In Australia when the war shut off the supply of tin the Government commission appointed to devise means of preserving fruits recommended the use of cardboard containers varnished with "magramite.
Magramite dissolved in alcohol is painted on the cardboard cans and when these are stoved the coating becomes insoluble.
I thought of making blotter-pads by covering the bottom of a cardboard box with wall paper, after its rims were cut off.
A strip of cardboard covered with the same sort of wall paper could be glued at the back and left loose lower down to rest the card upright.
There’s a little clock made of cardboard on Father’s desk,” finally Jimsi announced.
But, somehow, when the bed was placed on its legs it sank under the weight of the paper dolls, so Jimsi made another bed out of cardboard and pasted the wall paper bed over it.
One did not see the hand that moved it or the strip of cardboard by which it was held.
One cut the front legs to fit below the table and cut off the bit of cardboard there as the table end was cut.
The chairs were a bit different: to make a chair one had to cut a piece of cardboard the least little bit smaller than a table—and not half so wide.
She colored the arms on the cardboard flesh-tint and the stockings and slippers black.
So she placed the paper doll on the sheet of cardboard and traced around her to get the outline.
I thought of using fancy paper pasted over a square of cardboard at the back.
A sofa could be made on lines like the chair, only making the cutting of the cardboard oblong wide and giving it the depth of the chair also.
She reached for the little cardboard box and extricated the tiny envelope.
Then she cut out the cardboard outline that had the paper head and there, if you please, was a real paper doll, as splendid as any you ever saw anywhere!
The wall was made of cardboard sewn tightly on to a light wooden frame, the whole being made in three sections, which, when fitted together, reached the height of about eight feet six inches.
I tried melting old whitewash (scraped off the walls) with gum and hot water, but it either fell off when dry or showed the wet cardboardplainly through.
A parachute is attached to the cardboard container in which the illuminating mixture is packed and the whole is stowed away in the steel shell.
The star-shell has a large parachute of strong material folded in the rear of the casing and the cardboard tube containing the illuminating mixture is attached to it.
Cover the shaft with paper and put cardboard liners between the box to allow for adjustment as it wears.
To let the babbitt run from the upper half to the lower, cut four or six V-shaped notches, a quarter of an inch deep, in the edges of the sheet-iron or cardboard that come against the shaft.
A split box is babbitted in the same manner except that strips of cardboard or sheet-iron are placed between the two halves of the box and against the shaft to divide the babbitt.
Fully illustrated with designs for Paper or Cardboard Modelling and Free Paper Cutting.
On one side was a queer, dark, cardboard factory, on the other a Commercial Hotel.
There were a pack of brown cardboard squares, a pack of cards of lace, a little box of pins, and on the sofa lay a heap of drawn lace.
The ship will consist of a little Japanese tray, or lid of a cardboard box, with a piece of string fixed at either end to draw it by.
The wall behind the ornate Empire bed was covered with photographs, some in frames, others left, as they had been received, upon the large squares of weird cardboard which are termed "art mounts.
He bent forward suddenly over the bed and spelled out the name of the photographer which was pencilled upon the brown cardboard mount.
The divided portions of the cardboard are bent back a little, thus forming two “hooks,” so to speak, at the sides of the head.
The exhibitor, as well as the cardboard figures, is placed behind the spectators, a position which has many advantages.
Glue round the inside of the rim of a circular dish of white porcelain, a number of little cardboard figures of animals; or simply sketch thereon, with ink, similar figures or numerals, equidistant from one another.
There was also a packet marked "Hair," and a small cardboard box.
He had caught sight of a square of cardboard at the farther end of the street.
If I don't make some effort to be true to conviction, I shall turn to cardboardwith the rest.
This collapse was more obvious because it was not dignified by the charm of age; and Agnes House in its premature dissolution was not much more admirable than a cardboardbox which has been left out in the rain.
You may be sure it was that, miss,' said Barnes, as she bustled about, shutting and opening a variety of cardboard boxes.
I think I shall just send them to him in a cardboard box.
Polly," and the old gentleman forthwith postured with his thin legs like a cardboard antic at the end of a string.
In pursuit of this mystery, the lawyer had caused to be printed many little strips of cardboard in the language of the blind.
It was a bright day in the life of Uncle John Owens, then, when Ollie's lawyer called at the poorhouse and placed under his hands some slender slips of cardboard bearing raised letters, the A B C of his age.
I put him in a cardboard box, addressed it myself, posted it myself, and wrote to the manager myself.
I took the gun behind the embrasure and tried to prevent the ships from reaching my cardboard fastness by knocking them over en route.
It was strewn with garments and hats and cardboard boxes; Susan's suitcase, with the things in it that she would need for a fortnight in the woods, was open on the table.
He's sitting down at a table outside a café where Chancery Lane meets Fleet Street, sipping a cardboard cup of coffee.
His cardboard cup drops to the floor, and I unscrew the rifle from the tripod, duck below the top of the brick wall of the bookstore, fold up the tripod and put everything in my holdall, hidden beneath a pair of jogging bottoms.
Napier half-turned his back on them, but he stood so that he could keep an eye on the stricken face above the long cardboard box which Nan was carrying as if it were an infant.
She made a diversion of opening the long cardboard box and taking out six glorious roses tied with leaf-green and rose-colored ribbon.
Out of a shallow cardboard box, full of numbered films, Singleton had briskly helped himself to one after another.
Napier had made his way among cardboard boxes and clothes-encumbered chairs, to the sofa where Miss Greta half sat, half lay, in a becoming mauve tea-gown.
It had been a black morning, and the bit of cardboardwas torn and soiled and bent.
Rhoda took the square of neat cardboard with the precious red circle that meant so much, and ran into the playground with it, hugging it to her heart, and crying and laughing over it like a child.
Remembering the pencil bombs, she groped in the cardboard box for them.
Maxwell had placed on the table a small cardboard box, in which were two amethyst crystal balls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cardboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: leaf; page; paper; ream; sheet; stationery; stilted; wooden
