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You can use the word "carton" to describe a box or container, usually made of paperboard or thin cardboard, used for holding and carrying goods. For example: "I bought some cereal from the store and it came in a carton."
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carton
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An inexpensive, disposable box-like creation fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material. It is designed to hold things for a short period of time and be discarded or recycled after use.
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The popular, if silly, example is the smart fridge: what if your fridge could tell you it was out of milk, texting you if its internal cameras saw there was none left, or that the carton was past its use-by date?
Perhaps he planned to do it during an afternoon walk down the Manly Corso but that risked Manly chucking a fit (and perhaps the carton of hot chips they'd be holding) and making Cherry-Evans the focus of public opprobrium.
The cost of a carton of large eggs in the midwest has jumped nearly 17% to $1.39 a dozen from $1.19 since mid-April when the virus began appearing in Iowa's chicken flocks and farmers culled their flocks to contain any spread.
Someone else will pass you a tiny carton of sweeteners or some agave.
She walked onstage, smiled, then started throwing eggs from a carton at the judges.
"Put it in the carton!" Jean is mortified.
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Glad the press is caling him on this one.I look forward to next week, when John McCain will stand on an overturned plastic milk-carton in the parking lot of a St Paul Denny's restaurant, in front of drapes hastily borrowed from Frances O'Keeffe of nearby Rosedale, Minnesota, to three staffers, a volunteer, and a homeless man who accidentally wanders over from the street.
Or Clerkenwell's Chifafa which avoids foam cartons and features ingredients such as high-welfare English veal.
What the police discovered when they raided the three-bedroom flat in spring 2011, however, had more of a Young British Artists vibe: homemade shelves stacked with hundreds of juice cartons and tinned food with a 1980s sell-by date.
The meal is in foil cartons, now cold, but they drink vintage wine as Claudia sets about the final chapter of Inge's memoir.
It is also famous for its air of benign hippydom, presided over by the founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the "two real guys" whose faces beam at you from the lids of the company's cartons.
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