boxful
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boxfuls
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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
The stallholder hauled a boxful of books further under the canvas, to ensure that it did not get wet.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Mr. Ege’s family had long stored boxfuls of material.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 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
But Garrett worried that they will scatter across the region as bidders take boxfuls home.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2010
The society has also been sorting through Millay’s paperwork; Ellis left boxfuls of files with cryptic notes like “Requests unanswered.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2010
Once every four or five boxfuls, a pigeon got away clean.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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