• The reason I hadn't finished this particular box of cornflakes was because my mum had recently replenished it with the contents of a new box.
• When we think of traditional food, some folks get a vision of a big bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken and a family box of fries.
• A gloved hand slammed merrily on a wooden table, shaking the contents on it and clattering a box of various tools to the floor.

• Like millions of others in the affluent West, I have spent much of the last month glued to the box, watching as the world hurtled out of control.
• but all I really did as a kid was play in the street and watch the box.
• Watch it on the box when it's hopefully been distilled into something worth watching.

• Unplugging and plugging back in the box didn't do anything either.
• Over here, we have the dead power supply which came out of our box, and over here we have the replacement power supply.
• You don't always need to have the latest and greatest hardware (but it helps) to get the most out of your box.

• They stand up, slowly, then pace their dispassionate bodies toward those two coffins, coffin-like boxes.
• It began look like I was the product of some genetic experiment involving something kept in 3 coffin shaped boxes.

• You can understand the thinking: with support workers there to tick boxes and fill in forms, skilled staff would be freed up for more demanding jobs.
• Now they're forced to tick boxes and fill paperwork in.
• It was a bit of a theme among players and staff in the wake of this triumph, a result that proves Gretna tick the only boxes that matter.

• Leonti stared at the information box displayed on the main monitor of the Sestuan.
• Participants were asked to guess which of four identical boxes appearing on the screen had been selected by the computer.
• Double-clicking on the directory brings the user to the Linux box with the test data, without realizing it.

• They'll buy this car because it's cheap, and as a result of that, they're going to be tearing around Britain's yellow boxes and bus lanes in a genuinely very good little car.
• The green cycle lanes and advance stop boxes at traffic lights across the city make life safer for cyclists and could well be saving lives, but accidents that don't happen don't get into the press.
• At every set of traffic lights on the way queuing drivers blocked the cycle lanes and priority boxes.

• Amoruso rose to meet a Ricksen corner and the ball broke in the six-yard box and Flo smacked it into the net for his 21st of the season.
• He carried the ball at pace from halfway towards the box before cracking a right-foot shot from 20 yards out.
• The Hearts captain, in possession, tried to check his run in the box and was bumped over by his pursuer.

• As a batter steps into the box, Vin tells you where he comes from, what his mother and father do, or what he likes to read.
• This leaves the umpire in a position of judgment as to whether or not the batter is properly in the box at least six inches away from home plate.
• What is clear is that as a result the batter's box was obliterated.

• The fishing behind the boxes has slowed down considerably due to the havoc caused by the seals that come into the Ridge Pool with the high tide.
• Ahern was instrumental in retaining a much reduced Irish fishing box, much to the disgust of the Spanish.

• Drop it down to second with some clunking from the sequential box, the revs rise, press the pedal to the floor and the world blurs.
• Most people assume the higher the horsepower rating on the box, the better the air compressor.

• As we were getting changed, I noticed some of my new team-mates were putting on what looked like cricket boxes.
• He wonders why European sportsmen don't wear boxes to protect themselves from such painful eventualities, when Americans are so keen on them.

• She tells him the name of a real ship and says his father is a sailor, even writing letters from this imaginary dad and sending them via a post-office box.
• Residents are being urged to help the fight against crime the next time they send a letter with the introduction of police crime boxes in post offices.

• Procedures relating to topics within the chapter are boxed in and numbered so that the reader can quickly recognize them.
• Cis-regulatory elements described in the text are boxed.
• The Walker A, Walker B, and ABC signatures are boxed.

• Mr Reed said the other man stayed in the car but two members of the public used their vehicles to box him in.
• They tried to box her in, but she moved too quickly.
• The Ferrari then pulled in close in front of him, braking, while the Mercedes drew close behind, boxing him in.

Synonyms

• He once confessed to owning the prized possessions of a superb board of bird's-eye maple and Moluccan ebony, edged in sycamore, an 1871 boxwood and ebony Staunton set, plus a chess clock by Grant's of Stamford.
• Once in a while the really dense woods, such as boxwood and ebony can fool me, and I really have to work hard to tell the difference between Madasgar and Honduras rosewood.