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How do you use Cardboard in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like artificial or unreal, plus the exact meaning.

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Cardboard in a sentence

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Cardboard meaning

  1. A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.
  2. Something flat or insubstantial.

Synonyms of Cardboard

unlifelike artificial unreal composition board paper packing material packing wadding

Using Cardboard

  • The main meaning on this page is: A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs. | Something flat or insubstantial.
  • Useful related words include: unlifelike, artificial, unreal, composition board.
  • In the example corpus, cardboard often appears in combinations such as: cardboard box, cardboard boxes, the cardboard.

Context around Cardboard

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Cardboard

  • In this selection, "cardboard" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, clean, means, soluble, boxes, box and cake stand out and add context to how "cardboard" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and a cardboard box which and and inserting cardboard tabs into. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "cardboard" sits close to words such as devised, irrelevant and maya, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with cardboard

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

A voice like cardboard. (4 words)

Everyone else is flat, stock cardboard. (6 words)

Clean cardboard means cardboard that has no peanuts, straw or styrofoam in or connected to it. (16 words)

An employee of a U.S. Army lodging facility in Seoul pleaded not guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Honolulu to charges of conspiring with a co-worker to divert the proceeds from cardboard and cooking oil recycling to their personal bank accounts. (45 words)

Dressed in jeans, trainers, a hooded sweatshirt and beanie hat, William went unrecognised as he laid a piece of cardboard down on the floor and climbed into his sleeping bag and the pair stayed out in temperatures as low as minus 4 degrees. (43 words)

Cardboard coffins and a sign that reads “28 assassinations by the represion, resign Dina the murderess” are seen next to members of the police during a demonstration against the government of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte in Lima on January 4, 2023. (41 words)

Example sentences (20)

Earlier this year, Lyden oversaw the Cardboard Cake, a cunning one-off collaboration with advertising agency The Hallway that upended every jibe about gluten-free food tasting like cardboard.

The company makes molded pulp trays from clean cardboard clippings left before cardboard is made into a box and glue and other adhesives are added – keeping those out of the recycling stream, said owner Jim Bango.

Clean cardboard means cardboard that has no peanuts, straw or styrofoam in or connected to it.

Don’t worry, it’s not a Switch made out of water-soluble cardboard or even a cardboard “skin” over the Switch.

I raced through the steps as fast as I could, folding and inserting cardboard tabs into other pieces of cardboard while the person I’d been partnered with decorated what I’d built.

This made the Trabant the first car with a body made of recycled material and was partially responsible for the misconception that it was made of cardboard (it was dubbed Zwickauer Rennpappe, i.e. "Zwickau racing cardboard").

A few activists briefly shouted “no to the pension plan” after he had just inaugurated the event early Saturday, brandishing cardboard posters written “64 years, it’s dead” and “metro, work, tomb”.

An employee of a U.S. Army lodging facility in Seoul pleaded not guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Honolulu to charges of conspiring with a co-worker to divert the proceeds from cardboard and cooking oil recycling to their personal bank accounts.

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As a zero-waste company, the business strives to use recycled materials in their packaging and has recently introduced takeaway boxes manufactured in the UK from recycled cardboard, which can be recycled again and again”.

At least the box is cardboard covered in plastic coating rather than fully plastic like an oversized frozen meal container.

A voice like cardboard.

Back in the good old days, used to be simple, cardboard boxes that had cheap, festive chocolate hidden inside.

Brown material is the woodier material that will take longer to break down, such as hedge trimmings, woody stems or cardboard.

But it wasn’t until seven years ago when he was given a cardboard box that had seen better days, that his interest flared into obsession.

Cardboard coffins and a sign that reads “28 assassinations by the represion, resign Dina the murderess” are seen next to members of the police during a demonstration against the government of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte in Lima on January 4, 2023.

Department of Health says progress is being made regarding the investigation into why babies were placed in cardboard boxes instead of incubators.

Dressed in jeans, trainers, a hooded sweatshirt and beanie hat, William went unrecognised as he laid a piece of cardboard down on the floor and climbed into his sleeping bag and the pair stayed out in temperatures as low as minus 4 degrees.

Everyone else is flat, stock cardboard.

He said the payload’s case was designed in the style of a spacecraft, with cardboard “solar panels”.

He showed his card, then was given a shopping cart and a cardboard box, which he loaded up with fruits and vegetables: parsley, celery, green onions, limes, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, bananas.

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Common combinations with cardboard

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "cardboard" in a sentence?
An example: "Earlier this year, Lyden oversaw the Cardboard Cake, a cunning one-off collaboration with advertising agency The Hallway that upended every jibe about gluten-free food tasting like cardboard." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "cardboard" from authentic English texts.
What does "cardboard" mean?
Cardboard means: A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.
What are synonyms of "cardboard"?
Common synonyms of "cardboard" include: unlifelike, artificial, unreal, composition board, paper, packing material, packing, wadding.
How many example sentences with "cardboard" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "cardboard", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.