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# shoebox

«shoebox» in Mova's school dictionary: **the cardboard box that new shoes come in** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a shoebox, shoeboxes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shoebox is the cardboard box that new shoes come in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoebox/#m1)

2) A shoebox is also used to store small things, or to make crafts and school projects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoebox/#m2)

3) Informally, a «shoebox» can mean a very small room or flat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoebox/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

At school, children make shoebox dioramas (small scenes inside a box) for science or reading projects; at home a shoebox stores photos, toys or cards. Also used for collecting gifts, like a shoebox gift appeal.

### examples

- My new trainers came in a big shoebox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoebox/#x1)
- We made a shoebox diorama of a rainforest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoebox/#x2)
- Grandma keeps old photos in a shoebox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoebox/#x3)
- The kitten fell asleep in a shoebox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoebox/#x4)
- I cut a hole in the shoebox to make a puppet theatre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoebox/#x5)
- Put your marbles back in the shoebox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoebox/#x6)
- Their flat is tiny, like a shoebox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoebox/#x7)

### note

Countable noun, usually one word: «a shoebox, shoeboxes» (plural adds -es after x). Can also be written «shoe box». In maths, a shoebox is a cuboid (a rectangular box), good for practising volume = length × width × height.

### In the corpora

- [Mila keeps every letter in a shoebox with a ribbon round it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shoebox» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoebox/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.