How to Use shoebox in a Sentence

shoebox

noun

• Cut circles in the top of a shoebox and drop in treats for your cat to fish out.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 Jan. 2023
• In our shoebox of a dorm room, Vic’s head crept above the pillows.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• Put two rocks on the floor and use your toes to try to pick one up and deposit it in a shoebox.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 July 2021
• The footwear also comes housed in a cool shoebox complete with a set of dog tags like the ones the band used to rock.
  — Ron Hart, SPIN, 13 Dec. 2022
• Some are small, the size of a shoebox; others are much larger.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
• If the teacher’s system is to collect them all in a shoebox?
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
• Yorick talks about Elvis' twin brother Jesse, who was stillborn and buried in a shoebox.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• However, the work astern put such a steep rake in the hatch that the rear window presents the effective height of a shoebox.
  — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 12 July 2022
• Siobhán is on her way to Colm’s house with the bloody finger in a shoebox when she is stopped in her tracks by the sound of shelling far away in the mainland.
  — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
• Each weather balloon has a device about the size of a shoebox attached to it called a radiosonde.
  — Leah Vredenbregt, ABC News, 13 Feb. 2023
• But the clearing out of some office clutter last year led to the finding of the dress in an old shoebox, and now it's headed for the auction block.
  — Deepti Hajela, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
• Household savings are not like a shoebox stuffed with cash that is being spent down.
  — Mike Sommers, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024
• Everyone seems to have a spot like that, a shoebox, junk drawer or shelf in the hallway closet.
  — Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2021
• Unbeknownst to me, the father had stored three handguns and bullets in a shoebox.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
• The Lunar IceCube is about the size of a shoebox, Matallana said, and has been in production for about seven years.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2022
• Whiskey — named after his dad’s drink of choice — is a 15-week-old Bengal that looks like a leopard, if a leopard could sleep in a shoebox.
  — Meaghan Garvey, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2022
• Ben Williams opens up a blue shoebox, and history comes pouring out.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• This battery, about the size of a shoebox, powered the latest upgrade to the fighter's suite of stealth technologies.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
• Fans would keep a small portion of the ticket -- the stub -- showing their seat location, and a few would end up in scrapbooks and stacks of stubs in a shoebox.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2021
• One is a note from his birth mother, and the other is the blanket in which the days-old baby was swaddled in when he was placed inside a shoebox.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
• Across the hall was the shoemakers’ shop, lined floor to ceiling with cardboard shoeboxes.
  — Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
• The brains were then put into a machine about the size of a shoebox that prepared all the samples for sequencing in about 20 minutes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
• In a lab in Cambridge, Mass., a vacuum chamber the size of a shoebox has made history.
  — Shannon Palus, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2014
• The morning after Poitier’s birth, his father procured a shoebox in which to bury the infant.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2022
• The likelihood of his survival was so uncertain that his father returned home with a shoebox to bury him at the time.
  — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• Kaleb names his new spider Rihanna, then gives her a temporary home in a shoebox that happens to have a hole in it.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
• The likelihood of his survival was so remote, his father returned home with a shoebox in which to bury the baby, the last of his many siblings.
  — Alynda Wheat (@alyndawheat), PEOPLE.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• The power supply is nice and compact, unlike some docking stations that have power bricks the size of a shoebox.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Does Grandpa have a shoebox (or five) of negatives of photos long since misplaced, or even old slides?
  — Christina Vercelletto, CNN Underscored, 13 June 2020
• Half a shoebox full of Schedule II narcotics with a street value of over a hundred thousand dollars.
  — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024