boxful
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boxfuls
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The night before, she was very excited as it felt like a wedding celebration, with a "boxful" of clothes and gifts prepared for them.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2023
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
She had kept it: he had plenty of others, a whole boxful on top of his dresser, every day tucking one into the point of each collar to keep it stiff.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Pascal Lacombe, an author of an Aymé monograph published in 2012, said that boxfuls of paperwork from her apartment were accidentally incinerated after her death.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2015
The university bought it along with boxfuls of photos and documents related to Merton and his biographer John Howard Griffin, to add to the library’s extensive Merton files.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2015
She had brought along boxfuls of her forebear’s work, representing his favorite motifs like buffaloes, elephants, snakes and panthers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2012
But Garrett worried that they will scatter across the region as bidders take boxfuls home.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2010
Once every four or five boxfuls, a pigeon got away clean.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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