| 单词 | cardboard |
| 例句 | But this rectangle of flat cardboard was worth thousands and thousands of dollars. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He’s Dad’s age—around forty—and even though he’s lazy and can’t mop and hates cardboard paper cuts, he has an air of confidence that Dad doesn’t have. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “A package for you,” her dad said, raising a medium-sized cardboard box he balanced on one hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z My voice trailed off as I thought about all those years Tyson had lived on the streets of New York in a cardboard refrigerator box. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A cylindrical waxed cardboard box sat on the floor beside the desk. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And there’s Ben, leaning next to the doorway, balancing a cardboard box on his knee. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Paper, cardboard, and Styrofoam piled up in drifts around us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He tore a flap from the opened cardboard box and chased out the smoke with it and then he climbed up and lowered the trap door and turned and looked at the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Pens and pencils packed a dozen each in flimsy cardboard packaging with retro fonts and design. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He went to the tool crib and carried out a cardboard box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Amá is crying on the couch with three cardboard boxes in front of her when I get home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Freddie and the guys look up at me from the perfectly square cardboard cover of The Game. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z At least food tastes vaguely like food now, rather than cardboard. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z On the table were little blue cardboard cartons of blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries, and the tarts on the cover of Ruby Willow’s cookbook sprang into my mind. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The two white-faced women were arranging flowers in a vase that from far away appeared to be marble, but close up looked more like cardboard. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I sit at the kitchen table with a huge cardboard box, a few bottles of craft paint, and scissors. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Beside the stack of cardboard boxes sat a gallon of white gas for use in his lantern. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They went first to the furnace room in the basement, where the pajama-clad Mr. Clutter had been found sprawled atop the cardboard mattress box. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Salvador, as always, would sleep on the cardboard he spread on the living-room floor. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I thought they were happy to see me, but when I opened the door to our shack, I saw that everything we owned was neatly packed in cardboard boxes. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s that same tight feeling my skin gets after swimming, after the chlorine has turned me into cardboard. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She got that, then opened a cardboard box by the stove and took out her man’s knife and ulo which she had brought from Nunivak. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z So this is what Mercer sees, he thought as he painstakingly tied the cardboard box shut—tied it again and again. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z One old woman had already solved the problem for herself by dragging in a large cardboard carton. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Fang must have trampled the box on the way up, because when I put it on the seat beside him, its dented lid was the only thing holding the whole cardboard mess together. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He leaned over a cardboard box on the floor of the balcony, out of which the heads of two tortoises were peeking. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z We’re issued small bottles of milk which we drink through straws stuck in through a hole in the cardboard bottle tops. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I even had a life-sized cardboard cutout of him back home in Texas. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The fellows holding up the cardboard animals were ready, and Red was ready. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They no longer seemed like cardboard parents, but flesh- and-blood people who had almost died before I had even met them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He gave the stack of cardboards a solid-sounding double tap on the desk surface, as one taps a deck of cards, then dropped the stack back into the bottom drawer and closed the drawer. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z It looked like he immediately regretted his decision, because he made a face like he had just swallowed cardboard, and spit out the salmon onto the ground in front of everyone. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She has a cardboard cup by her ankles for spare change. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I make a cardboard sign for the Phelan house, place it on the front doorknob, NOW AIR-CONDITIONED. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Her black patent-leather clutch bag lay on the table, and she was smacking it, in quick motions, with the cardboard church fan she got earlier. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Then she will hand you each your scholarship check. We had large cardboard checks made. We thought they'd be fun keepsakes.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z We make complicated floral patterns with a compass, we glue odd substances to cardboard backings: feathers, sequins, pieces of macaroni garishly dyed, lengths of drinking straw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a cardboard box, unwrapped but tied with cord. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z To get her out from under the colander, Billy had slid a piece of cardboard beneath it, pinching her foot sharply in the process, so that it hurt when she walked. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z For mattresses, we laid cardboard over the ropes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And there they were in damp cardboard boxes all strewn around some random room on the sixth floor. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I was lying on a bed of cardboard, under a kitchen table, peering through a large hole in the blanket at the spooky darkness around me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Sensing a business opportunity, Hank escorted us into the back room and grabbed a couple beat-up boxes from a top shelf loaded with similar-looking cardboard refugees. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She sat at the kitchen table and fanned herself with a cardboard fan while I went to the pantry, where I spotted a stone crock of hard cider. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The woman puts a cardboard bottle on the bed and wheels a screen around to give me privacy. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “This sheet says his favorite food is mutton pie. I literally cannot think of a more boring food. He’s like a cardboard cutout of a person.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Among the little spherical formations of lint under the desk a piece of cardboard had been wedged under one corner to make the desk level. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He drew over the picture the sheet of thin paper on which I was accustomed to rest my hand in painting, to prevent the cardboard from being sullied. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z While he poured pills into a round cardboard box she stood in the door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On the second, she constructed the cake, using cardboard bases and straws for supports, and made the basic icing to cover the layers. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z We’ve made the walls out of huge sheets of cardboard and painted on the bamboo patterns. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Each one of the sliding floor-to-ceiling bookcases was loaded down with heavy cardboard cartons, books, or metal storage bins. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The baby had been tucked in a cardboard box, wearing several sets of clothing and cocooned in blankets against the January cold. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In fact, his feelings were all in a ball and twisting crazily in his stomach like those bunches of bait worms in cardboard canisters that Nick sold in his store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z These prints, together with another footmark found on the same cardboard cover—the bold and bloody impression of a Cat’s Paw half sole— were the only “serious clues” the investigators could claim. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a cardboard box but a fancy one you’d get from a jewelry store. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Using the pile of construction paper, markers, and tape, we began sketching screenshots of how we imagined our app would look, on cardboard cutouts shaped like cell phones. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z My mom is sitting at a booth with Hector in her lap, folding cardboard pizza boxes. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Just this perfect Now. after g’reenville #1 After the chicken is fried and wrapped in wax paper, tucked gently into cardboard shoe boxes and tied with string . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z As we passed by Main Street School, I reached underneath the front seat and pulled out my penny collection, which I kept in a small, white cardboard box. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He pulls out a bunch of comics, each in a plastic sleeve with a piece of cardboard behind it, to protect it I guess. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He lay down a scrap of cardboard and used another piece as a blanket to keep mosquitoes away. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The backdrop is a row of Christmas trees flanked by a cardboard menorah and a Kwanzaa candle set. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Miss Lillibet and Miss Violet had let him store a cardboard box filled with old paperback books in their vault, and he wanted to find something to read. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z She adds a cardboard flat of opalescent buttons for my unfinished dress. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We unloaded the Carcachita, placed some cardboard on the dirt floor, and laid our wide mattress on it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z You can see where he cut out the pieces of cardboard and taped them all together, and written on the sides of the pyramid are these little signs and arrows. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z She gives me an oblong of purple cardboard from a stack of them on the table. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Besides,” she said, “nobody has a car long enough to load up all the cardboard. A van is perfect.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z My dad scribbled something on the cardboard, like he was in a hurry to be somewhere else. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Hurriedly, she circled the table, reached under it, rolled Florah away from the damp cardboard, lifted them up, and underneath, on the earthen floor, she found her little black book. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The recruiter was packing the leaflets into a cardboard box; he didn’t look up. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The floor was piled high with duffels, backpacks, and cardboard boxes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Sea and sky meeting on a cardboard cup. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I was thrilled, because I much preferred the wooden matches that came in boxes over the flimsy ones in the cardboard books. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z On that particular afternoon, the girls had built a dungeon out of cardboard boxes in the corner of the storage yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Greenery enveloped the stage front, and in the center, for no particular reason, were large red cardboard letters: MCHS. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Garrett slides into his seat, setting a cardboard cake box on the table in front of us. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z But the only thing in the living room is debris: price tags from all the gifts they’ve packed for their relatives, plastic hangers, cardboard from shirts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They had hair the color of cardboard in splotches over parts of their bodies, but mostly they were just yellow and scabby skinned. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She had this small cardboard box, the size of a shoe box, open on her bed. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He slipped his father’s cardboard notebook into his pocket. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z It was a huge book on porous mimeographed paper—four hundred pages long with no drawings or photographs, only diagrams and formulas—between brick-red cardboard covers. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z All the children's belongings had fitted into just three cardboard cartons. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Because there was no mayo, I ate my sandwich dry as cardboard as I stood over the kitchen sink and looked out the window at the darkening sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He held a cardboard box with both hands; when he entered the apartment he did not set it down. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z We spread out all over the place, tossing our cardboard squares and counting the blades of grass. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I think of my sister, who understands that cardboard forts can become all too real, and I think of the captain, who has tormented me yet has trained me for this moment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z They stood around like cutout cardboard figures and asked, “Well, how is it up North?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We don't know how to pack up our lives into small, medium, and large cardboard boxes. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Instead of a closet, there was a large cardboard box that had once held a refrigerator and would now hold the three children’s clothes, all piled in a heap. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z When I'm done shopping, Amit buys a turmeric-stained cardboard container of lentils, egg, and rice, and we head back to the car to share it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I aimed it at the cardboard TV frame she’d taped around my window and pretended to push one of the fake remote control buttons. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Though the beef tastes as dry and flavorless as cardboard, I’m so ravenous that it’s all I can do not to shove it into my mouth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We were all on the floor, under a heavy black burlap blanket and, on top of that, a lot of empty cardboard boxes that were meant to look like freight. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I finally spray him with water, and he runs right into the cardboard cat carrier with the picture of a kitten in a spaceship on the side. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Thorn’s voice was muffled in cardboard and plastic wrapping. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z There was a cardboard box and I knew somebody was sleeping in it. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z I closed the cover before striking, but the cardboard of the matches kept bending on me. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I held the precious specimen in a cardboard box on my lap while he drove. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z With the end of each performance, my tongue felt more and more like it was made out of cardboard. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z It was pitch black behind the boarded-up door and Victor’s heart nearly stopped when, by the ticket booth, he ran slam-bang into a cardboard cutout of a man pointing a machine gun into his face. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She’s got art supplies around her and is busy cutting out cardboard pumpkin patterns. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z When the cardboard becomes too wet, they get another. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Axel only smells the evergreen scent that reminds him of the cardboard cutout in Frank’s old truck. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z My bedroom door opens and Coop strides in carrying a small wood table with bowed legs and a cardboard box sitting on top of it. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z We played Operator with a scrap of cardboard and a length of twine for a switching station. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Not cheap cardboard gravestones, but full-on motorized zombies that creep across the driveway by themselves. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Miss Trixie’s apartment was decorated with scraps, with junk, with bits of metal, with cardboard boxes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I see Colin running up to my house with a little cardboard box. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Each doll was about as big as my thumbnail, with cardboard limbs wrapped in colorful thread made to look like clothes. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She took his notepad from him and scribbled her number on the cardboard backing; “There. You got the digits and you didn’t even ask for ’em.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z On a big cardboard box that looked as though it had been laid there specially. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In my room, there’s just a sleeping bag and some cardboard boxes for my clothes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Something you want to hide in a cardboard box, something to stamp out of your mind. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no shoes at all and his feet were wrapped in rags and cardboard tied with green twine and any number of layers of vile clothing showed through the tears and holes in it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z And at the weekend I make up my own timetable and I write it down on a piece of cardboard and I put it up on the wall. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Setting the cardboard box down, he carefully began brushing the loose soil away from the toad. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Capricorn made a sign, and one of his men brought in a large cardboard box. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Finally, his hand trembling, Hugo reached into his pocket and pulled out his small, battered cardboard notebook. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He moved aside a cardboard box, and a huge spider, with a lumpy, greenish-grey back, scuttled out, and over some piles of newspapers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z We were also too big to sleep in cardboard boxes, and there wasn’t enough room on the floor for them, anyway, so we helped Dad build two sets of bunk beds. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Right before we got into the cardboard jungle we passed the white people with the coughing baby at their own little fire. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z As I rested the mattress against the wall, I noticed a small cardboard box nestled in the ledge between the frame’s headboard and side. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Miss Violet reached for Lloyd, but he ducked and disappeared behind one of the cardboard cows by the manger. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I waited while he went down in the basement and returned with my chemicals in a cardboard box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She was running, running toward something in the distance, but she didn’t know what it was she was running toward, and she didn’t know why she was carrying a scrunched-up cardboard box in her hands. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He blocked the doors with the drums and built a fire in the floor and he made beds out of some flattened cardboard boxes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The cardboard inside my shoe got soggy and started to fall apart. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I seal up the huge cardboard box as securely as I can with strapping tape. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I take a closer look at the clump of shredded paper that used to be inside the cardboard box. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z We wore orange space suits that my mom had made from old curtains, and square space helmets we’d made from cardboard boxes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He reached under the dashboard and pulled out a cardboard box filled with stuff. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She balanced a cardboard box across her handlebars with one hand. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I see a rat's tail disappear behind a stack of cardboard boxes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was a cardboard cutout of one of Blue’s paw prints. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was time to get ready for bed, Calista told me she’d help me take the cardboard TV to the recycling, but I said I wanted to keep it up a little longer. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z “For treasure. Like this. Glass or metal scraps are best. The waste mart man will even buy cardboard and cloth if they’re not too tattered.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She also brought home an empty cardboard box which the storekeeper had given her. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything we owned was neatly packed in cardboard boxes. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But she has a real MD and PhD and she’s still stuck by a conveyor belt, cutting big stacks of cardboard. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The refrigerated cakes come in flimsy cardboard boxes steaming with dry ice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother had a set, kept at the back of the hall cupboard, with the Christmas tree decorations in their cardboard boxes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Aron came dashing around the house, carrying a cardboard box intricately tied with string in fancy bow knots. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When they laid a sheet of the study on the glass, the cardboard covered the “Top Secret” stamps, but not the text on the page. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He reaches into the cardboard box and pulls out the walkie-talkie. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She went into the kitchen and came out with a cardboard box, a little smaller than the shoe box for Papa’s work boots. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Rats scatter in front of us with squeaks of terror, and I see only their tails, slipping between mounds of waste, empty trash cans, soggy cardboard boxes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “A cardboard jungle, somewhere you can get off the train and clean up and get something to eat without the cops chasing you out of town.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z When we walk in, there are two slim cardboard boxes on the counter waiting for us. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I lifted the cardboard, and there was the yellowed back of the photograph, with a line in Gramps's handwriting: Birdie on Ocean Beach, 1996. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z So I pushed the cardboard flap forward and, right there on the green lawn of Julia Bishop’s home in Lake Forest, Illinois, I stepped out of the book and into Julia’s arms. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She holds out a small, damp cardboard box to me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I saw wheels of ribbon and wrapping paper, stacks of colored construction paper, cardboard boxes of newspaper clippings, watercolors and cans of paint, a yellow stack of phone books. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I ran home and grabbed Vincent’s chess set, which was bound in a cardboard box with rubber bands. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Carter advanced to the center of the platform where Obie held a cardboard carton. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Betonie dug down into the cardboard boxes until dust flew up around his face. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Only once a year did the need to dispose of a mountain of wrapping paper and cardboard packaging overrule Desdemona’s objections to using our fireplace. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The dolls stood upright in flimsy cardboard boxes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The old woman unfolded one side of the cardboard, while Mama opened the other; then she bowed again and scurried out the door. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z So I just leave it on and hurry down to the basement to find a cardboard box. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He crept to his closet and lifted the cardboard flap covering a hole in the wall. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The records came in cardboard sleeves with artwork and a track listing printed on them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The little boy has his shoe off and his mother is putting cardboard cutouts of his feet into the shoes he wants to try on. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Violet, who usually moved slowly in the mornings, nodded and immediately got out of bed and went to the cardboard box to find some proper clothing. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I think fitting the pieces together would be just like a jigsaw puzzle, except it wouldn’t be cardboard pasted together and hung on a wall. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Harry made a star out of shiny silver cardboard and placed it on top of the tree with no need of a ladder, it was that puny. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The AC blew through the vents, batting at the little yellow cardboard tree hanging down from the rearview mirror. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z To each of them, with his or her ticket, the booking clerk pushed over a little cardboard pillbox. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Perched uncomfortably on the handlebars, he clutched the sodden cardboard box. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When he’d finished, he held out his masterpiece so I could take a look—tight white cylinder, small cardboard filter inserted at one end—then sparked it up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We bought soft pretzels from the cart in the park, even though I told Calista they tasted like the soggy cardboard from the bottom of the pizza box. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z They’re all glued to a cat going down a stream in a cardboard box. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z When I get close, I spot a piece of cardboard sticking out of her garbage can. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We ate a fist-sized piece of fish meat at each meal, accompanied by dark green leaves, rigid as cardboard, that Wello foraged for us out of the underbrush. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Silently, Bo placed the kittens one by one into the cardboard box. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z His second-story flat afforded a view of the harbor and, off to one side, the tents and cardboard huts of a slum. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Several cardboard boxes of busted laptops and computer parts sat in the corner, next to a rack of old car batteries and a modified exercise bike I’d rigged up as a recharger. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This was much too long even for me to remain in limbo, so I spent the rest of the afternoon cutting accurate representations of the bases out of stiff cardboard. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Occasionally a man would sell warm soft drinks out of a cardboard box, but that was it in terms of concessions. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All the cardboard boxes that had been sent to the office in the last few months were piled on the floors and beds. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z From the bed of the pickup he removed a small sledgehammer, a half dozen metal posts, and a stack of cardboard signs. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Each picks out a bit of cardboard from a huge pile and lays it down anywhere he or she can find a spot to bed down. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Our reading material was random and inappropriate, delivered to us in unlabeled cardboard boxes from Léopoldville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For a few days a series of canvas tote bags accumulate in the hallway, cardboard boxes full of liquor, shopping bags full of food, cases of wine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I sat down at the small wooden table next to the stove, the shaky tabletop stabilized by pieces of cardboard stuck under the legs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Hyacinth didn’t want to reveal her real plan for the Beiderman—it was top secret—so instead she made a Christmas wreath with cardboard and tissue paper. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She was sitting on the windowsill in Fred and George’s room with her feet up on one of the cardboard boxes and had only grudgingly looked up from her new copy of Advanced Rune Translation. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Her classroom had big sunny windows, a collection of baby dolls to play with, and a giant cardboard playhouse in the back. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Among all that stagey scenery, too beautiful, like a cardboard movie backdrop. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes accused Montag. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Puzzling over everything she’d just learned, Emily walked into their kitchen to find her mom knee-deep in shopping bags and cardboard boxes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z We then covered it with cardboard and hung a sign that read GOLDFISH, 5₵ EACH. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I tore some cardboard off the end of my sleeping box. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I put it back into its cardboard box and tuck the tissue paper around it, over the face. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Or is she content to take me at face value, a cardboard cutout queen? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll need to get some foam for that bottom...and maybe cardboard for the crocodile head...” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I'm also pretty embarrassed to be taking food from a man who lives in a cardboard box, but I haven't eaten anything since the sandwich Max and I shared. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I swallow what feels like a giant chunk of cardboard lodged in my throat. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The workers who have some friends among the bosses, they get pieces of cardboard to sleep on. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The store clerk who wouldn’t let Kay try on shoes because she didn’t have a silly piece of cardboard. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was a battered cardboard box about the right size to fit a basketball. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Out of 652 gymnasts competing, I placed first on vault and floor, and third all-around, and at the end I was presented with a huge cardboard check for $5,000. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He was going to arrange them in a cardboard box and bring them to school in September. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He ain’t no cardboard soldier like some of these British boys. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I stack the remaining cans of corn and peas on the shelf in front of me, pick up the empty cardboard box, and stand up slowly, hoping to determine who it is without being seen. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Instead of wooden bleachers and a huge scoreboard, all I saw was a world of large paper birds hanging from the rafters and five- foot cardboard flowers lining the walls. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z They set up cardboard people and fired at them for hours. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Laura pulled open a couple of cardboard boxes, filled with candy bars. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z They have tents or lean-tos or pieces of cardboard over their heads to keep off snow and sleet. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I bought one a week from the bookstore near Cinema Park, and stored them in cardboard boxes when I ran out of shelf room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We both put our head and arms on the cardboard, but our legs are on the concrete. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a pile of rubbish in one corner of the room: cardboard boxes filled with mildewed papers and decaying curtains in a heap beside them. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I wrapped it in wet cardboard I pulled from the Dumpster. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Bugs said, “Dang, girl, you act like this is the first cardboard jungle I’ve been in, I know how you do dishes out here.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “They look more natural standing on the street than in front of the picture-man’s cardboard church window.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he took down the chart, and peeled off the Sellotape from around the edges, so that the sheet of paper came away from its cardboard backing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The sun is up—an orange cutout in a cardboard sky I make it to the top and kneel down. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z We watched Arul dive off a rock, his heels kicking an old cardboard carton that bobbed past. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z With a heavy sigh I held up one of the cardboard cutouts shaped like a cell phone. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z When we didn’t have access to the school’s dance studio we’d break down oversize cardboard boxes in abandoned streets and parking lots, set up a boom box, and practice. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z We sort through the old magazines, the stash of differentsized cardboard boxes, the shelves of clean jars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he went from cardboard box to cardboard box selecting back issues, and within minutes he left the office carting twenty old issues of the magazine under one arm. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran through the opening and bumped his nose against a cardboard wall. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The four cardboard flaps have been pushed back to reveal a tangle of shredded paper strips. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z A considerable amount of floor space was devoted to a vast number of unmarked, sealed cardboard boxes, amongst which stood Harry’s school trunk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Then I saw Rocco approaching, holding a cardboard tray of hot drinks. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Croker opened a drawer and found a little cardboard box of screws with ready-filed one-way heads, just like the one Malcolm had made in Mr. Taphouse’s workshop, but much neater. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It’s a cardboard box, marked with a capital E in black Sharpie. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Cats scrambled through the garbage cans that stood in front of some of the houses, and the sidewalks were strewn with old newspapers, ice cream and candy wrappers, worn cardboard cartons, and torn paper bags. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Frank swallowed a bite of burrito like it had turned to cardboard in his mouth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “The head,” said Sir Grummore, stopping suddenly, “will have to be of cardboard.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He jerked the cardboard box from the boy and tore off the top. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s when I spotted the piece of cardboard between her feet on the scuffed floor. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I squeezed the cardboard box and I squeezed Fang’s skinny neck as I shoved him into the car. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z When we’re finally done at one in the morning, we leave the kitchen with the table covered in randomly spray painted newspaper pages, and stray pieces of cardboard. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Eddie slid the cardboard suitcase over to in front of me. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The woman in the skirt thrust forward a flimsy cardboard rectangle. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z August arranged the jars she’d labeled so far in a cardboard box and set it on the floor, then dragged out more jars. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Max plucks crackers out of a cardboard box and crunches them loudly. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I always have to fight the urge to put Markie in a cardboard box in back of the furnace in the basement, securely closed with duct tape. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A white cardboard sign on a table in the back of the cafeteria beckoned them, its crisply stenciled black letters spelling out the lunchroom hierarchy: colored computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His lips looked puffy, gray, and cracked, and they felt dry as cardboard. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z What I did is I took a cardboard TV box we found behind Wal-Mart. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He typically works late into his evenings, and on most of his weekends, drawing designs on the computer, drafting plans, writing specifications, building Styrofoam and cardboard models to scale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ariana showed me how to fold the sides up and tuck them into flaps, so the cardboard transformed into a small box that could fit two cupcakes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Paula rustled around in her box as if looking for a way out of her boring cardboard prison. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Celia searches the cardboard box containing the few articles Felicia left behind and finds her daughter’s black bathing suit. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mom,” I whisper as we pick up our cardboard trays and get in line, “are all the girls in college this tall?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I used electrical tape to attach cardboard fins to the casement and then borrowed Mom’s fingernail polish to paint a name on the side. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On your way to the park, you had to dodge Bridge Barsamian, struggling with a big cardboard box, those tatty-looking cat ears she’s been wearing since September peeking over the top. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z In my yellow cell I filled a brown cardboard suitcase with my belongings and carried it down to the discharge officer's station for my final inspection. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Papi supervised us every once in a while to make sure we didn’t saw off our fingers as we shaped the thick cardboard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Ugh,” I say, cause my mouth is as dry as a cardboard factory from eating bread all night. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Though it had turned to a faint drizzle as we walked, the damage had already been done to the flimsy cardboard boxes in our arms. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But it had streamers and wavy cardboard on the walls, and posters about kindness that really mean calmness. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Now it would be easy to toss our piece of cardboard around the field and collect random ten-centimeter samples. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Getting that cardboard box of brightly colored shirts, jackets, and trousers from Lucky had not helped his temper. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Even if I'm sure to be trampled on the way, I've got to get to Auntie Seema's apartment, and all I have is the part of her address I remember from the cardboard box. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He went to a shelf and pushed aside a cardboard filing box to reveal a small safe. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Hagar stood at the door of the little cardboard closet, running her hands over the shoulders of dresses. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But I have cardboard boxes from our last move. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Paintings, drawings, pottery; all sorts of “sculptures” made from whatever was the craze of the day—bashed-up cans, maybe, or bottle tops stuck onto cardboard. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re carrying boxes and cardboard suitcases tied with rope and belts. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The alleys grew lean-tos and shelters made of layers of melting cardboard like hives. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “La Saline be the first to go. Nothing but loose trash and cardboard between us and the sea.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I dotted the back corners of the photo with glue before affixing it on top of the cardboard. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Lena, Hannah, and I lug our cardboard there after the last bell. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We would pile cardboard bricks into giant mountains and play avalanche. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z A jockey’s only bodily protection was a skullcap constructed of silk-covered cardboard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy places a long cardboard box on the counter before us and starts piling our stuff inside it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On the topmost shelf, above a rail of threadbare clothes, a small cardboard box was shaking and rattling as though there were several frantic mice trapped inside it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Remember when we used to make forts out of cardboard boxes on Christmas?” she says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The reading comer was jammed with pillows and was sheltered by half of an old cardboard geodesic dome. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Days before, we had made a sign for the Store, and as we turned out the lights Momma hung the cardboard over the doorknob. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an opening big enough for the door and one person, but the rest of the room was nothing but cardboard. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Sweet Jimmy looked at the bills, counted them out, then threw them into a cardboard box. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Wandering among the cardboard boxes, Vivian trails her fingertips across the tops of them, peering at their cryptic labels: The store, I960-. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I sat in the back of the car, with Dad’s leather suitcases, and our cardboard boxes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time this happens, even now, the nuns beam and kiss my cheek and shake my hand and give me fancy certificates that Maman plasters on the cardboard wall at home. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an empty cardboard carton in the kitchen that’d caught his attention. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Molly got rid of boxes that were oddly sized or misshapen or in bad shape and replaced them with new thick cardboard boxes, uniformly rectangular. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We noticed at both clothing drives that the clothes had a distinct smell: damp and moldy, like they’d been stored for a long time in wet cardboard boxes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was a battered table and chair and some cardboard boxes of junk. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z If food isn’t wrapped in plastic or cardboard, they won’t touch it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She then went over to the cardboard box and took out the ugliest of the clothes that Mrs. Poe had purchased, the outfits the Baudelaire orphans would never wear no matter how desperate they were. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Across the East River, like a fairy city made of silver cardboard, the skyscrapers loomed cleanly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Puzzling over everything she’d just learned, Emily walked into their kitchen to find her mom knee-deep in shopping bags and cardboard boxes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The corridor stretched in both directions to infinity, strewn with cardboard boxes and trash and monkey biscuits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the corner behind me the breeze also rustled the papers hanging from the Students’ Garden, a beautifully decorated piece of cardboard that displayed exemplary work. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The next time, I wore two pairs of shorts, and I put a piece of cardboard in between them. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Hooper was playing with the silver cardboard model of the fort, rolling the marble down and letting it drop through the chute, over and over again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The boys load cardboard to lie on and stay clean. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The younger man came out with a dirty cardboard box and set it on the counter. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The paint was plastered so thick on her face that it looked as though it might crack like a cardboard mask. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He slapped a cardboard menu down in front of them and leaned on the foaming orangeade cooler. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Faraci was supposed to be an oxygen molecule, but her outfit—pieced together with coat hangers, duct tape, and cardboard—carried the unfortunate whiff of homemade desperation. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z His tail whips and licks against our little cardboard Cadillac covered in spray paint. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Without a word, I fold the blouses and stuff them in my cardboard box where I don’t have to see them. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The man bent low, holding a sheet of cardboard as a dustpan for her. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He went inside the house and a little later came out carrying a cardboard box and several sacks he placed in the back seat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “A package for you,” her dad said, raising a medium-sized cardboard box he balanced on one hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There were also moldy cardboard crates filled with cans of something called BISCUIT, SURVIVAL, ALL-PURPOSE. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Clara opened her drawers, removed the cardboard suitcase that the good woman had used for fifty years, and went through her wardrobe. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They washed windows and swept floors and cleaned lavatories and put jars into boxes and sealed cardboard boxes in a factory that made malt syrup. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled a sheet of paper out of one of the cardboard folders and held it up for the giant to see. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Pressed against the windowpanes were cardboard snowflakes the size of the moon. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z In housedress and sandals, Desdemona held her cardboard fan to her chest, shielding herself against the spectacle of life repeating itself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We line shoes up by size along the benches and make signs with cardboard and sticks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In the drawer of her bedside locker, she kept a foolscap notebook with marbled cardboard covers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Instead I start walking down one of the aisles, as most people take off or shut themselves inside their lean-tos with cardboard or more tarp. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Anywhere but standing outside this stupid café with its staring customers and badly written cardboard sign. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Turns out Calvin is after one of those big cardboard tubes. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I swung wildly until the tips of my fingers brushed against a smooth surface and I heard the soft rub of cardboard on carpet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The dark East River beneath the Bridge, and far away, the misty-gray skyline of New York, looking like a city cut from cardboard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One wall is lined with movie posters and cardboard character cutouts. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This was the era when computer programs were created using cardboard punch cards. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z There’s a little cardboard tube attached to it, connected with thin white strings. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Only a notebook made out of discarded fish wrappers, panty-hose cardboard. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Thomas heard the creak of an old wooden door, and then Minho was dragging a cardboard box across the floor; the scrape of it sounded like a knife on bone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Still others were made of tin and cardboard and sacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Ariana opened the first box, and inside was...more cardboard. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z One was a four-by-four piece of white cardboard with the black silhouette of a sheep on it. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The man waved his mouth organ like a magic wand and pointed it all over the little cardboard city. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The cardboard that he stopped at had been written on in February, 1938. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Papa took a box knife out of his pocket and cut the cardboard, then he lifted the most wonderful sight I'd ever seen out of the box. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They found Hollister in the middle of the store, sorting paperbacks out of a cardboard box. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The dish was glued to a piece of cardboard, labeled “Sample A,” and left alone to decay into element 94. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I crush the cardboard holder flat and fling it like a Frisbee. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I was tired and hungry, and my shoes were as thin as cardboard, but I tried not to let any of that color my voice when I spoke. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Up near the front we found several large cardboard boxes, and when we opened them we found that they were full of electric motors of assorted sizes—replacement engines for broken or worn out toys. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Among the upscale houses, you see the occasional bungalow with cardboard stuffed in a broken window and a pickup truck parked in the side yard. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He counted out a dozen eggs, which he set gently in a cardboard carton. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z On my way out, I pass the five-foot Stormtrooper cardboard cutout that he won shooting free throws at the town’s Fourth of July festival last summer. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Then I saw something super familiar: cardboard record sleeves decorating a different wall. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z They said our next reposting would he to a chocolate factory but it was cardboard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The engineers are figuring out how to arrange the cardboard dividers inside our tomb to make chambers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z His pants were cardboard stiff from dirt and sweat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Liyana, passing his room with -another cardboard box in her arms, found him poking race cars into his socks. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z All night long, the box in the attic called to me, as if an invisible fishing line connected my fingertips to its cardboard edge. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Thanks, Mr. Mac, you say, opening the greasy, white cardboard box. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He had such graceful fingers, so good for folding shirts to fit the cardboard patterns that he had cut from campaign posters and fight and wrestling posters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They couldn’t toss us into the back of a U-Haul or put us in cardboard boxes at night. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We wore black capes fashioned from dyed pillowcases and conical hats with wide cardboard brims. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z From the top, I could see the sprawl of people selling oranges, avocados, packets of nuts on brightly colored pieces of material or small cardboard tables made from overturned boxes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She had pigtails and puffy red eyes, and she carried a blanket in one hand and a raggedy cardboard suitcase in the other. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The walls are covered in those cardboard cup holders that restaurants give when you have multiple drinks to carry. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Shears was in the taxi and he got out of the taxi and threw a big cardboard box of things belonging to Mother onto the lawn. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We were each given several large cardboard boxes in which to pack our things. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Caroline was standing next to a cardboard box full of large gray sweatshirts. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It whirled around the cardboard square decorated with a sunburst of ten colorful triangles. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z They sealed the cardboard valise with clear tape. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z A cardboard sign is propped up by his feet, with the words “Anything helps, God bless” penned in blue ink. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She was pulling flattened-up cardboard boxes out from behind the door of the pantry, where Mom keeps them until Dad finally bundles them so I can take them for recycling downstairs. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z The best mums are homemade with giant artificial chrysanthemums on cardboard backing with huge streams of ribbon hanging from them. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The pile of cardboard boxes shifts, and I jump. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then he took the cardboard tray of jars filled with little red and brown and purple slices of the organs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She’s sitting at the kitchen table with cardboard boxes all around her, folding a stack of letters and putting them in envelopes. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Trixie had stepped on the sign during one of her occasional pointless tours of the office, but the damage was limited to only a small sneaker print on one comer of the cardboard. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Wedged among mattresses, bed frames, chests, tables, and stacks of cardboard boxes, a big golden dog panted and lurched around, excited by the smells of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z At the curb are overstuffed cardboard vegetable crates waiting for a trash pickup that may be days away. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “If it gets wet, we can grab some more cardboard, and I’ll make a new one.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She picks up the cardboard box, shoves it into my arms. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Two cardboard boxes of stuff are stacked by the kitchen, two mattresses lie on the ground by the window, and an ancient TV and old, mustard-yellow couch take up the rest of the space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I was putting the Plant back in its cardboard box to head home when Granddaddy said, “Wait, Calpurnia. Mr. Hofacket, one more picture, I think.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Bits of plastic and wood and cardboard and steel. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As soon as the bread machine beeped, I pulled the loaf out, wrapped it in tinfoil, and put it in a cardboard box with the tray of lasagna. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He’s rapping along with the Sugarhill Gang while his homeboys break-dance on pieces of cardboard. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Standing at the pulpit, he gave the signal to a few of his stooges to bring in ten big cardboard posters which listed in alphabetical order every student in school. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A cardboard cutout advertising wine coolers twirled from the ceiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In large scrawled letters on the blank side of a cardboard beer coaster, it’s written. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Mikayla was pulling a cardboard tray full of potted plants out of the backseat, and she looked at me with an expression that was not quite surprise. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z An angel wearing a white sweater, white leggings, and a “halo” made out of cardboard. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My mother quickly straightened out the cardboard and rolled Florah back to sleep and covered her with more newspapers and cardboard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Cabinet drawers pulled out into the floor, paper and bloated cardboard boxes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A huge, black fly clung to the grimy cardboard wall in front of us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside her were two small bags and a cardboard box messily bound with twine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He went out and got a flat piece of cardboard and folded it up into a box, sticking a big piece of tape on the bottom. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z All we had was an easel made out of sticks and nails, topped with a sheet of cardboard. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A square sheet of cardboard lies in the center of the pillow. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Trunks, chairs, a small end table, and a cardboard “wardrobe” closet were placed around the walls. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Scorched curtains and soot fanned across the ceiling and cardboard peeling off the window and the very first pale light of predawn leaking through. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I make of him an idol, a cardboard cutout. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, when I was little, I yelled at her for smashing a dugout I’d constructed out of cardboard and my mom didn’t speak to me for a month. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As we approached, she held up a sign, a huge cardboard sign bigger than a basketball backboard. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She put six eggs into a cardboard container and placed it in a peach basket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Outside, Ella the harpy huddled in a nest of books under a makeshift cardboard shelter. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She tied a string around the cardboard box and said, “Carry it flat if your hands don’t get too cold. Then it’ll look mighty pretty when you fetch it to him.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In my stomach the food balls itself together, a handful of damp cardboard, squeezed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z His torch lights up stone walls made of cardboard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There’s a boy walking toward the entrance, holding a cardboard box, and he literally stops in his tracks when the twins walk by. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I run back into my bedroom and dig through my shoes to get to a cardboard box. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I pry it open carefully because the box is really old, the cardboard soft under my fingers. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Then she points to a cardboard box with a folded-up blanket inside. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It landed on Maxie, who was holding up a cardboard donkey behind us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I sighed and looked at the pile of pale-blue cardboard on the table. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The kid was stretched out, a crumpled cardboard box serving as a pillow. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She watches Bryce and Aurora as they scoot around with their cardboard boxes yelling, “Zoom!” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I tuck myself behind the giant cardboard cutout of Harry Potter saying, “Read!” that Mr. Herd has set up on the side of the entrance. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I wish I had stuffed that cardboard address into my pocket instead of my backpack. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I peek at the long cardboard box he just came out of and see a couple of plastic bags tied closed and a frayed green comforter. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Ralph felt as though he had a cardboard tube down his throat as he described how Grover had bought the land, built anyway, then sold it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Mouldering cardboard boxes were stacked along the walls. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She motioned to a boy standing behind the counter with his arms folded, near the reams of tissue paper and stacks of cardboard boxes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I introduce Tats and we help move a table in between two tall cardboard minaret-shaped cutouts. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z We’d get a piece of cardboard and go tobogganing down the depot’s narrow staircase. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z What you did—if you were one of these Juniors—was to follow back and forth from the storeroom the two men in overalls carrying the big cardboard boxes, asking them what was inside. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But I decided not to tell her I knew she was lying, because by then she was already cutting up the cardboard box, and I sort of wanted to find out why. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z She smiled and held it up for me to see: a square piece of cardboard on which she had printed in capital letters with a jet-black marker: OUT OF ORDER. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The next night I again went up my secret path and found my rocket waiting for me in a cardboard box outside the gate. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That summer of 1940, in Lansing, I caught the Greyhound bus for Boston with my cardboard suitcase, and wearing my green suit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The shacks were made of plastic, tin and cardboard and stood near clumps of blue gum trees, whose branches screamed like ghosts in the icy Cape wind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Zack tosses me a can of yams, and as I place it in the cardboard box it suddenly hits me where I’ve seen her before. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He finds some cardboard and places it on a dry spot. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She picked up the roll of toilet paper and placed the stumpy doll leg into the center of the cardboard tube. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “So it’s not a chocolate milkshake in a convenient cardboard carton?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z She realized she was cradling the cardboard canister as if it were a baby. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z He ate in the back of the store, alone, chewing sandwiches that tasted like cardboard in his dry mouth. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He had found some cardboard to put underneath him. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z So far, all I’d gotten to touch in this place was cardboard. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z But Vega found an old cardboard box, sitting upside down, about twenty feet away. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I didn’t see all those cardboard backboards Finkle had given out. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The thing looked like a little strip of grey cardboard. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Francis kept watch while Henry and I went up to the attic and searched through broken lamps, cardboard boxes, ugly Art I oil paintings. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Flat pieces of cardboard in the bakery’s signature blue. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Meanwhile I bought clothes, shoes, a cardboard suitcase, all of which I hid at home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I stacked a whole bunch of cardboard coffee sleeves too. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he lifted his chin and said, over the cardboard flap, “I’m fine, though I appreciate your asking.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A few people are holding up cardboard signs with photographs or messages on them. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z When it was all put together and painted, with a cardboard vulture’s head and cobra glued to the front, it looked so impressive they could hardly believe they’d made it themselves. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The top of the model was broken, the cardboard had buckled and the drawbridge was tilting sideways. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The cardboard cover was falling apart, and the pages were bent and soft from age, especially the ones in the front. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z "No problem," I said, struggling to get a grip on the sides of one of the bigger cardboard boxes. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Vincent set down the last of four cardboard boxes with a grunt, then went inside for some lighter fluid. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Alice’s trunk was full of paper: yellowed Farm Journals and buttons on cardboard and a ton of dress patterns. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He stacked cardboard boxes on top of it. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until she stopped that I noticed the big white cardboard box they had brought in with them. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The first drawer she tried opened only a couple of inches—it was jammed, crammed full of bottles and a cardboard package. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Tents and cardboard shelters lined the streets, and the public parks I saw seemed to have been converted into refugee camps. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “January. Something like that. Mrs. McCullough said that one of the firemen came out for a smoke and found her there in a cardboard box.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As I watched you stacking pieces of cardboard and humming joyfully, the realization stabbed me that even I expected too little of you. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There was a cardboard name tag on the handle of the suitcase he carried; he could feel it with the tips of his fingers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Upstairs in my room, I found a piece of orange cardboard I bought for a school history project and cut a four-by-six-inch rectangle. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I sit next to a pile of cardboard boxes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z When Petra opened the door, there was Calder on her front porch wearing a large red letter made out of taped-together cardboard squares. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The quilt, finished and backed, was in a big cardboard box in the bar. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The best time to see them was at dawn because after the sun came up they would be hiding or sleeping inside shelters of old tin, cardboard, and scrap wood. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t have access to the dance rooms at school over winter break, and we were really sick of the cardboard boxes we’d used on weekends, so we splurged on an upgrade. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I look at the empty cardboard box on the floor and try to think of something else to say. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Another time, I built a robot costume with cardboard boxes, foil, wire coat hangers, and some flashlights I borrowed. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Donay tells the central guard I will sicken if he does not give me cardboard. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The soggy cardboard box was coming apart in his hands. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The fruit, when peeled, was unappetizing—quite like soggy cardboard in color, texture, and flavor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That night, I heard everything through the cardboard walls. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Assume that one of three possible symbols chosen at random is placed under a piece of cardboard and the subject is asked to identify it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Auntie Harrigan, who had already heard about their impending move from Papa, sat herself down on a cardboard box full of packed books and listened to every word. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They have put in the window the cardboard sign that has a pound measure printed on each of three edges—10 lbs., The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “It ate 1020 bar stock, burned it out like it was cardboard,” I marveled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I hear someone walking around upstairs and I assume it’s Hazelle, but a few minutes later Peeta comes down and tosses a cardboard box of empty liquor bottles on the table with finality. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A cardboard star was tied to a bulb. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I scraped whatever people didn’t eat into cardboard take-out containers and saved it for later. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z After contentedly poring over The Tivies, I wandered into the lab to see Francis, unquestionably early, flipping the cardboard base pairs about an imaginary line. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Todd opens a cardboard box that I had not noticed sitting on the floor near his feet: a squat, slightly menacing-looking appliance he introduces as the “Filter Queen.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked up, and sure enough, it was Mr. Willie Ray standing there while Renee piled fried chicken into cardboard buckets. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She had packed her clothes, her favorite books, and her art supplies in a single cardboard box. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Never mind that we taught each other to ride a bicycle with no hands, or to build a fully functional homemade camera out of a cardboard box. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Peachy powders and milky lotions were grouped in front of poster after cardboard poster of gorgeous grinning faces. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He came out with a collapsed cardboard box and a lawn chair. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z You and Kutti watched as the boys carefully separated our rubbish into piles: cardboard, metal, plastic, glass. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z These two pieces were the only wooden furniture in the hut—the supply boxes in Rupa’s quarter were made of cardboard. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z And speaking of alleys, what kind of people put their baby on top of a pile of cardboard boxes in a dark alley? Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At four in the afternoon, I jam the manuscript in a cardboard letter box. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A man was holding up a pair of rusty scales, weighing some cardboard. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Discarded pieces of zinc, chicken wire, cardboard, torn sheets that Mami had given us, and dried palm fronds formed the walls of our very own barrio under the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a pale moon that allowed me to make out in the distance the outlines of a wretched slum, with houses made of cardboard, planks, and corrugated metal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit by myself in the back of the car, among the suitcases and the cardboard boxes of food and the coats, and the gassy dry-cleaning smell of the car upholstery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He tells the man I will fall sick and cost money to fix, and because of that the man gives me a piece of cardboard. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It tasted like the cardboard covers of our primers, salty, dry, fibrous, but not as satisfyingly chewy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She double-bagged the monkeys, spraying each bag with bleach, and then she loaded the bags into cardboard biohazard containers—hatboxes—and sprayed them to decon them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She flipped open the book, which had cloth-covered cardboard covers and blank pages inside. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But they are still here, Mabel and Ana with suitcases next to their feet and bags slung over their shoulders, Javier and the driver wrestling a giant cardboard box from the trunk. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There rested a cardboard container, inside it a spare fuel pump for his car. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Annemarie’s dad had a cardboard box full of stuff, little containers and plastic bags, which he offered to Mom. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z The backseat was crammed with cardboard file boxes full of papers and documents and photographs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z On the third bus, a man boarded with an open cardboard container of, judging by the aroma, Chinese food. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z At the time it had still had a cardboard binding and a torn paper dust jacket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I pushed all the buttons on Calista’s cardboard remote, but the channel never changed. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z The joined cardboard feet hung down, pulling the paper legs in elastic folds, a construction of tissue, cardboard and glue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed into the front, Bud carrying his black satchel, an overnight bag, and a large cardboard box. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimple reached into her bag and pulled out a red cardboard box. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Inside were a bunch of shelves holding cardboard boxes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z His white uniform was starched so stiff his trousers looked as if they had been made out of cardboard. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I realized she had transported homemade food thousands of miles, all the way from Korea, and the stench of overripe kimchee shot up through the cardboard flaps and I nearly dropped the whole thing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Those little cardboard boxes of juice that I had always, just once, wanted to try. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z "Close your eyes/' said Henry, opening the large cardboard box. Something soft and nubby slid over his shoulders. " The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They splashed their way through into the front of the shop, where they found a chaos of floating bottles, tubes, cardboard packets gone soggy. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I didn’t have anything against cardboard, so I tried one. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The fourth graders cut menorahs from cardboard and covered them with glittering aluminum foil. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z At home, on the shelf next to my basketball trophies, I have a whole city of cardboard buildings that I carved out with my X-Acto knife. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Slowly, her father came up the driveway, a grim expression on his face as he grappled with a large, heavy cardboard box. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He pastes uncooked pasta to cardboard, and leaves his signature in fat brush strokes below paintings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One at a time they carried the heavy cardboard boxes up to the shelter and stacked them inside the door. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Not seeing me, for twenty minutes, lying on the floor of my bedroom, staring at him through a cardboard TV. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z When he pulled his hand from the brown cardboard, he wasn't holding no electric blue dopeness. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z But hot sauce on cardboard is still cardboard. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z I’ve knocked over the friendly Harry Potter cardboard cutout, but I can’t get myself to pick it up, mumble “Sorry,” and run from the room. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Her father wraps the largest in cardboard and uses an ancient wheeled dolly to thump it down the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At the pavilion Mr. Thomas was about to receive a donation for the foundation in the form of a giant cardboard check. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Roli and me on a spaceship made of sofa pillows, on a cardboard raft crossing the Amazon. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Instead of beds, we kids each slept in a big cardboard box, like the ones refrigerators get delivered in. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But they all had somewhere a big cardboard box or two with LPs and cassette tapes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not bad,” said Ron, pulling over a cardboard box and sitting on it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The hollow pieces were barely taller than an inch, and the set came with a folding cardboard chessboard that had red and black squares. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He set Ralph down in front of an opening in a cardboard wall and said, “When Brad fires his cap pistol, go for the peanut butter.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Cranes hummed and robotic arms whirred, folding cardboard boxes, packing shipments, and taking things on and off the belts. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A guy wearing a headset carries out three giant cardboard rectangles and hands one to each winner. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Sure enough, it was filled with flat cardboard in the shop’s signature blue. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Puzzled, I moved into the crowd and pressed to the front where at my feet I saw a square piece of cardboard upon which something was moving with furious action. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They settled in any way they could, under planks of wood and pieces of cardboard, in the midst of garbage and despair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Each Sucker consisted of a yellow cardboard tube filled with sherbet powder, and there was a hollow liquorice straw sticking out of it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the Amity Harbor Elementary School, a girl of seven bending over to pack a snowball was rammed from behind by a boy skidding down a hill on a piece of cardboard box. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They wandered through the student union, and dragged a tray together along the cafeteria ledge, and ate french fries heaped in a cardboard boat among students chatting at circular tables. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We clapped it up as Coach folded the cardboard flaps of the box back. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Loving mischief, she spread icing over a cardboard box and presented it as a birthday cake to a neighbor, who promptly got the knife stuck. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He tossed the empty beer bottle into a cardboard box near his feet. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They looked in every corner, under the bed, and even inside the cardboard box. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He placed a cardboard marker at the page and handed the book to me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Know there’s a piece of cardboard somewhere out in the shed I can print on. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At two thirty a.m., when the firemen opened the door and discovered the baby, lying in a cardboard box, it had just begun to snow, and everything was covered with a silvery, crystalline dusting. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z No paintings have been hung yet and the shelves wait empty and cardboard boxes stand open on the floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The freezing cement floor made us children huddle together near the brazier each night, and my mother would cover us with old newspapers, cardboard and our two thin blankets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I swallow what I can and drop the rest of the churro in the cardboard tray. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The boys were bent over a piece of cardboard. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z The big one she put in the cardboard box she had brought from the store. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But just when I thought I was going to get away, the creaky machinery of his face began to grind and a cardboard dawn of recognition was lowered, with jerks, from the dusty proscenium. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He wore fake fangs, and two cardboard horns poked out of slicked-down hair. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Then we measured the squares on large pieces of cardboard and cut them out, so we were left with a piece of cardboard that had a ten-centimeter square missing in the middle. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z There is still the cobwebbing music from beyond and now also a musty cardboard stench in the alley and the frequent whiff of garbage. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They dragged the people out of their shelters—and they pulled the pieces of tin and cardboard down. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Bob’s turkey tastes like cardboard and his lemon pound cake looks like Jell-O, but Hospital Santa has everyone singing and all this joy is spoiling my mood. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z There were five folders of faded cardboard, bent or torn at the corners, each one full of paper. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A few blocks south of Yesler, in a shantytown sprawling along the edge of Elliott Bay, children awoke in damp cardboard boxes that served as beds. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Back issues of the Voice in cardboard boxes lined the hallway leading to a bathroom in the rear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The matches are wooden ones, in a cardboard sliding-top box, the kind I used to covet in order to make dolls’ drawers out of them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid’s husband had to cut a pattern from cardboard so Moon Orchid could fold handkerchiefs uniformly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We got to our lockers, and I helped her slide the cardboard tray into hers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And just about every day my mother had to get new cardboard to make pallets because the rats were eating those too. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, after we settled in our cottage, a cardboard box arrived from the captain. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the cardboard donkeys kept tipping over and hitting Horse, this only served to make him more nervous. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Every now and again, a plain grey cardboard box was dished out to each boy in our House, and this, believe it or not, was a present from the great chocolate manufacturers, Cadbury. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Coraline filled a cardboard box with dolls and with several plastic doll’s teacups. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z George Washington was having a terrific time jumping up on the stacks and swiping his claws through the cardboard. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He drops a cardboard box down on the counter. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His mother rolled big bricks up from the riverbed to hold the pieces of cardboard in place. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I hung on to my riales in my sweaty fist, my stomach growling as I pictured the little pile of riales growing in a cloth bag at the bottom of my cardboard clothes box. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Both dogs leapt forward and, at the exact same second, sank their teeth into opposite ends of the box’s soft cardboard flaps. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Pulling off the towels, he revealed an unmarked cardboard box wound with tape. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The other Edith’s box looks wilted and old, with its worn cardboard and frayed edges. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But there was the empty sheet of white cardboard, propped up on the easel, the table-top clear of papers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Then she put her dolls and the cups back in the cardboard box she had carried them out in. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The other box was an old cardboard box that is called a shirt box because people used to buy shirts in them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was juggling a few small cardboard boxes in his arms. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They had left him alone most of the week It had rained, and he had made a model of a helter-skelter, out of cardboard painted silver. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She would snip the bottom of a sweater and pull out a kinky thread of yarn, anchoring it to a piece of cardboard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, we found an astonishing treasure: cardboard boxes filled with loose chocolates. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We were tired and anxious when we stepped into the airport waiting area, but there to meet us was a group of people holding a big cardboard sign that said: “Martha and Tabitha, Welcome Home.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Its cardboard hands were doubled into fists, the fingers outlined in orange paint, and I noticed that it had two faces, one on either side of the disk of cardboard, and both grinning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We find bits of paper and cardboard that will be useful in starting the fire again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Keira stirs in her corner, partially hidden from view behind the cardboard divider. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She slipped the record out of its cardboard sleeve and placed it on the record player, then carefully lowered the needle onto the vinyl. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z But he straightened, balancing the cardboard long enough to dump the load into a trash bin. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Bugs whispered, “Shoot, this ain’t no city, this is just another cardboard jungle.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z At the end of the street I saw a blue-and-white cardboard box in the mud, and for a second it looked like the same nutrition bars I’d found in the minimall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I gripped the cardboard with my best hold, dipped my knees a little, and let the Frisbee fly. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I protested and started heading back to my bed of cardboard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A cardboard sign in Turkish and Arabic is stuck inside the door: No Syrians. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Then I draw a machete on a cardboard box and cut it out. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I guess in Manhattan you have to start putting on winter coats early in the season, so you don't freeze on your walk between Duane Reade and the cardboard box you’ll eventually sleep in tonight. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Homeless men have built a cardboard “village” on rooftops. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z I recognized Dad’s crabbed scrawl on a small brown cardboard box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Bits of paper, styrofoam cups, small pieces of cardboard . The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the kids were stationed behind the cardboard animals to keep them up, and they giggled and kept looking around the edges at each other. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The men looked up just as he shot the string half in two, dropping the cardboard lady to the floor at their feet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The others went in for white bread and gravy mix sandwiches, lukewarm baked beans, pies made from cardboard and glue. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, from beneath the bed, she pulls out a water-stained, warped cardboard box, sets it between us, and opens it slowly. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Shanties built out of every imaginable scrap of waste—roofs of coconut thatch or gunnysacks, walls cobbled together from metal signs, wooden crates, or even cardboard taped over with plastic sheets—lined the narrow streets. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I kept it in my pants pocket during the day, and at night I hid it in the bottom of the cardboard box where I kept my clothes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He smelled like a New York City alleyway, because that’s where he lived, in a cardboard refrigerator box off 72nd Street. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She had the same cardboard fan in her hand that I’d fanned Granny with when she lay dying. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z On some of the tables glasses stood half-empty; in one ashtray a cigarette had burned down to the butt; a plate of risotto stood next to a basket of stale rolls as hard as cardboard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, flattened cardboard boxes covered most of the floor, which was worn from years of foot traffic. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z That evening, I cut up the cardboard backing of two yellow tablets. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He could still remember the smell of the damp cardboard. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Roberto and I unloaded the cardboard boxes from the trunk and ran into the house, anxious to show Papá and Mamá what we had done. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Mother made a frame with cardboard, glue, and thread, and Nasser’s photograph, with this sentence written underneath, was the only picture in our home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He flung her onto her aunt’s bed, then picked up the cardboard box with the rest of his new clothes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Mam tells us gather anything that burns, coal, wood, cardboard, paper. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Roy seized the opportunity to retrieve a cardboard shoe box from his room and slip quietly out the back door of the house. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s because me and Calista had made a frame out of cardboard, she’d helped me paint it and everything, so it looked just like a fancy one on a museum wall. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Using cardboard cutouts of cowboys, Indians, stagecoaches, and horses I’d glued to sticks, I projected a shadow show about a sheriff in the American Wild West who had to protect his town from bandits. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Laney threw the lid aside from one of the white cardboard boxes, rummaged through the box, removed a pair of old floral leggings, and stretched the waistband around her head to make a hat. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We don’t own much, but what we do have is tossed into cardboard boxes in the center of the living room. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The Mess is also divided by blocks—small cardboard table tents are labeled with block numbers so we know where to go. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The place was packed with lopsided row houses patched with tin sheets and scrap wood and cardboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Mom was waiting impatiently for me with six casseroles wrapped in aluminum foil and packed into a shallow cardboard box. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Lee went to the kitchen and brought back a big cardboard box. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When he came back he had a strip of blue-and-white cardboard in his teeth. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He was dabbing at the rough edges of the cardboard with the brush. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to peer through the window, but it had been boarded up with cardboard. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “First off, you need a cardboard sign. Then you need a busy intersection. The best corners have long stoplights.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They were wrapped in paper in a cardboard box in my rucksack. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It was impossible to tell what he was thinking; his face remained quite blank as he put the little cache of stolen objects back into the cardboard box. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It was a mere shell, its hull scraped to the thickness of cardboard in some places. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A half-dozen cans of paint, a bag of brushes, some buckets, a heap of cardboard, and several large tarps waited in a pile underneath the bent rim. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z He gave her a shirt cardboard to measure the towels. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They found Hollister in the middle of the store, sorting paperbacks out of a cardboard box. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Enrique tries to stay clean by finding bits of cardboard to sleep on. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As we came level with the shop we saw a cardboard notice hanging on the door: Closed. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He goes to the closet and pulls out the big cardboard box with the pinnies and I start sucking both sleeves. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Bits of foam and cardboard litter the floor. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He sat at his desk, eating oatmeal, the instant kind you mix with boiling water and eat out of a cardboard cup. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She reached under the kitchen table and grabbed the torn blanket and draped it in place of the shawl and took the shawl and spread it over the newspapers and cardboard covering Florah. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z On some of the shelves the books were propping up glass display cases of beetles pinned to cardboard, which only made Meggie dislike Elinor all the more. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In Baba’s bus, I counted the miles until I’d see her sitting barefoot, arranging cardboard boxes of yellowed encyclopedias, her heels white against the asphalt, silver bracelets jingling around her slender wrists. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “This is your lucky day. Go and remove the cardboard, but be good in the future.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z After that she put a cake with pink and purple flowers in a cardboard box from the grocery store on the kitchen table and told us to have some. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Afterward I tell Michael he looks like a pear even though he looks more like a kid in a squished cardboard box. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But when you hit a piece of cardboard with a stick it makes a loud noise, and sure enough when I was called up to be punished—Smack! Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z He was holding a dunce cap—an honest-to-goodness cardboard cone that said dunce. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His silhouette was framed like a cardboard cutout against the burning flares. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They are all chowing down on cardboard pizza and freeze-dried mashed potatoes. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one cardboard notice pinned over the counter that had been done in coloured felt-tips, and at the top of it was the word “look” with a staring eye drawn inside each “o.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Russo, who helped out many nights, devised the time-saving innovation of taping two strips of cardboard to the glass of the Xerox machine. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I pointed to one of the cardboard cans on the counter. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z We make a huge Valentine’s Day postbox out of a cardboard box covered with pink crepe paper and red hearts with paper doily edging. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z There are shelves beneath the window with stacks of paper bags and small cardboard boxes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But Doug went on in, and he came back out carrying the cardboard box for Number 166 from the Coat Room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Beatrice worked a night shift, folding cardboard at a packaging factory that made boxes for takeout pizza chains. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z |
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