pillbox

Example Sentences

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

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

What you see from the road are the two gatehouses, each a small empty pillbox of a building faced with flagstones and topped, like tiny pagodas, with shingled curving roofs.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston