How To Use Cardboard In A Sentence

If only the local toerags sitting opposite knew what thrills these cardboard tubes contained.
The cheapest way I can think of to make people feel like they owe you is to have a crumply cardboard sign saying "Will Work For Food" and hold it up near a busy intersection. Don't Do Me Any Favors, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
A fascinator, for those of you who have been living in a cardboard box under the stairs for the past six months, is a dinky little head piece that is set to knock the traditional big race day hats into a cocked hat this year.
Building cardboard cut-outs into flesh-and-blood characters is a worthy endeavour, but Joe as the ageing Lothario and KC as the young stud doesn't do it.
However once the technology becomes available it will also be used for kitchen waste, such as vegetable peelings, and cardboard.

Actual punishment should only be used as a last resort; a sharp tap with a cardboard strip is quite sufficient.
Eight men shared a tiny windowless area of the fish hold with four cardboard "bunks" resting on planks. Modern-day slavery: horrific conditions on board ships catching fish for Europe
I'd bought a cheap cardboardy case in Perth, plus a skimp of clean clothes, so I could portray respectability. THE TARTAN RINGERS
This is where a drawing is incised into cardboard using a sharp point.
She has come with two friends, one of whom is carrying her dinner in a cardboard box.
He shows me tenrecs in cardboard boxes, housed there temporarily while he cobbles together still more terraria. The Song of The Dodo
I simply place 100 cases in a shallow cardboard tray, and use a spray-on lube before running them through the progressive cycle.
Nestle Rowntree said it was also discarding the plastic disc opening on the old design in favor of a cardboard flip-top lid, as part of a makeover to ensure the brand remained ‘fresh and interesting’ to youngsters.
You're going to need your tiles, tile adhesive (waterproof for wet areas), ready-mixed waterproof grout, masking tape, some matches and some small pieces of cardboard.
We covered the hole with a sheet of cardboard.
He reached into the cardboard box beside him.
By comparison, the reveal of the big villain comes off as both predictable and a little cardboardy. Archive 2010-04-01
He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov. New & Noteworthy
Cardboard collected from local companies is shredded and used for animal bedding on the farm and turned into compost.
I came across a sign the other day, inelegantly scrawled on cardboard and stuck to a telephone pole.
In the studio David Gower, Mike Atherton and Ian Botham lurked around an unusually small cardboard coffee table looking oddly bleached-out, a sense of ghostliness accentuated by the ever-present World Cup logo with its backdrop of faceless, baying cartoon figures set against a glaring firestorm of a sky, like a Soviet-era depiction of some future cricketing apocalypse. India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay
More conventional routes are closed to through traffic by overflowing cardboard boxes.
Mr Short says Barnfield accepts Christmas trees, cardboard boxes and electrical appliances, along with glass bottles and drink cans.
A concept for encouraging the reuse of cardboard boxes, the Box Table is assembled from a pre-printed box with only a few simple cuts and folds. Gretchen | Inhabitat
The work of this course will consist of freehand paper cutting, paper folding, cardboard construction leading toward book-making, weaving, work in raphia, and clay modelling. University of Virginia Record
It's better quality wood for pulp purposes, for making toilet paper or cardboard boxes, if you have a clean plantation wood, than if you have a gnarly beautiful tall old growth tree.
I am tempted to spend a thousand quid on smack, shag a back-street-slapper and spend the rest of my life in a cardboard box - but I do not.
Operation Napoleon works well enough, though its plotting is a bit basic and it has an annoying habit of overexplaining its cardboard characters 'actions. Thrillers – review
The first sign of corkiness is a musty smell reminiscent of wet cardboard.
Ends of the shell are stiffened with laminated timber arches braced by a diagrid of tension cables from which hang enclosing cardboard honeycomb panels.
A large cardboard box will serve the purpose .
He nodded abstractedly, went upstairs to the big, sunny sewing room, searched the family needlecase for a long stiff darning needle and extracted several rubber bands from the red cardboard box on the library table. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life
The cardboard box has my old scale and a bunch of containers of all sizes for samples and for use as temporary aquaria for intertidal snails. Archive 2009-04-01
Follow these detailed steps and you will never have a dry, stringy, cardboardy, boring bird again. ... Turkey Recipes Guide: 12 Recipe Ideas For Cooking Your Turkey
The kit comes complete in its cardboard case, which is given a fabric texture and embellished with gold lettering.
The cardboard tube had been placed between two tins of paint stacked beside her bath. The Sun
It is a padding the color of cardboard and the consistency of styrofoam.
HeyUGuys. com and E1 Home Entertainment have teamed up for a contest to give three lucky winners the chance to win a life-size cardboard standee of Bella, Jacob, or Edward. TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR MARCH 15TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
The duo have dispensed with plastic CD casings and fashioned their covers from stiff cardboard.
Of all my second viewing fluctuations, I'm most pleased to say that the cast entire fares much better when not jumping off the screen like flimsy cardboard cutouts, which is to say that I no longer feel so ungodly embarrassed for the lot of them. Avatar: Notes on a Second Viewing
The ex-husband, on the other hand, is one of those cardboard cutout con artist crooks whose rather simple death is more decent than he deserves.
The simple red brick carries the brand's name and comes in a white cardboard box. Times, Sunday Times
Malasig/EPA Street children slept on a cardboard box as vehicles passed by in Pasay city, Philippines, on Friday. Asia in Pictures
Actual punishment should only be used as a last resort; a sharp tap with a cardboard strip is quite sufficient.
Now, at forty-three, he had to be content with cardboard bloaters!
An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly. MINUTES TO BURN
The entire fantastical creation was crashing about her like a cardboard city in an earthquake. COMPULSION
He said he had hidden in the sand with a cardboard box over his head to allow him to breathe. Times, Sunday Times
Plans are also afoot to introduce a new green bin scheme, which collects compostable waste, including cardboard.
beano" because participants marked cardboard cards with beans. Homepage
Wild boar mask, in order to leave head to the production of cardboard or varnished cloth.
She plucked a spill of burning cardboard off the plate, and putting the reefer to her lips, lit it. EVERVILLE
The concept of a human character has been replaced by a cardboard cut-out, each of which serves one of two purposes: to run away from the dinosaurs or to be eaten by them.
So I made my own, with a piece of cardboard and a sink plug.
Elinor rose, and going to her bag that was still dangling from the chair back where she had flung it in her hurried preparation for dinner, took out a cardcase, and drawing forth three square bits of gray cardboard, handed them to Patricia. Miss Pat at School
Cardboard cutouts of the love rat MP are proliferating.
She will get to make thaumatropes, which are cardboard disks with drawings on them suspended on string.
For this purpose a paper flag, made from a small piece of white cardboard is glued to the dorsum of the mesothorax in about vertical direction.
As I watch them writhe in simulated pain, a young punk comes along and grabs some cardboard from the ground and starts tearing it into tiny pieces.
Last week he tackled the thorny issue of pensions in front of a group of retired folk with the use of cardboard slides to illustrate his points, looking and sounding more like a plodding professor than the next president.
The packaging itself is quite nice, with an embossed Batman leaping out of the front cover of the cardboard box jacket.
I'd bought a cheap cardboardy case in Perth, plus a skimp of clean clothes, so I could portray respectability. THE TARTAN RINGERS
Tonino forced the end of his candlestick down between the battered cardboard edges and heaved sideways at the metal. THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
Deal 12 noble cards face-up in a row and put the cardboard guillotine at the start.
We must recycle the cardboard boxes
Both wormeries got a selection of food this morning - the standard package of kitchen waste and torn up cardboard, some moistened breadcrumbs and some coffee grounds collected from work.
If a rootbound plant is not available, use a tiny clay flowerpot or a small cardboard transplanting pot, a large tangled mass of string stuffed into the pot, and an artificial flower to be inserted into the string mass. Nurturing Spirituality in Children
For this he often uses extremely closed and narrow space like a labyrinth that is made with cardboard. It causes an uncanny experience to the audiences who hesitate ones' next step in the dark space.
Actual punishment should only be used as a last resort; a sharp tap with a cardboard strip is quite sufficient.
Posted June 16, 2009 at 12: 59 pm | Permalink the concept is very good but i saw the product in a bookstore, don’t be fooled, it’s made from cardboard so it’s not really worthed. meridian60 Clock Side Table
One worker said: 'We had to wear the cardboard signs around our necks. The Sun
cardboard caricatures of historical figures
Imagine an HDTV you take home under your arm in a cardboard shipping tube and attach to your wall with thumbtacks or carpet tape.
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I'd bought a cheap cardboardy case in Perth, plus a skimp of clean clothes, so I could portray respectability. THE TARTAN RINGERS
I then suggested a cardboard cut out of Juliet like the ones of Darth Vader and Stormtroopers that Star Wars mentalists have in their kitchens.
The supporting roles are no cardboard cut-outs either with a memorable gaggle of characters like the war veteran arcade owner and Taeko's upbeat girlfriends.
Others favoured a more traditional design using cardboard and green fabrics.
The smile did break as the short-haired boy glanced at the large cardboard box in his lap.
The reports included revelations by a long-term prisoner that senior officials had allowed him and two prisoners, on payment, to spend Christmas eve last year "jolling" on the Cape Flats with a cardboard carton of drugs and liquor. ANC Daily News Briefing
There were cardboard boxes stuffed full of clothes.
There had also been cellulose residue which the lab tech explained away as the cardboard containers in which the explosives had been packed. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Last night I closed the door to the smokehouse where the bloodroot is kept in cardboard boxes, away from the mice and bugs. Excerpt: Bloodroot by Amy Greene
Most of these romantic novels are full of cardboard characters.
In other words, they actually believe that children use cardboard toys to cast spells and foretell the future.
Cut out a piece of cardboard or plastic to fit the inside of the mould and lay it directly on top of the octopus. Times, Sunday Times
So they decided to go out and measure, using a clinometer made out of cardboard, a plastic straw, and a plum line.
It was that rectangular piece of cardboard that musical compact discs used to come in.
A templet of cardboard or a templet drawing is prepared. 6. Turning Technology
Years ago the refuse wagon had a trailer on the back for waste paper and cardboard.
Today it has been pulled apart, the folios bound to a cardboard binder.
Edit 3/31/2010 While The Dakota Cipher was the darkest Ethan Gage, this one is the lightest and pulpiest with mostly cardboard characters, but the one liners, the zaniness and the non-stop action make it an ultra-fun read though it's harder to take it even the little bit seriously for the most part, moving towards comic book territory. Liviu's Anticipated Novels of 2010 - collated post to be referred to and updated frequently as books come
After the first visit, I came home laden with flats and pots and cardboard boxes. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
It is possible that particulars of a machine for cutting strawboard, cardboard, etc., may be useful.
Are the cardboard shapes given a final cut with a bandsaw? VARIANT SHELVES by Daan Roosegaarde | Inhabitat
Each student was given a cardboard base, approximately 25 cm in diameter, and a small block of plasticine clay (non-hardening modeling clay).
Called "The Flat Daddy, " the gift is a life-sized poster that can be pasted up on a cardboard, foam, wood to remind children that their parents always love them.
I made a full-size cardboard model.
Puzzles can be created by saving cardboard packaging from cereal boxes, detergent boxes, soda cartons, etc.
These wacky, often surreal numbers were shot everyplace from the local zoo to minimalist sound stages to colorful cardboard sets standing in for Bombay, London, Hell, or less identifiable realms.
The cardboard tube had been placed between two tins of paint stacked beside her bath. The Sun
The locals are portrayed as credible characters, albeit with their own set of very distinctive idiosyncrasies, rather than the predictable cardboard cut-outs who usually tend to populate such films.
Each unit has little wrinkles at its lip from the paper painstakingly pasted over the cardboard structure.
Using broad, flat white cardboard boxes for pizzas and small waxy paper cartons for chow mein and chop suey, these ethnic restaurants standardized distinctive take-out packaging.
The main structure is made out of wood and cardboard and is covered in plasticine before being painted.
He prepared some thick pieces of cardboard and printed on each card, in large letters, such words as _Bone_, _Food_, _Out_, &c. He first gave the dog food in a saucer on the card _food_, and then he placed an empty saucer on a blank card. Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young
The simple red brick carries the brand's name and comes in a white cardboard box. Times, Sunday Times
All had vivid memories of the bottles with cardboard tops and the perforation in the middle to be pushed open to allow for the straw.
A kind-hearted innocent with a passion for the lives of the saints, Damian is playing in his own cardboard sanctuary when a bag falls from the heavens.
I pushed it onto the floor and whacked it (both in the literal and in the Mafia sense) with a piece of cardboard.
Each cardboard animal is laser-cut for precision and flat-packed to make shipping easier and less wasteful. Jessica Mischner | Inhabitat
In one of the many shelters, a small rusted bell chinked against the worn door with a piece of cardboard with messy handwriting on it that read ‘OPEN’.
The packaging is nice enough, a cardboard sleeve covering the case itself.
The belt and buckle with the aiguillette are still in the original round, black leatherette-faced cardboard container.
A blast furnace so fierce that a fridge collapses in on itself like a cardboard box. Times, Sunday Times
Most live in tenement buildings or cardboard cities. Christianity Today
There were chintz draperies, two armchairs, a loveseat, a coffee table, two large cardboard boxes, and a wall of tastefully displayed urns. NO BODY
Musicians played in a park, using cardboard boxes as sordinos and adapting their music to sounds in the surroundings.
Neither of them wore gear and they were using some sort of strange cardboard contraptions as nets but they were wearing skates and they had sticks in their hands.
Then stick in three crude fins fashioned from pieces of cardboard box wrapped in tin foil. Times, Sunday Times
The violations involved workers under age 18 operating dangerous machinery, including cardboard balers and chain saws.
Go tobogganing: If skiing, boarding or snowmobiling are simply beyond your means, go find a cardboard box and a hill.
Inside his cabin, McAbery reaches for the worn cardboard container that serves as his only toolbox.
Then, cardboard punch cards were the equivalent of today's computer memories and disks. Globe and Mail
They are usually stacked on wooden pallets in cardboard boxes, all aimed at keeping prices low. Times, Sunday Times
They're made of the thinnest cardboard allowable by law, and they always collected pools of unwanted dye at the bottom, and you'd always gets drippy, crappy eggs by the time they dried - that is, if the whole thing didn't collapse and tump all your precious masterpieces to the floor. History abhors a vacuum
Anyway, the new bike arrived this morning, all swathed in cardboard and plastic wadding.
I'll have to wait and see if they get a better grasp on the characters or just leave them as cardboard cutouts.
Other examples in the two inch thick cardboard bound volume include rousing poems exhorting the empire to action, and photos of Egyptian women dressed proudly in traditional garb.
Carefully, you’d write down the numbers on a piece of scratch paper with a worn out half-sized pencil with no eraser you snagged from a little cardboard box on the librarian’s desk. What Are Keywords? « Lorelle on WordPress
The dog-eared flap of cardboard hung on the fence post, stained by a lengthy exposure to the elements.
When my daughter was growing up we had a cardboard template of a big boot print in which we would scatter talcum powder on the carpet making a set of ‘snow’ footprints from the door to the Christmas tree.
His characters prove more than cardboard comedy cut-outs, and the four members of the cast rise to the challenge superbly.
He packs plants in cardboard boxes lined with clean paper and occasionally uses icepacks.
Vince said it had taken a watchmaker 18 months to chisel the pattern out of a cardboard-thin slice of rare earth magnet.
Don't throw that cardboard box away it may come in handy.
I mean, totally apart from the fact that it was like the whole Attic Project was lying there on her bed, all ready for Step 3, it was just an amazing thing to see: an enormous scrapbook covered in purple silk, with thick cardboardy pages full of faded photos and typed letters and fountain-pen-written notes. THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON
The board should be made of three or more thicknesses of cardboard.
Two others were collecting, one with a small cardboard box. LOST CHILDREN
In one corner, underneath a mound of empty cardboard boxes I found a large pile of the exquisite light fittings from the Chinese Room.
The cardboard tube had been placed between two tins of paint stacked beside her bath. The Sun
Children and adults can enjoy sliding down the grassy slopes on cardboard boxes.
I have a large cardboard box the size of a tea chest with an aperture in front which people can see through.
It would become clear that the sausages were in fact ginormous stylized tokotoko rendered in sandwiched sheets of laser-cut cardboard and stained with red ink.
A slice of black bread, supple as cardboard.
It even comes with unique packaging, strangely wrapped in a cardboard slip case and inner artwork that resembles a little starship.
This will rot cooked food, oils, dairy, meat, rubber, cardboard and newspaper.
As a result, the Association had to send along binding material, cardboard, cloth, and paste, so that the POWs could rebind the books once they received a shipment. 6 Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
We are being asked to choose between the cardboard binaries of India Shining and India Whining, the feel-good factor and the all-what-jazz rebuttal.
Maybe so but the cardboard is designed to withstand 140mph winds and when Hurricane Ike passed over the top of my house 16 months ago with 100mph winds, I slept through it and lost but a few shingles and a few tree limbs and a wooden fence. Page 2
Other scenes, such as when a church congregation is urged to pray over a cardboard George W. Bush cutout, are almost too bizarre to believe. Weekly Mishmash: May 31-June 6 : Scrubbles.net
There is a sheet of stiff cardboard in the drawer.
In 1954 I straightened out a piece of corrugated cardboard with a surface area of a square meter.
Upon hearing the news, neighbor Amy Seidenwurm headed over to the store, donned her bee suit, and bravely herded the bees to a cardboard box, transferring them to "greener pastures where the flowers are dripping with nectar and hives are clean and commodious. Boing Boing
Then she wrapped them in blankets and put them in cardboard boxes. The Sun
That dry, sawdusty chicken breast and cardboard salmon you've had is the result of this over reliance on "fire" and "microwaves" for your culinary needs. Cara Parks: The Sous Vide Supreme: At $449, Succulent, or Just Suck? (REVIEW, PHOTOS)
The move could cut the amount of cardboard required to protect home deliveries. Times, Sunday Times
The ambience was mechanical, the chips like cardboard and the bread poor.
The re-enactment prompted a national hysteria of jokes and ridicule calling Mr. Khomeini the "cardboard Imam. Letter Writers Break Iranian Taboo
This also means that my laptop sits between two piles that offer just enough room on either side for the thing to rest on a small cardboard box I use to elevate the rear of the laptop and "ventilate" it. Idea Landing Zone
The tissue-paper plots and cardboard characters are uninspired and repetitive.
She would have to wait in the truck, fanning herself with a piece of cardboard.
He was in Galveston ordering supplies for the ranch, when in passing a shop which he would have called a draper's, but which was there designated as dealing in dry goods, he was amazed to see the name "Danby and Strong" in big letters at the bottom of a huge pile of small cardboard boxes that filled the whole window. Revenge!
He actually had a bed to sleep in instead of matting and a cardboard box.
‘Now it's hugely more exciting than the days of cardboard,’ he gabbled.
The tiny cross-breeds, no more than four weeks old, were dumped by a mystery man seen leaving the cardboard box in a field.
There is a sheet of stiff cardboard in the drawer.
You'd swear he was a cardboard cut-out except that he'd moved his rifle.
These include the oral thermometer, which has a long and slender bulb and is used for taking temperature in the mouth or under the arm; rectal, which is short and blunt with a fat bulb; the electronic thermometer, which is battery operated, portable and used in a variety of areas; the disposable thermometer, which has a sensor strip at the end of a piece of cardboard and is designed to be used once; and the patch, with a sensor strip that can be pasted onto the forehead. EHow - Health How To's
Over sod or very weedy areas, I lay down cardboard then cover it with straw, hay, grass clippings or wood chips.
A cardboard cutout of the skank heiress is being used on lab mice to see if being around humans has any effect on them. Archive 2007-12-09
While the dustcart crept through ‘two-bin Bassett,’ tipping load after load of tins, cartons, newspaper and cardboard into its interior, residents speculated on the pros and cons of the scheme, which sparked a storm of protest.
Rural householders now have a brown wheeled bin, a white bag for cardboard, a green box for cans and glass and a white bag for paper.
The cardboard tube had been placed between two tins of paint stacked beside her bath. The Sun
However, for larger amounts it is much easier to place 50 to 75 cases in a cardboard tray large enough to hold them with some shaking room and then apply a spray-on lube.
The film also resists the temptation to turn Mandras into a cardboard-cut out jilted lover.
Make templet manually of plywood or hard cardboard. Chapter 7
The stadium literally buzzed with proud mums and dads, brothers and sisters waving tinsel pompoms and cardboard placards, and schoolmates excitedly discussing how they would vote.
I was about to give some money to a young lad, then I saw his sign, "Need money to blog" and while I feel sympathic to the compulsive bloggers, it turned me off when I saw the Interac sign on his cardboard. Travelling panhandlers can f--k right off
We spend a lot of time arguing about whether plastic and cardboard cartons are different products. Times, Sunday Times
Winston walked past me in the den with a giant cardboard box full of Christmas lights that he took outside.
Cycadales, ‘true cycads,’ are still with us and are represented by the common sago palm and the cardboard palm, often seen as decorative indoor plants or in outdoor gardens in the southern United States.
These wacky, often surreal numbers were shot everyplace from the local zoo to minimalist sound stages to colorful cardboard sets standing in for Bombay, London, Hell, or less identifiable realms.
The family live a shiftless existence, ‘doing the skedaddle’ from place to place when the bills mount up, sleeping in cardboard boxes and finding their best food source in dustbin leftovers. The Glass Castle « Tales from the Reading Room
Plenty Coups, who did not write English, kept accounts on pieces of cardboard with drawings denoting customers' names and marks indicating the money they owed.
It was a large, lidded cardboard box, close to the Royal Mail size limit, very white, gift-wrapped in beautiful blue ribbon, and exceeding light.
An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly. MINUTES TO BURN
With the discovery of amianthus, we came up with the idea of setting up an amianthus cardboard industry in the city of Traipu in the state of Alagoas.
Some bundles of cardboard are bound in a way that airlines can use them as ballast, an extra weight required when the plane doesn't have enough cargo or passengers.
By stepping through the reveal of Giacomo Rossi-Stuart's doppelgänger, I noticed that the green light that suddenly illuminates the side of his face flares up a beat or two after he turns to face the hero -- as if it was already on, waiting for a piece of cardboard to drop away, or a lighting "barndoor" to open and expose it. Archive 2007-01-28
Anyway, the new bike arrived this morning, all swathed in cardboard and plastic wadding.
We spend a lot of time arguing about whether plastic and cardboard cartons are different products. Times, Sunday Times
Shelving and drawers are made from recycled paperboard and industrial shipping tubes, and wastebaskets from corrugated cardboard.
I broke these wood laths over my knee and nailed them onto the cardboard to make a frame.
He's a one-note – one dimensional cardboard figure. Outspoken sheriff won't run for governor in Arizona
With the mirrors facing inwards, tape the 3 cardboards together to form a triangular container.
So it must have been gremlins that filled my rubbish bin with pieces of torn cardboard and disposable coffee cups.
Round the corner is a place that sells old furniture and reconditioned fridges and ovens, all plastered with neon cardboard stars, scrawled with marker pen prices.
Outside men held cardboard signs pleading'Does anybody have a spare ticket? Times, Sunday Times
Pupils recreated an Olympic stadium and dressed up in toga-like costumes, which are known as chitons in Greek, or armour made out of cardboard.

How To Use Cardboard In A Sentence

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