CARTON


Meaning of CARTON in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

carton of...juice

a carton of orange juice

milk carton (= a plastic or cardboard container in which milk is sold )

containers such as milk cartons and soap powder boxes

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

milk

I get the milk carton from the window and pour it over my cornflakes.

By May 1, twenty little tomato plants in sawed-off milk cartons had taken over the kitchen dinette.

In the scullery I found a note propped against a milk carton on the draining-board.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Amid all the dust and the commerce we come upon a guy stationed at a cardboard carton desk.

As he straightened up he seemed to have left his heart on the floor with the empty ice-cream carton .

Could you pick up a carton of Trues?

He feels sadness in objects, in warehouse cartons and blood-soaked clothes.

I get the milk carton from the window and pour it over my cornflakes.

Seen the Camel ad witha guy racing to his shelter as a meteorite approaches, grasping nothing but his cigarette carton ?

The petrol stove was roaring under a steaming kettle, sheltered by three sides of an unfolded carton .

There's a lump of ice floating in the carton .

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