boxroom
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I will nod quietly when asked about an IT problem I will take Erskine’s advice and learn to laugh at myself, and the fact that it costs $$$ to rent an outer city boxroom.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2015
She knew very well that the children would be far less troublesome if they had a place to themselves, and she said, 'Well, Val, you shall have the boxroom in the attics.
From Beechcroft at Rockstone by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
I used all the cottonwool, then finding there was not enough to wrap up the vase properly, I fetched some more which was in a large boxroom on the same first floor.
From My Memoirs by Steinheil, Marguerite
Within was a pitch-dark cupboard-like boxroom, hot, stuffy, and smelling of dust and old leather.
From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous
Looking out of the boxroom window was like looking down on the top of a green forest, Phyllis always thought.
From Oswald Bastable and Others by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)
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