boxful

How to use boxful in a sentence

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

  The Carroll Girls | Mabel Quiller-Couch

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

  Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship | Mabell S. C. Smith

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

  Foe-Farrell | Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

• 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.

  Beautiful Shells of New Zealand | E. G. B. Moss

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

  The Petticoat Commando | Johanna Brandt