Enclose or confine as if in a box.
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Examples for "box up "
Examples for "box up "
1 In a beautiful box up - stairs the Fluffy Ruffles doll stared at him.
2 Jason came and we had that box up and I opened it.
3 Would Pearl box up the wedding cake in the little white boxes?
4 And I opened my wooden box up and there was my microscope.
5 A little metal box up on the top shelf drew his attention.
1 Outside the box in this city was a dangerous place to be.
2 The party has also suffered at the ballot box in local elections.
3 Stockings and slippers to match in a box in the bottom drawer.
4 This evening I found a sixpence in the box in my room.
5 I myself put it into the post- box in the village that evening.
6 Fogarty said, 'See if there's a small box in the drawer, Henry.
7 Fifteen minutes later he came out with a box in his pocket.
8 Susan went on toward the house with the box in her arms.
9 He applied perpetually to the snuff- box in the knob of his cane.
10 She drove to Paddington, and left the box in the cloak room.
11 There is eight hundred dollars in a tin box in my trunk.
12 Every other box in the load was full of pickaxes and spades.
13 It is not worth while to open your box in the rain.
14 Then, about a week later I got a box in the mail.
15 They were wrapped in paper in a cardboard box in my rucksack.
16 Taking the box in his hand, he went out into the boat-room.
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