Sentence examples for shining box from inspiring English sources

For days, Sarajevans prayed, laid flowers and lit candles around an old pair of shoes and Uncle Misho's shining box, placed in front of his empty wooden chair.

The bootblack is charged a modest fee for the route and the shoe shine box.

He has installed a little gong on the shoe shine box.

So 'The Shine Box' was born; a pop-up shop I opened in Bank Station in October 2014, offering expert services to repair shoes and handbags.

Best known for telling Joe Pesci to go home and get his shine box in "Goodfellas," Mr. Vincent took on the more cerebral task of writing a book, "A Guy's Guide to Being a Man's Man" (Berkley Publishing Group), released last week.

There's a fair bit of broad Italian-American being spoken, and some Goodfellas posturing from young guys who look as if they would go home and get their shine box as obediently as lambs.

On a practical note Kevin had also concluded that Times Square would be a perfect location to set up a shoe-shine box, like one he had used to earn food money in his village.

Husein Hasani — better known as "Uncle Misho" — died one year ago Tuesday at age 83, bequeathing his shoe-shining box to his son.

We were alarmed, and he flipped over his shine box to reveal his pricing structure.

One year ago, as I was carrying my shoe-shining box, some men asked me to shine their shoes.

After his father died, he did a lot of odd jobs, including shining shoes, boxing professionally at 16, having lied about his age, and preaching for the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson in the Mexican neighbourhoods of Los Angeles.