How to use "box" in a sentence

Then she saw a little box under the table

I haven't got any chocolates.' But then she saw a box of chocolates near her feet.

'Here we are,' she said, and opened the box

'I can have the box,' said Alice sadly.

They all stood round Alice again, and the Dodo gave her the box.

'Please take this beautiful box,' he said.

She took the box and smiled politely.

One day a big box of bananas fell down on my daddy and killed him.

A boy of about ten years old was coming along a footpath with a small box on his back and dirty knees showing through holes in his trousers

He ran to a nearby streetlight and pulled some wire from a metal box at its base

Cosette had brought her letter case and blotter with her, Valjean his box of child's clothing and the old National Guard uniform which all respectable men possessed, and which he had worn under a previous identity.

Then he pulls a box from the bag, opens it carefully, and looks at the diamonds.

The box shuts in an instant, and then the gun is in his hand.

He looks to the right wall and sees what he is looking for: a large wooden box with two doors.

Quietly he walks past the pews and stops near the box

As he does not want them to see his face, he pulls open the left door to the box and enters.

I looked round for a box of matches, but I could not find one

Yes, there was a box of matches on the table

I locked the door and took the dress from its box

I put the white dress and the wig back into the box

Danny had liked to draw, and the easel, complete with a box of pencils and pens and paints, had been a birthday gift when he was nine

She had at least enough time to make a start, box up the boy's clothes, if nothing else.

She stood indecisively in the center of the small kitchen, trying to find the willpower to go to Danny's room and box his clothes, as she had planned

He was glaring up at her from inside the box

She stepped back from the cardboard box.

Curious about the story from which the illustration had been taken, Tina stepped to the box again to pluck out the graphic novel

It was in a box with a lot of other magazines."

And that was where the paradox jumped up like a jack-in-the-box

Alexander put down the enameled cigarette box that he had been studying

They're on the table closest to the outer door - that black box full of diskettes

'Uncle Elias went immediately to the secret room and took out a box which also had three Ks on it

He burnt all the papers in the box, and said to me, "John, I know that I'm going to die soon

"Which papers? The papers in Uncle Elias's box? He burnt them!" I said.

Put this paper into your uncle's box, put in a letter which says that your uncle burnt all the other papers, and put the box outside in the garden

I knew that Henri had caught the fly because it looked different from other flies, but I also knew that his father hated cruelty to animals and that there would be a fuss if he discovered our son had put a fly in a box or bottle.

'Yes, I saw you bury a small box.'

But I've got the bullet for you.' He pushed a little box along the table.

'But there was a box of bullets beside it

Then he took a small box from his pocket, took a pill from the box, and swallowed it with the water.

I took a box of matches from my pocket

So he came back here with Mr Hawes last night and, I think, managed to put some much stronger pills in Mr Hawes' box

'Suppose Dr Haydock mentioned that Mrs Sadler had seen him changing the pills in Mr Hawes' box - well, if Mr Redding is innocent, that would mean nothing to him

They carry a kind of box that shoots fire and strikes you dead.'

I saw one old man with a big box and a number of flower-pots, angrily arguing with a soldier who wanted him to leave them behind.

They saw the three thin figures separating and rising out of the water as they moved back towards the shore, and one of them raised the box that fired his Heat-Ray

It did not use its Heat-Ray, but picked them up one by one and threw them into a large metal box which stuck out behind it.

That old remedy worked better than a box of modern pills.