shoebox
noun
shoe·box
ˈshü-ˌbäks 
variants
or less commonly shoe box
1
: a box that shoes are sold in
a shoebox full of old photographs
2
: a small space and especially a small living space
The loft, almost an hour from her house by tube, is a shoebox with 18-foot ceilings, white and blue, with odds and ends of mismatched furniture …—
Michael Kimmelman
—often used before another nounMichael Kimmelmana shoebox apartment
Since commercial real estate was cheaper, art galleries and Off Off Off Broadway theaters could spring up in shoebox storefronts.—James Wolcott
James WolcottExamples of shoebox in a Sentence
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Gladstone had opened her gallery in 1980 in a shoebox space on 57th Street before moving to larger digs.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 20 June 2024
Kaleb names his new spider Rihanna, then gives her a temporary home in a shoebox that happens to have a hole in it.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
During the execution of the search warrant, Cuthbertson reportedly threw a shoebox containing bags of fentanyl out of a window.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2024
Police who responded to the home allegedly found empty bags of heroin on the floor of the room where the boy was found, according to prosecutors, and a shoebox containing hundreds of bags containing blue fentanyl and bags that were either empty or contained heroin residue.
—Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 5 June 2024
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Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 20 June 2024
Kaleb names his new spider Rihanna, then gives her a temporary home in a shoebox that happens to have a hole in it.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
During the execution of the search warrant, Cuthbertson reportedly threw a shoebox containing bags of fentanyl out of a window.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2024
Police who responded to the home allegedly found empty bags of heroin on the floor of the room where the boy was found, according to prosecutors, and a shoebox containing hundreds of bags containing blue fentanyl and bags that were either empty or contained heroin residue.
—Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 5 June 2024
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“Shoebox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoebox. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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