card·board
ˈkärd-ˌbȯrd 
: a material made from cellulose fiber (such as wood pulp) like paper but usually thicker
1
: made of or as if of cardboard
2
: unreal, stereotyped
a play with cardboard characters
Examples of cardboard in a Sentence
Noun
Cover the windows with cardboard.
Adjective
The play had cardboard characters.
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Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
But Tennessee Williams didn’t say anything about remembrance of things past necessarily rendering people into cardboard and circumstance into stereotype.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Polos, walking home from the theatre late at night, still wearing his makeup, ashes in a cardboard urn in his backpack.
—Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Something as simple as a cardboard card can be a gold mine in the baseball memorabilia world.
—Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
But Tennessee Williams didn’t say anything about remembrance of things past necessarily rendering people into cardboard and circumstance into stereotype.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
The packaging may still arrive in a box, but the business inside has moved far beyond the cardboard era.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Polos, walking home from the theatre late at night, still wearing his makeup, ashes in a cardboard urn in his backpack.
—Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Cardboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cardboard. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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