The phrase "paper container" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a container made out of paper, such as a box or bag. Example: I bought a salad from the deli, and it came in a paper container with a plastic lid.
On leaving the stage, contestants needing solace can grab a little cookie in a paper container on the judging table.
"O.K., I'm a pro-child, future-oriented Democrat," Mr. Green said, sipping soup from a paper container while sitting in his makeshift campaign office near Grand Central Terminal.
come in a paper container, and the burgers are pretty dry, but the cheesecake and the Reuben sandwich are still peerless.
He was sitting on a blue swivel chair in front of a bodega eating onion rings from a paper container when a stray bullet from an argument hit him in the head, the police said.
Each work is composed of a piece of Japanese ceramic ware that was repaired with gold lacquer, an X-ray of that object, a found photograph of a performing acrobat in a frame with shattered glazing, and a beautiful Japanese-style paper container for the ceramic piece.
Ms. Bloom has surrounded each of the restored ceramics with emblematic objects and pictures, including a lovely, intricately constructed and patterned traditional paper container for each (a symbol of protection); a photograph and an X-ray of each; and, on the wall under broken glass, a poster-size reproduction of an old photograph of an acrobat juggling crockery (the risk of being fully alive).
I stopped at a little shack where a man sold hot, red chili in paper containers.
In their paper "Containers Lost at Sea", they estimate an average of 675 containers are lost per year.
Plastic tops were removed, foil peeled off, paper containers unclasped, and the room filled with a happy clatter, the air with culturally diverse aromas: curry, ginger, garlic, basil.
In four to five hours, Mr. Burgess said, five different entrees with side dishes would be ready to be packed into pressed paper containers and stored in the Zabbias' freezer for them to eat when they want.
That Friday, the students pushed some of the desks against the wall to create an open space, and put their foil, plastic, and paper containers on the teacher's desk, in the center.
