lunch.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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