Sentence examples for boxes of rocks from inspiring English sources

There were rock hounds in bluejeans and hiking boots, cardboard boxes of rocks they'd brought in for identification at their feet; geologists with loose-leaf folders; teen-age couples on dates; Rutgers personnel; and many parents carrying young children or holding their hands.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet There were rock hounds in bluejeans and hiking boots, cardboard boxes of rocks they'd brought in for identification at their feet; geologists with loose-leaf folders; teen-age couples on dates; Rutgers personnel; and many parents carrying young children or holding their hands.

Dumb as boxes of rocks, those two.

Mikey Day's Donald Trump Jr. and Alex Moffat's dumber-than-a-box-of rocks Eric Trump want to get their hands on damaging Hillary Clinton emails.

It was returned, but the replacement camera was as dead as a box of rocks.

He began collecting specimens 40 years ago at the age of 8 when a neighbor gave him a box of rocks.

The handsomest one, of course, was Courteous Carl & Billie fell for him like a box of rocks.

He juxtaposes his landscape oil painting with actual gas pumps, collages of survey maps, shreds of black-and-white photographs of roadside tumbleweed, gas receipts and a file box of rocks.

Room 256 has high ceilings, high windows and an unbelievable amount of clutter, including half a dozen models of the solar system, quaintly obsolete electrical devices, the odd box of rocks, bottles of chemicals with yellowing labels, one computer for a dozen teachers and a ceiling fan that, upon closer inspection, is a floor fan lashed to the ceiling.

Among the starters, on a recent evening, there was a "box of rocks" (a tin bucket of steamed cockles, accompanied by baby greens and a bowl of broth) and a "tenement soup" (a chunky pork-broth stew of ham, beans, and cabbage).

"That's so common that it's almost not collectible — pretty close to 'not the sharpest tool in the shed.' This morning I remembered 'dumb as a box of rocks.' Then, when I was talking with some colleagues at the office — we were discussing our bozo of a boss — someone said, 'His driveway doesn't go all the way to the street.' That's one of my favorites".