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  • noun Plural form of carton.

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Examples

  • Note that the "egg beater" products you buy in cartons are actually egg based, so if someone's allergic those are not going to be helpful at all.

    Reduce Or Eliminate Eggs With These Egg Substitutes | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • It fell out of fashion due to health issues but if you use pasterurized whites (they come in cartons at the store), there's no danger.

    Neapolitan Cupcakes 2008

  • The victim, now 19, whom the Independent on Sunday has agreed to identify only as Hassan, says he was rounded up with a friend while trying to steal milk cartons from a food distribution centre.

    ‘No One Expected the British to be Worse than Saddam Hussein’ | Disinformation 2008

  • See also the folder "Sieur Gonin cartons à l'anglaise pour apprêt" AN F/12/2415. back

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • I also brought my grandfather clock (which came apart into three sections and could be packed in cartons), my photos, my computer and stereo equipment, personal items and my Christmas decorations -- five boxes of them.

    Mexico living: five questions 1997

  • I also brought my grandfather clock (which came apart into three sections and could be packed in cartons), my photos, my computer and stereo equipment, personal items and my Christmas decorations -- five boxes of them.

    Mexico living: five questions 1997

  • After pasteurizing and homogenizing, two computerized machines squirt the milk at a rate of 300 half-gallons per minute into private-label cartons that eventually make their way to Costco, Target, Safeway, Wal-Mart and roughly a dozen other retailers in all 50 states.

    Cornucopia Institute 2008

  • Here, children grow up knowing that eggs come from chickens, not in cartons, that pulling gently but firmly on a cow’s teat produces warm milk, that days begin and end in the fields, that sometimes you hop on rattling buses in order to exchange bread for beans with a distant neighbor.

    Cancun To Oaxaca - The Bus Ride Of 27 Pedicures 2007

  • Here, children grow up knowing that eggs come from chickens, not in cartons, that pulling gently but firmly on a cow’s teat produces warm milk, that days begin and end in the fields, that sometimes you hop on rattling buses in order to exchange bread for beans with a distant neighbor.

    Cancun To Oaxaca - The Bus Ride Of 27 Pedicures 2007

  • Wright County Egg, an Iowa producer, is recalling cartons of 6, 12, and 18 eggs for possible salmonella contamination.

    Eggs recalled for possible salmonella contamination 2010

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