Sentence examples for a container for the from inspiring English sources

In a furniture shop he was told that a chair was "a container for the body".

In a YouTube world, one's home is no longer one's private retreat: it's just a container for the webcam.

It's not a question of creating a container for the content and after the fact having to fill that container.

Revived by Danspace Project in 1999 and again this Sunday, the installation is a container for the virtuosic and the quotidian alike.

Serving a less dramatic function, the Man of Sorrows becomes the thumb-sized lid handle of a beautiful pyx, a container for the consecrated host.

It's significant that the building was put up in the land of Microsoft (and with some of the company's money), since it is such a powerful testament to architecture as a container for the delivery of information.

"The snuffbox, essentially a masculine object, was a container for tobacco that the user would take to his nose in order to sneeze," Mr. Kugel said.

A light and healthy salad, ideally served with pan-fried or barbecued mackerel or stuffed into a container for lunch on the go.

Like the pleurant an Anglo-Saxon chrismatory (a container for items used in the sacraments) from the eighth or ninth century is a wonder of survival and craftsmanship.

As a prototype, chemotherapeutic drug Doxorubicin (Dox) was loaded and enclosed in hydrogel that acts as a container for sustained release of the drug.

Alcott and his contemporaries regarded the book as a container for consciousness, a way to access the innermost part of another human being, otherwise unreachable.