How To Use Shoebox In A Sentence
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The shoebox-sized homes of battery hens have been shown on television a hundred times.
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The shoebox-sized homes of battery hens have been shown on television a hundred times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Men would turn up with hold-alls and shoeboxes piled with notes and turn them into Dutch guilders, Deutschmarks or, latterly, euros.
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Then, I decided to put some mixed birdseed into the shoebox, just in case the bird woke up while it was waiting to be treated down at the vet.
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Geraldine's sixth class pupils were certainly as busy as Santa's little helpers as they toiled packing shoeboxes full of toys and other items.
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What does the phrase "a shoebox in a Giant's closet" mean to you?
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Unpuffed-up, it's the size of a shoebox.
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Any old shoebox that can sit somewhere near the computer will do nicely.
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If these were paper letters in a shoebox, would you be arguing that they should be burned?
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The acoustician first analyzed the hall as a shoebox and then applied the results to the vineyard.
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If you find a shoebox of cash in your hedge or a Louis Vitton suitcase crammed with stacks of bills, just walk away.
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The singing was bad enough - she sounded like an angry wasp trapped in a shoebox, butchering melodies with the ghoulish efficiency of Jeffrey Dahmer – but even though she no longer bursts into song, her incessant piercing squawk is still enough to make me want to slice my ears off and hurl them into another dimension.
Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Blind Date
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Any old shoebox that can sit somewhere near the computer will do nicely.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few days later, they took me back to their shoebox house on its quiet, predominantly Catholic street with its manicured lawn and reliable car in the paved driveway.
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I've just spent three nights in such a monstrosity, holed up in a room only marginally larger than a shoebox.
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Take a New Yorker who can't deal with taking the granny cart out to the grocery store and walking up five floors to their shoebox apartment.
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Without thinking straight, I pick up a shoebox under my bed and start delving through it until I find the article.
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Photo scrapbooking is a passion of mine because I do love to take pictures and I believe that they are meant to be enjoyed rather than tucked away in a shoebox or the computer hard drive.
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It's a long block of concrete and glass, like an enormous shoebox.
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I place it in the shoebox under my bed, where I keep things that I want to have for a long time.
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But the ancient recipe became lost in the mists of time - until James's great-great-grandson John found it scribbled on a scrap of paper in an old shoebox.
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The suspect, who is in his 20s, was captured in his bedroom at 6am with crack cocaine, cannabis and a wad of cash stashed in a shoebox.
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Inside the shoebox was a stack of letters in vellum envelopes addressed in a curt, clean handwriting that must have been his.
Spin
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At one point he threw the lid of a shoebox out of the window.
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Still, she dismissed it, reminding herself that tons of people kept things that weren't shoes in shoeboxes.
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As a result, I have 4 plastic shoeboxes where I keep all my carded recipes.
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I have old love letters from old beaux, wrapped up in ribbons, sheltered in shoeboxes.
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This year we filled 200 Christmas gift shoeboxes for the Samaritans appeal while a group of Year 8 pupils made and sold nativity sets to raise money for the Pendle Hospice.
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The only photographs she had were stored in a shoebox, along with letters and the diaries that she did have with her.
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Up we went, a whole floor, and there it was - a shoebox.
Times, Sunday Times
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At one point he threw the lid of a shoebox out of the window.
Times, Sunday Times
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Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a shoebox partially hidden behind her brass headboard.
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When I was twelve I sat in the streamliner alone with a shoebox of sandwiches and deviled eggs my mother made, and ate everything right away as I headed north by the Sound where the trestles of derelict trolley lines roosted nations of seagulls.
Homestead
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Families are no longer satisfied with little shoebox rooms and single beds.
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When I was twelve I sat in the streamliner alone with a shoebox of sandwiches and deviled eggs my mother made, and ate everything right away as I headed north by the Sound where the trestles of derelict trolley lines roosted nations of seagulls.
Homestead
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I added the bloodstone to the items I was packing, then retrieved the scrying crystal and packed it, too, shoebox and all.
Fatal Circle
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First he had put the kittens in a shoebox coffin, which he placed carefully in the hole he had dug near an abelia bush.
The New Yorker Stories
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He could put the letters back in the shoebox he'd found them in, hide it away back in the attic.
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Actually, scratch that, it sounds too much like we live in a lost and found shoebox.
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After we three are home and warm and mama is sprawled asleep, the kid builds a shoebox nativity and the cats and I make a heap.
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Even the frog took a turn, standing on a shoebox and puffing his cheeks out so hard that he turned purple.
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So far this has kept images small: they are rarely bigger than a shoebox.
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Don't ask why, but Jackson's bungee cording shoeboxes of cookies to our bikes as we set out on a long early evening tour of the bike path.
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She kept a barn owl in a shoebox.
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The shoebox is the most cost-effective tax-saving device ever invented.
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He kept the state treasure in banknotes in a shoebox beneath his bed, where it was devalued from time to time by the gnawing of rats.
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The best way to secure enough shoeboxes is to buy dozens of pairs of shoes.
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Lifting an old shoebox from her bed, Kirby removed the lid, dropped her pen, and locked the diary into it.
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Enclosed in plastic casing of muddy beige, it was slightly bigger than a shoebox on end, about fourteen inches high.
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In today's market of over - priced real estate, the average apartment is basically a man - sized shoebox.
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We put this shoebox on his head with two holes in it.
The Sun
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She kept a barn owl in a shoebox.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Mr. Kirsch's telling, it is more like Mr. Holifield has interestingly presented the deranged notes that a batty aunt in the attic kept in a shoebox.
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I hesitate for a moment, then I burrow in the shoebox underneath my bed for the piece of paper I'm looking for.
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White worms are easy to raise. A plastic shoebox from the dollar store will meet the needs of most aquarists.
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It's a long block of concrete and glass, like an enormous shoebox.
Times, Sunday Times
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We put this shoebox on his head with two holes in it.
The Sun
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But my first exposure to Joyce was in a sleepy little black shoebox theatre, where a troupe of mild-mannered turtlenecked barnstormers read from Dubliners from a stage decorated with high stools, and where I, underexposed and underage and over my head, had too much to drink and fell asleep in mid-performance.
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Recently my grandfather rediscovered a shoebox full of letters and war memorabilia.
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Not too many interior walls since they converted the upstairs storey from five shoebox rooms and a landing to one big space.
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She found old photos of her grandmother in a shoebox.
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View from the shoebox apartment, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
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I found the answer in a month, inside a shoebox filled with letters.
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He wasn't even fazed; he just rolled his eyes and reached under the bed and unearthed a shoebox and handed it to me.
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Give each person a small box with a lid, like a shoebox or a keepsake chest.
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Unpuffed-up, it's the size of a shoebox.
Times, Sunday Times
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These children were different from those outside of the gates as they each held a box - a shoebox wrapped in Christmas paper.
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A hatbox, a jewelry box, and three bags have joined the shoebox.
Mariya Yefremova: The Case for Being Sentimental
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Up we went, a whole floor, and there it was - a shoebox.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was just a collection of old memories, mostly unpleasant, that belonged in a shoebox beneath my bed, a haven to gather dust.
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A shoebox crammed with confirmation slips does not qualify as a record - keeping system.
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In Mayo alone last year, 6,500 shoeboxes were filled and delivered.
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Manilla ( manilla.com ) replaces that inbox (or shoebox) that's overflowing with bills, frequent flyer updates, magazine subscription renewals and other boring-but-important pieces of information.
Dashboard Your Life
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She held a shoebox with silver, strappy shoes and on the top, a necklace and earring set.
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I was digging around for a different pair and came across a mysterious shoebox.
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I wanted my tiny little apartment, my shoebox sized room, my friends, my Dad.
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But even with a good paying job, the only way I'll keep my debts low is by renting a shoebox apartment for the rest of my life.
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She'd sent him a shoebox of tollhouse cookies and he'd never said thanks.
Have You Seen Me?
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We hazard a guess that they're lurking in a shoebox or, worse still, the ubiquitous carrier bag!
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If your door doesn't have a back panel that can be altered, like ours did, you can use a sturdy shoebox to fashion your window box.
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You want to put an end to ribald remarks from colleagues at work who put you in charge of the ‘Suggestion Shoebox’!
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Other apps, such as ToyCamera and Plastiq Camera, have more options and more intuitive interfaces, but they miss the point — retro-fied photo apps should be ugly until they're beautiful, and as thrillingly random as rifling through a shoebox of vintage Polaroids.
Style Meets Substance
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These shoeboxes are made up of small gifts such as dolls, Lego models, pencils, pens, writing and drawing paper and sweets.
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Just as she was about to leave, the woman caught sight of the shoebox on the bed, ‘Oh what is that?’