cardboard
Example Sentences
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“Too often a place will just send up a cardboard shopping bag with the things you ordered in it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
At a number of locations, diners can request a coop—a cardboard box—where they can put their phones while they eat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
At the edge of the crowd, a clutch of children were all drawing flamingos on a long piece of cardboard on the ground, and many people held pink flamingos on sticks.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
This is because the cardboard box blocks out the surrounding sunshine and allows in only light from the direction of the eclipse.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
It was close and airless in the church before the female mourners got their cardboard fans going.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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