How to Use pillbox in a Sentence

pillbox

noun

• Pink tweeds, pillbox hat, tiaras to spare: Claire’s gone full method.
  — Vogue, 10 Oct. 2018
• Sure enough, the concrete pillbox emerged from the greenery soon after.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2021
• The pillbox-size case on the Pro is a bit bigger than the cases on earlier models.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2019
• Kaia hit the runway in a bright orange skirt suit, pillbox hat, and matching pumps.
  — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2018
• Princess Kate wore the same brown pillbox hat with bow for the maternity fashion moments and refreshed the look with a nude clutch and heels in 2018.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023
• Throughout the Expo, hostesses wore pale blue A-line skirts, blazers and pillbox hats.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 22 June 2017
• In 1956, a young woman in a white pillbox hat would not have talked about liminal boundaries.
  — Jennifer Reese, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• Someone else carried the pink pillbox hat that the first lady had torn off her head after her husband was shot.
  — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• The clerk knitted her brows, but Xiaolei was sheepish and insistent, and at last the woman shrugged and gave her the pen and a piece of thin gray cardboard, the inside of a pillbox, to try it on.
  — Te-Ping Chen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2020
• After the engineers had cleared a path for the assault infantry to advance on the pillboxes, the first heavy equipment to come ashore was the bulldozers.
  — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2017
• The Rosa Parks doll wears an elegant black pillbox hat and clutch, along with gloves, high-heeled booties, eyeglasses, and a grey 3/4 length coat over a floral printed dress.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• Eugenie sported a light blue dress topped with a pillbox hat, while Brooksbank opted for dark suit with a light blue tie to match his fianceé.
  — Temi Adebowale, Town & Country, 2 July 2018
• But perhaps the pillbox wasn’t a bridge abutment, but rather an aboveground overflow tank for the sanitary district.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2021
• While Meghan, 37, accessorized the look with a cream coat and a matching pillbox hat, the British designer put her own spin on the dress, pairing it with sunglasses and some bright pink heels.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 15 June 2019
• The Duchess pulled off a full outfit change in between the two, swapping a bespoke Erdem look for a white coat and Victoria Beckham dress, topped with a stylish pillbox hat.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2019
• This premium pillbox, just 1.25 inches tall, totes teensy things in style.
  — WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
• Some surprise guests also showed up at the premiere, including Kim Cattrall who sported a chic, retro-style black pillbox hat, and posed with Star on the red carpet.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
• Middleton created her version of this trend on St. Patrick's Day by pairing a seafoam green coat with a matching pillbox hat.
  — Brittany Natale, Woman's Day, 25 Apr. 2023
• Hiking a little further will bring you to the second pillbox, offering more stunning views of the bright blue Pacific Ocean.
  — Fox News, 9 Apr. 2022
• Another idea the group plans to incorporate: a smart pillbox that can reveal when someone is, or isn’t, taking their medicine.
  — Shirley S. Wang, WSJ, 28 May 2018
• For this fall, things took a darker turn: cylindrical clutches come in silver, oxblood and painted python, while a black pillbox is sweetened with gold polka-dots.
  — Christine Lennon, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 July 2012
• Among the throngs of well-heeled, young-to-early-middle-aged women dressed fashionably yet sensibly for the chilly weather are a handful wearing pink suits and pillbox hats in homage to Elle Woods.
  — Zoë Ghertner, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2019
• Continuing on the theme of bows, the Chanel bride—personified by actor Margaret Qualley—wore her hair slicked back under a black pillbox hat adorned with a white bow.
  — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 6 July 2021
• There’s an oh-so-English affect to the staffers guiding visitors from the station to the entrance, kitted out in scarlet red capes and pillbox hats like flunkies on loan from Buckingham Palace.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2018
• The plan was to do something similar to the king: Military bodyguards were recruited to replace pills in his pillbox with female hormones.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• As the flag was being raised on Mount Suribachi, Williams was crawling through trenches with a 70-pound flamethrower taking out enemy pillboxes.
  — Robert Steiner, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2018
• The liquor store was especially sketchy — across the street from a social-services building, with all the itinerancy that that entails — and the cashier sat in the kind of plexiglass pillbox that wasn’t built to keep out the coronavirus.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Built like the proverbial German pillbox, the satisfaction of just closing its doors is sufficient reason to own the vehicle.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2021
• The downside is that, because the hats stay put during the ceremony, guests can’t guarantee that their view of the happy couple won’t be blocked by a jaunty pillbox number edged in fake flowers.
  — Erin Donnelly, Marie Claire, 5 Jan. 2018
• But having this particular show’s finale in sight wasn’t, with two hours still not feeling quite a big enough pillbox after almost 50 years of music-making that involved a 25-year lull on the rock end.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024