box up
Example Sentences
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Or are they going to open that box up?
From Slate • Sep. 30, 2024
And once they’ve seen you a few times, the old-timers will invite you to sit with them, offer to box up your leftovers and make sure you got enough sauce.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023
Unlike rice or cushions or clarinets, you can’t box up surplus electricity for later.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023
And she would fill that box up with stuff that I wish I could have had!
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2022
Afterwards, we’d checked out the pictures and we’d laughed like usual, but there’d been a kind of hollow edge to the whole thing and we’d shut the box up pretty quickly.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
