(n.) A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(2) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
(3) His website sells direct to the public, with prices starting from £245 for a plain cardboard coffin, as well as offering a comparison service.
(4) The few that remain benefit from ample provisions, friendly volunteers and cardboard-and-curtain partitions designed by the world-famous architect, Shigeru Ban .
(5) For primary explorers, build habitats out of cardboard with sticky tape and get them to decorate their designs.
(6) But it's the images of women and their children marching through the night that stick most in the mind: infants toting cardboard coffins, mothers chanting hate.
(7) At the head of the march one man carried a handwritten cardboard sign that read: "Lonmin, who gave you power to kill us on our own land?
(8) A giant Trump mask and a cardboard coffin were displayed.
(9) [Paul] said, ‘That’s all great, but take Her Majesty out now; it doesn’t work.’” Studio rules meant any edited material had to be left at the end of the mix, so Kurlander left nearly 20 seconds before Her Majesty, and put the tape in Abbey Road’s tin of masters – crucially, not the basic cardboard box that they used for rough cuts.
(10) The artist Luis Manuel Serrano has given collage workshops at the jail for more than 10 years, helping women tell their stories by cutting images out of magazines and gluing them to large pieces of cardboard.
(11) Histological sections of biopsy material having been embedded in paraffin were projected on cardboard.
(12) Every major city will house a glamorous gentrified enclave to which only successful social brand identities (or "people" as they used to be known) with more than 300,000 followers will be permitted entry, and a load of cardboard boxes and dog shit on the outside for everybody else.
(13) This graphically attractive and terribly useful deck of cards presents information about the eco credentials of 45 widely used materials such as cardboard and PLA (polylactic acid) in a simple way that lets you see their environmental impact at a glance.
(14) There was the traditional method: Mazzella could have stood by the side of the road with a cardboard sign, but that seemed very low-tech.
(15) "The UK produces 2m tonnes of cardboard boxes a year.
(16) Oh hold on, that's suddenly gone off air to be replaced by a piece of cardboard presumably held up by some fashionably-coiffed work experience chump, reading "USA v Algeria coming up".
(17) Now staff and volunteers hunched over the infirm, dispensing sips of water and fanning them with bits of cardboard.
(18) But so often, open worlds are built from architectural filler – bland unending landscapes and cardboard box tenements.
(19) Harry Redknapp does his big fish, little fish, cardboard box routine.
(20) For making a just fit size prosthesis, we cut off a cardboard as the same size as the specimen and the Acryl-resin Marlex sandwich is molded from the cardboard.
Matchstick
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He enjoyed quiet jokes and liked telling an interviewer that he could never be prime minister because he did his sums with matchsticks.
(2) To do this follow the same method as above but, when you are stitching through the holes, hold a toothpick or matchstick on top of the button and stitch over it (a) - see illustration below).
(3) Cooked beetroot, cut into matchsticks Cabbage, white or red, finely shredded Preserved lemon segments, pulp removed, rinsed, peeled thinly, cut into matchsticks Red onion, peeled and thinly sliced Hot-smoked trout or salmon fillets, cut into strips For the dressing 1 small pot of sour cream 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp milk ¼ tsp caster sugar 1 tbsp finely grated lemon zest 1 Arrange your salad ingredients on a large platter or individual plates, leaving the fish until last.
(4) They had another UK Top 10 hit later that year with Ice in the Sun, but their debut album, Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo, failed to chart.
(5) Many were in decrepit tower-blocks, sky high and matchstick small.
(6) The fragment is attached with 2 or 3 matchstick-size bone graft taken from the proximal tibia.
(7) Peel the ginger and slice into very fine matchsticks.
(8) You may need : Tape measure Needle Thread Scissors Toothpick or matchstick 1 .
(9) In comparison, the extracardiac rhabdomyoma filaments were more disorderly and many cases had hypertrophic Z bands corresponding to the jackstraw or matchstick structures seen with the light microscope.
(10) Briefly steam the broccoli then divide, together with the beanshoots and matchsticks of ginger, between 4 deep bowls.
(11) Patients (n = 404) with osteoarthrosis and control subjects (n = 233) were studied to examine the communicational value of five styles of illustration (cartoon (C), matchstick (M), representational (R), symbolic (S), photographic (P) and two levels of text ('easy', 'hard'), presented as educational booklets about osteoarthrosis.
(12) A former matchstick factory has been transformed into three bars.
(13) In the 60s, their management convinced them that psychedelia was the way ahead, so they wore their gaudy colours and had a hit with the haunting Pictures Of Matchstick Men.
(14) He ended with a warning: "Comrade Jintao, a single matchstick is enough for the arsonist, but putting out the fire would take a great effort."
(15) A year after that, from the opposition front bench, he was able to make the mild claim that his matchsticks seemed to work at least as well as Labour's economic devices and advisers.
(16) The movement consisted in moving a matchstick to and fro between the index finger (II) and the little finger (V).
(17) The new lineup – Parfitt and Rossi plus the drummer John Coghlan, bassist Alan Lancaster and keyboard player Roy Lynes – immediately felt their luck changing as their single Pictures of Matchstick Men (1968), written by Rossi, reached No 7 in the UK and the Top 40 in the US.
(18) He built a children's playground with £30,000 but within two days it was kicked to matchsticks.
(19) At night, they slept crowded together “like matchsticks”, Mohammed said.
(20) They became friends, but Parfitt didn't join the band until they recorded Pictures Of Matchstick Men.