boxful
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Dr. Wen recommended donning at a minimum a three-ply surgical mask — the disposable variety widely sold by the boxful — but better still are the respirators, starting with the gold standard, the N95.
From Washington Times • Jan. 5, 2022
When I was a boy, my father — not a reader himself — would sometimes pay a dollar or two for an odd boxful of books from a yard sale.
From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2021
Back in the dingy chaos of his lab, Spence pointed out a boxful of unlabelled beverage cans, of all different sizes and shapes.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2015
No fan of nuclear weapons, he compared plutonium to a boxful of mousetraps loaded with ping-pong balls, into which you drop one ball to detonate it.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2014
Neeley had a boxful of “miggies,” small brown and blue speckled marbles made of clay which cost a penny for twenty.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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