pillbox

Example Sentences

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Apparently nostalgic for the Champagne, pillbox hats and soft-lit glamour that supposedly characterized the skies in the 1950s and ’60s, U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

He advised people not to attempt to go inside the pillbox "for safety reasons, especially not when the tide's coming in".

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

Unthinkable as it seems, Edna was dowdy then, given to mousy brown hair and pillbox hats.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 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

She always dressed impeccably for her duties as hostess, in a pillbox hat, tweed suit, and beige gloves: taking coffee from her sure hand he’d found pleasurable.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson