pillbox

Example Sentences

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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

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

I rifle through the bag that usually goes into my bag — i.e., the makeup pouch I typically throw in a tote — and fish out the essentials: my pillbox, my Chapstick, my house keys.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2022

He scurried from one pillbox to another, miraculously untouched by the intense Japanese machine-gun fire that bounced off his equipment — sounding, as he told it, like a jackhammer.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2022

Their new slogan was summed up in General Kuribayashi’s “Courageous Battle Vow” that was pasted on the walls of every pillbox.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac