coin box

Example Sentences

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Gerald R. Ford International Airport is adding coin boxes where travelers can drop their money instead of putting it in a bowl and then scrambling to retrieve it after a security check.

From Washington Times

Upon their release in the fall of 1972, Mr. Dabney said, the machines became so popular that several of them stopped working because their coin boxes grew overstuffed with quarters.

From Washington Post

The Kenosha couple is charged with theft and entry into a locked coin box.

From Seattle Times

Some older customers hear the "ticking" sound of the old coin box and are taken back to their childhood, he adds.

From BBC

That does not include perks, like Christmas “bonuses”, excursions to the beach for gangsters and their families and pocket money that couriers swipe from drivers’ coin boxes.

From Economist