packing case

NOUN
  1. a large crate in which goods are packed for shipment or storage
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How To Use packing case In A Sentence

  • Years go by and the books are still in the packing cases, the shelves still empty. Times, Sunday Times
  • Later on, when I was well enough to wash myself in the bathroom, I found that there was kept there a huge packing case into which the scraps of food and dirty dressings from the ward were flung, and the wainscotings were infested by crickets. How the Poor Die
  • A discarded packing case divided into several sections and covered with cretonne makes an ideal magazine file.
  • Musicians still play the cajon, the wooden box used as a drum, which originated with fruit packing cases. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wooden packing cases, logs and branches of trees. Man of Honour
  • They are bound for tropical climes, with something magical in one of their packing cases. Times, Sunday Times
  • The euphoria I felt at the hospital was dashed on our first night together at home: we played pass the parcel all night with a squalling, unfamiliar infant, tripping over boxes and packing cases, shell-shocked at what we had done. An accidental family
  • Wooden packing cases, logs and branches of trees. Man of Honour
  • The wagon was almost filled with packing cases, some of them stencilled with the address of a factory in Penrith. CONFESSIONAL
  • Instead of a forest we had ladders and packing cases. Times, Sunday Times
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