The term "offering box" is a correct and usable part of the English language.
It is typically used in contexts related to the act of donating money to a charity or religious organization. For example: "The church had an offering box at the front of the sanctuary for donations."
They are periodically surprised by gold coins, gold bars and jewels in the offering box.
It is customary to leave a donation in the church offering box.
You cannot drop a dollar in the offering box without wondering if the money might go to settle lawsuits brought by victims, as in Boston.
One small 19th-century ivory sculpture of a crouching winged lion, from a temple offering box, is a nugget of pure, coiled energy, pulling and holding the eye like a magnet.
The least sound rose into vaulted ceilings, gathered force and carried to the most distant pew: a squeak of rubber soles, the clink of a coin dropped in an offering box.
So long as government agents are not compelling you to bow before it, pray to it, or put money in an offering box beside it, the Establishment Clause is not offended".Such an interpretation conflates the principle of non-establishment with that of religious free exercise protected in the next few words of the first amendment.
One teacher implored them to take home food, offering boxes of whole-wheat spaghetti and jars of tomato sauce to anyone who would take them.
The restaurant, for instance, features a polished concrete floor, Chinese-style lanterns hung in multicoloured clusters, a pair of sculptural Burmese offering boxes and a handful of specially commissioned Thai paintings.
It's also become a week-long shopping event with stores offering "Boxing Week Sales" to entice shoppers.
Head slightly out of town to Absolute Bali (+62 361 804 9403) shimmering with the artist-owner's stylish interpretation of traditional Balinese hand-pounded aluminum offering boxes.
With a paucity of strong new commercial offerings, box-office overall fell 24% from the previous frame.
