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the box

noun as in boob tube

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Example Sentences

Totally out-of-the-box hires like Joan Cusack, Randy Quaid, Robert Downey Jr., Jon Lovitz.

The jack-in-the-box has popped, just as we expected it to, but it still made us gasp.

This move would be a bold, desperate, out-of-the-box reaction to an increasingly incendiary situation.

How will this out-of-the-box choice fare on a scale of James Franco to Billy Crystal?

Petraeus is a master at charming reporters and would be an out-of-the-box choice.

A little drawer shoots out almost in my face, startling me like a jack-in-the-box.

Sergeant Jimmy Bagby kept bobbing up and down like a pudgy jack-in-the-box that is slightly stiff in its joints.

Jack-in-the-box was the minister, because the little mistress thought he stood better than anyone else.

Out of the jungle of machinery way back a head popped up like a Jack-in-the-box.

Inside I compressed one of those jack-in-the-box snakes that spring out when free to do so.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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