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synonyms for the box

  • TV
  • TV set
  • idiot box
  • small screen
  • television
  • telly
  • the tube
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to the box, such as: idiot box, small screen, television, telly, the tube, and tv.
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How to use the box in a sentence

A little drawer shoots out almost in my face, startling me like a jack-in-the-box.
BELFORD'S MAGAZINE, VOL. II, NO. 3, FEBRUARY 1889VARIOUS
Sergeant Jimmy Bagby kept bobbing up and down like a pudgy jack-in-the-box that is slightly stiff in its joints.
THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMMIRVIN S. COBB
Jack-in-the-box was the minister, because the little mistress thought he stood better than anyone else.
SANDMAN'S GOODNIGHT STORIESABBIE PHILLIPS WALKER
Out of the jungle of machinery way back a head popped up like a Jack-in-the-box.
THE BRAINALEXANDER BLADE
Inside I compressed one of those jack-in-the-box snakes that spring out when free to do so.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 156, MAY 21, 1919.VARIOUS
The man of the mechanists would be as funny as a jack-in-the-box.
MAJOR PROPHETS OF TO-DAYEDWIN E. SLOSSON
He became familiar with it at last; he called it his Jack-in-the-box.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMES
In one was hidden a tiny dwarf, who popped out like a jack-in-the-box when the Queen pulled a golden cord.
KISINGTON TOWNABBIE FARWELL BROWN
She had come up behind him, and he leaped out of his chair with a snap like a jack-in-the-box.
THE SKIPPER AND THE SKIPPEDHOLMAN DAY
His six feet of stature shot to its feet with a Jack-in-the-box abruptness, under the impulse of a mighty and reckless passion.
THE LAST SHOTFREDERICK PALMER
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO THE BOX

  • TV
  • TV set
  • idiot box
  • small screen
  • television
  • telly
  • the box
  • the tube
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.