pillbox

Example Sentences

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The women would often wear these extravagant, floral hats or don a more subtle pillbox style.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

Winter storms have unearthed a World War Two pillbox on a sandy beach and revealed its interior.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

He remembered that Laine wanted him to take his anti-anxiety medications when he could feel himself getting upset, so he unpacked all his belongings to search for his pillbox, found nothing, and repacked everything again.

From New York Times • May 13, 2023

Bob Dylan once mockingly sang that a leopard-skin pillbox hat “balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2022

For the last entire year I have worn my little white gloves and pillbox hat to the First Episcopal Church in Johannesburg and recited it right along with the best of them.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver