Example sentences for: cardboard

How can you use “cardboard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A cardboard divider, no different from what's normally used to ship grapefruit, keeps the skulls from banging together like marbles.

  • It's said that one director was driven nearly to homicide after being forced to spend six hours lighting each shot (and, allegedly, to employ a technician whose sole job it was to hold a cardboard triangle next to a light so that the star's jowls would be covered by a shadow).

  • Which of the following are from recent New York Times articles and which are a clever ruse, like those cardboard tanks the English built in World War II to trick Germans looking for plywood tanks?

  • Save for the gewürztraminer, which I thought smelled of wet cardboard and my wife had called clovelike, we failed the test-misidentifying four of the five wines.

  • Despite the usual carps about his "tortured" prose (Dana Kennedy, Entertainment Weekly ) and cardboard cutout characters, most critics admit the novel is "a ripping read" ( Publishers Weekly ). (Read an excerpt of Rainbow Six .)


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