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- noun Plural form of
box . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
box .
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Examples
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In the sentence, _The SALE of boxes was increased, sale_, not _boxes_, is the subject of the verb.
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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We will not watch him cut the throat of this country and I'm tired of watching young people being shipped home in boxes from the middle east.
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To the right of the boxes is a bookshelf holding mostly indie titles.
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"Myth and Manpower" at the jewel-box sized Craft and Folk Art Museum packed in a show that takes artwork from California fruit label boxes and marketing and juxtaposes them with artwork cultivated for use as protest posters for United Farm Workers.
Wyatt Closs: Worker Worthy Standouts: Part 5 - Art & Books 2010
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"Myth and Manpower" at the jewel-box sized Craft and Folk Art Museum packed in a show that takes artwork from California fruit label boxes and marketing and juxtaposes them with artwork cultivated for use as protest posters for United Farm Workers.
Wyatt Closs: Worker Worthy Standouts: Part 5 - Art & Books 2010
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For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops nor bottoms) full of money;
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For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops nor bottoms) full of money; I see also two tablets of accounts.
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882
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For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops or bottom) full of money; I see also two tablets of accounts.
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882
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Fixed: Pasting text into ISO9660 volume label boxes allowed for characters that should have been restricted (it bypassed the normal checks).
CD Freaks News 2009
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Just check the local landfill and you’ll see that voids in boxes is not all these products are filling.
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