Words similar to receptacles

Example sentences for: receptacles

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

Rather than distinguish these varieties of consumer experience, Frank stuffs everything into the boxes of "square" and "hip"--receptacles that were already full back when the '60s dawned.
A kiss can pour love from lips to lips, two receptacles filling each other.
Box" is used to describe the receptacles each family or business sets up on a rural route to which mail might be delivered.
The geezer's nurse (Philip Seymour Hoffman) listens to his semi-coherent monologues then decides to get in touch with the dying man's estranged son (Tom Cruise), who gives inspirational lectures in which men are exhorted to "turn women into sperm receptacles" and to leave behind their "unmanly" pasts.
I have few data to support me, and my stamina are not up to long, tedious research, but I have a hunch that media —the main agendum on many a pedant's plate these days—is well on its way to becoming a standard singular noun, except perhaps among hidebound literati and intransigent intelligentsia on various university campi, in style books, and in other blessed receptacles of holy semantic writ.