hatbox

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Recent Examples of hatbox Cords dangle uncovered from teensy lamps, pens live in a vintage-looking tomato can, and there’s a random magic 8 ball next to the huge hatbox for the huge hat. Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 12 June 2025 On the floor is a hatbox from a hat shop in London. Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024 The ghost was intended to be an opening day character whose head disappeared before guests’ eyes then reappeared in a hatbox in his hand. Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023 Stephen and Elizabeth burst in carrying a hatbox with the trilby in it. Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2023 Other new additions include Venus et Fleur’s Gardenia Magnifica blooms that hail from Japan and are designed to last a year; the Toile de Joie hatbox; the L’Atelier Vert Candle and more. Charlie Carballo, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatbox
Noun
  • The Pinnacle's importance to emerging, independent-minded, hard-touring country acts To the untrained eye, The Pinnacle is a raw bandbox that feels like a split-level airplane hangar where superstars play pop music.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • As for the transplanted Tucker, playing home games at Wrigley Field, a notorious bandbox, should help raise his value.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • One snuffbox had been a present for George V on his 55th birthday in 1920 while the other featured 3,000 diamonds and was bought by Queen Mary in 1932 for £1,000, the equivalent in modern money of around $75,000 according to the Bank of England's inflation calculator.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The snuffbox is the most widespread of the Epioblasma genus of mussels.
    Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • The dining section includes Le Petit RH, an upscale restaurant envisaged as a jewel box, featuring a menu of caviar specialties, small plates, signature salads and seafood towers.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But in late summer, when the city’s Swan Queens have flown upstate or migrated overseas, the Art Deco jewel box presents a ballet festival.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 9 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Inspectors found a total of seven live German cockroaches under the two- compartment sink and along the back wall of the soda dispenser.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Then, dry the inside completely with a clean rag, including drying the drawers and any compartments for the detergents, and then wipe down the exterior.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Two coffins are also displayed on either side of the gallows, which sits beneath a second, larger Mexican flag, according to FNTV.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The waterless Wadi Hammamat between the Nile and the Red Sea was quarried for the siltstone formed from ancient river sediment that had hardened over millions of years to provide a limitless supply of stone coffins (sarcophagi).
    Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Inside were two floors, plus a subterranean vault for storage.
    Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
  • There's also an underground vault, two observation platforms, telescopes and an airstrip.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In June 2025, the caisson program restarted following an $18 million overhaul by the Army.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 July 2025
  • The refurbishment included a complete overhaul, including a paint job, the repairing of caisson cracks, window and door replacements, cleaning and re-pointing of the foundation masonry, restoring all wood floors, and reconstruction of the intermediate landing between the bridge and gangway.
    Michael P. McKinney, USA Today, 7 June 2025

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“Hatbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatbox. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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