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boxful

/boks-fool/US // ˈbɒks fʊl //

盒装,盒装的,盒状,盒式

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural box·fuls.

    • : as much as a box can hold: a boxful of cornflakes.

Examples

  • She had been very quiet for some time, absorbed in a boxful of the packets of flower-seeds, with gay pictures outside.

  • "We want them to arrive with some shape still left to them and not merely a boxful of crumbs," said Ethel Brown earnestly.

  • But I had a boxful of matches in my trouser pocket, half-emptied: and, as it turned out, Farrell had preserved another.

  • Or they may be buried in a boxful of clean sand or sandy soil, and the sand kept moist by watering it every few days.

  • Jannie said he knew of none, except a boxful of cartridges standing in the loft.