How to Use cardboard in a Sentence

cardboard

1 of 2 noun

• Cover the windows with cardboard.
• One piece of a limb sat in a cardboard box on the front steps.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• Attach the cardboard to the bottom of the filters with tape.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• During the next few days, if the cardboard gets dried out, mist it again.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 25 Apr. 2023
• Which gives a bunny the idea: to don a cardboard box and act like a robot.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
• To make your own tassels, wrap yarn around a small piece of cardboard.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
• The fastest way to turn your brown sugar into a brick is to leave it in the cardboard box its often sold in.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• In the kitchen, the walk-in refrigerator lay tossed like a cardboard box.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• Studio chief Kevin Feige was in a small room with a simple cardboard Iron Man poster as a prop.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
• The cardboard holders have weighted magnets to keep the dividers in place.
  — Addie Morton, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2023
• For more stability, paint the hair over a piece of cardboard.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 17 Feb. 2023
• The cardboard is wax-coated to enable flights in wet weather.
  — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
• Each puzzle is packaged in a 10-inch-long cardboard tube.
  — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2023
• Wrap them in a frost blanket, a sheet or a piece of cardboard, or aim a fan at them to prevent cold air from settling.
  — Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• The set comes with three double-sided sheets instead of on a roll to eliminate the cardboard tube and lessen waste.
  — Brigitt Earley, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• Tyler called her, laughing at the influx of cardboard boxes.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• Scurry up to your attic and dig through those old cardboard boxes to find your old games.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2023
• The sheets arrived packaged with cardboard inside a cloth bag.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2023
• There are many misconceptions about gluten-free food, but the one that irks me the most is the idea that gluten-free baked goods have the taste and texture of cardboard.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• Some lay on cardboard, covered by Mylar blankets, while others slept on the ground in just the clothes on their backs.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 11 May 2023
• Next, using wood or cardboard letters, spell out the phrase on your canvas.
  — Claire Hoppe, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2023
• Over in the student section, Parker Hill flashed a cardboard cutout of Justice’s face.
  — John Raby, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
• Above also hangs a cardboard replica of a boxcar in which the Nazis would transport people to camps.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• Many have been sleeping on stairs, often laying just over a sheet of cardboard.
  — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• From a corner, a cardboard cutout of Trump gazed at them, his thumb raised in one of his signature poses.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2023
• From cardboard boxes to toy pots and pans, these are the strangest things my five kids have actually played with.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 6 Feb. 2024
• Glue the open end of the paper-towel tube to the cardboard square (adult supervision needed).
  — Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
• Instead, the campers build solar ovens out of cardboard boxes and aluminum foil.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 22 July 2023
• The supplies required are as simple as an empty cardboard tube with a tinfoil pinhole at one end and a piece of white paper at the other.
  — Daniel Johnson, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• Observers can place a piece of white cardboard out in their yard and measure snow accumulation, for example.
  — Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2024

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cardboard

2 of 2 adjective

• The play had cardboard characters.
• Realmuto's drive in the fifth gave the Phillies their first lead, and the ball bounced off a cardboard cutout of a toddler in the left-field stands.
  — Rob Maaddi, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• The eggs are sold in cardboard egg cartons, ungraded, and they have not been cleaned, at least not much.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
• The cutouts — which sort of gave fans a chance to feel part of it — were cardboard reminders that real people weren’t allowed.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2021
• His target, a cardboard stencil of a human body, dangled from an easel across the room.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2021
• Run in loops around St. James’s Park, the race featured cardboard-cutout spectators and a small field of elite runners.
  — Mark Naida, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• The resurgence of vinyl isn’t about owning a large round disc inside of a cardboard envelope.
  — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• About the merch: Bobbleheads of the pompadour-wearing 'Big Boy' are for sale, as are cardboard pompadours.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2019
• The reality series follows the crew of a charter yacht, and Terchek changed the name of her cardboard tribute to match the yacht on each season of the show.
  — Hannah Herrera Greenspan, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• Major gets cardboard soda flats from gas stations and uses them to sort, store and haul.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• So far, none of the cardboard fans at MLB ballparks have tested positive.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2020
• Above the text is a photo purportedly of the 9-year-old boy and an image of a cardboard version of the Nintendo game.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2021
• Lucas selects a thin cardboard canvas from a thick stack.
  — Alexis E. Barton, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• Gather a selection of thin sticks in various lengths, then glue them to a cardboard form.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Oct. 2022
• That's where a scratching post or cardboard scratcher comes into play.
  — Carly Kulzer, PEOPLE.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• When sports finally returned at the end of July, the players were bubbled, the fans were cardboard, and nothing felt right.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2020
• The arcade balls will zip down the pipe and – here’s the good part – pop out of the mouth of a 5-foot-tall sinister-looking, cardboard creature that’s part space invader and part ghost.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• Cockroaches can chew through cardboard and thin plastic that many food products are stored in.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 July 2020
• Britons are shopping for food in supermarkets with cardboard produce stacked where the real stuff used to be.
  — Douglas Board, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2021
• At shows, protect your stamps in a cardboard envelope and stay away from amateurs.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2020
• Thursday’s crowd, though sparse due to legal restrictions, was very much non-cardboard.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2021
• Saraga was carrying a cardboard wine box full of provisions handed out at the high school.
  — J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 6 Oct. 2020
• While the villain is pretty cardboard, this movie is about family and growing up so the sci-fi portion is merely a backdrop.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 11 Mar. 2022
• Actual fans, to be clear, not the cardboard variety that were cute to begin with but now thankfully need to find new homes in closets across the country.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
• And far better than having to stare at cardboard renditions of fans in stands with nauseating piped in applause and cheers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2021
• Christmas crackers are cardboard tubes filled with surprises and jokes.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
• There's no equivalent of the shoddy, cardboard cutout effect seen in that Hendrix clip, or in other hit-and-miss footage from 3D movies or television.
  — Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2010
• The cardboard pictorial cards are still sought today for their art and messaging.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2021
• The craft of the day was a recycled piece of cardboard toilet paper roll, decorative tape and wooden wheels to create a car model.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2022
• Build some cardboard creations — forts, houses, cars — with all those Amazon boxes.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024