cardboard

[ˈkɑrdbɔrd]

Definition:
1. A stiff moderately thick paper.
2. Resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness.
3. Without substance.

Use 'cardboard' in a sentence:

1. The NFL charged fans$ 100 for each cardboard cutout at the game. That's a cool$ 3 million in revenue to make up for some of the lost ticket and concession sales.
2. On a hot day many years ago my the-middle school daughter Emily, one of the most optimistic people I know, was paddling with me in a cardboard boat race.
3. She would have to wait in the truck, fanning herself with a piece of cardboard.
4. In 2014, When Kaitlin was thirteen, she visited Central America, and saw people going hungry and families living in houses made of cardboard ．
5. Get a glass full of water and a piece of cardboard.
6. Things made of these materials include soda cans, plastic milk boxes, newspapers, computers and cardboard boxes.
7. It was common along major interstate highways to see individuals (mostly male) standing by the side of the entrance ramp with a cardboard.
8. The term 'cardboard city' was coined to describe communities of homeless people living in cardboard boxes.
9. As the President spoke, someone fanned him with a square piece of cardboard.
10. Component Corrugated Cardboard Packaging Structure Design and Drop Simulation.
11. The Application of Close Value to Integrated Evaluation of the Quality Paper and Cardboard.
12. The cardboard was sodden and fell apart in his hands.
13. They have built their homes out of plastic sheeting and cardboard, unsure if the water they drink from an open pipe is safe.
14. Once you are done demonstrating whatever concept was in the textbook, you throw away the pipe cleaners, the straws, the cardboard tubes.
15. To make up the difference, the NFL produced 30000 cardboard cutouts of fans to fill most of the remaining seats.
16. Even Optimus Prime, the hero of the series, remains very much a cardboard character.
17. The cardboard box was crushed.
18. We would use cardboard box for this batch of toys.
19. She brought the shopping home in a cardboard box.
20. Researches on the New Type of Press Roll for Corrugated Cardboard.
21. I came home laden with cardboard boxes.
22. Someone brought a moppet and put it on the haulm in the cardboard manger.
23. There is a sheet of stiff cardboard in the drawer.
24. French strawberries do not taste like cardboard.
25. I tried making toy cars with cardboard boxes and constructing buildings from leftover cardboard and bits of wood my father gave me.
26. L: Cardboard cartons, with stenciled shipping marks.
27. There were cardboard boxes stuffed full of clothes.
28. Once you are done demonstrating whatever concept was in the textbook, you throw away the pipe cleaners, the cardboard tubes.
29. I got all the flowers and all the grasses ready and printed the names on pieces of cardboard, to stick in with them.
30. The cardboard disintegrates organically.
31. He got a large piece of cardboard, painted a sign begging for the bicycle to be returned, and tied the sign to the letterbox.
32. Unlike other sporting events where the cardboard cutouts are all bunch together in some areas of the stadium that receive the most TV coverage, the fake Super Bowl fans are spread out to keep the real fans socially distant.
33. However I looked carefully and could easily see the white cardboard.
34. Oriented to the prevailing wind, the front wall of perforated cardboard, moistened and cooled by a trickle of seawater pumped in, cools and moistens hot air blowing in.
35. You can see the cardboard cutouts filling the stadium on the NFL Network before the game.
36. The rest of the space was taken up by cardboard boxes piled right to the ceiling, ten deep.
37. It tasted indescribably bland and insipid, like warmed cardboard.
38. They made beds out of cardboard on the chilly shopfloor and dug in.
39. The Research on the Cushion Performance of Corrugated Cardboard as Package Structure.
40. The Optimize Model for Stock Manage of the Cardboard Box Corporation.
41. Give the cardboard two or three coats of varnish to harden it.
42. This heated air, drawn down from the roof, then mixes with the greenhouse air as it reaches a second sea-water-moistened cardboard wall at the back of the greenhouse.
43. The gift arrived in a cardboard box.
44. Once, after cleaning my house, I placed some cardboard boxes in his garden and left my rubbish beside my door.
45. Generals in full uniform leading regiments of cardboard soldiers passed by.
46. It tasted bland and insipid, like warmed cardboard.
47. The researchers think that they can attach the sensors to cardboard boxes, and then supermarkets can scan the sensors with a portable device to see how ripe the fruit inside is.
48. We plan to use cardboard or plastic cartons for outer packing.
49. Glue the two pieces of cardboard together.
50. You'd swear he was a cardboard cut-out except that he'd moved his rifle.
51. He reached into the cardboard box beside him.
52. I made a full-size cardboard model.
53. Patterson pointed toward a plain cardboard box beneath a long wooden table.