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 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
Demand for pulpwood—trees unfit for making lumber but fine for cardboard and paper—plummeted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
Cutting and coloring the thin cardboard from cereal boxes to make Mariposa passports for her friends and family.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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