How to Use pillbox in a Sentence
pillbox
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Pink tweeds, pillbox hat, tiaras to spare: Claire’s gone full method.
— Vogue, 10 Oct. 2018 -
Beatrice was seen in a black coat and pillbox hat while Edoardo wore a black suit.
— Emily Tannenbaum, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023 -
Sure enough, the concrete pillbox emerged from the greenery soon after.
— Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2021 -
The pillbox-size case on the Pro is a bit bigger than the cases on earlier models.
— Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2019 -
Her finishing touches were a pillbox hat with a white tulle veil and white gloves.
— Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023 -
Kaia hit the runway in a bright orange skirt suit, pillbox hat, and matching pumps.
— Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2018 -
Princess Kate wore the same brown pillbox hat with bow for the maternity fashion moments and refreshed the look with a nude clutch and heels in 2018.
— Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023 -
Throughout the Expo, hostesses wore pale blue A-line skirts, blazers and pillbox hats.
— Jason Farago, New York Times, 22 June 2017 -
In 1956, a young woman in a white pillbox hat would not have talked about liminal boundaries.
— Jennifer Reese, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018 -
Someone else carried the pink pillbox hat that the first lady had torn off her head after her husband was shot.
— Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023 -
The clerk knitted her brows, but Xiaolei was sheepish and insistent, and at last the woman shrugged and gave her the pen and a piece of thin gray cardboard, the inside of a pillbox, to try it on.
— Te-Ping Chen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2020 -
After the engineers had cleared a path for the assault infantry to advance on the pillboxes, the first heavy equipment to come ashore was the bulldozers.
— Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2017 -
The Rosa Parks doll wears an elegant black pillbox hat and clutch, along with gloves, high-heeled booties, eyeglasses, and a grey 3/4 length coat over a floral printed dress.
— Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2019 -
Eugenie sported a light blue dress topped with a pillbox hat, while Brooksbank opted for dark suit with a light blue tie to match his fianceé.
— Temi Adebowale, Town & Country, 2 July 2018 -
But perhaps the pillbox wasn’t a bridge abutment, but rather an aboveground overflow tank for the sanitary district.
— Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2021 -
While Meghan, 37, accessorized the look with a cream coat and a matching pillbox hat, the British designer put her own spin on the dress, pairing it with sunglasses and some bright pink heels.
— Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 15 June 2019 -
The Duchess pulled off a full outfit change in between the two, swapping a bespoke Erdem look for a white coat and Victoria Beckham dress, topped with a stylish pillbox hat.
— Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2019 -
This premium pillbox, just 1.25 inches tall, totes teensy things in style.
— WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022 -
Some surprise guests also showed up at the premiere, including Kim Cattrall who sported a chic, retro-style black pillbox hat, and posed with Star on the red carpet.
— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022 -
Middleton created her version of this trend on St. Patrick's Day by pairing a seafoam green coat with a matching pillbox hat.
— Brittany Natale, Woman's Day, 25 Apr. 2023 -
Hiking a little further will bring you to the second pillbox, offering more stunning views of the bright blue Pacific Ocean.
— Fox News, 9 Apr. 2022 -
Another idea the group plans to incorporate: a smart pillbox that can reveal when someone is, or isn’t, taking their medicine.
— Shirley S. Wang, WSJ, 28 May 2018 -
For this fall, things took a darker turn: cylindrical clutches come in silver, oxblood and painted python, while a black pillbox is sweetened with gold polka-dots.
— Christine Lennon, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 July 2012 -
Among the throngs of well-heeled, young-to-early-middle-aged women dressed fashionably yet sensibly for the chilly weather are a handful wearing pink suits and pillbox hats in homage to Elle Woods.
— Zoë Ghertner, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2019 -
Continuing on the theme of bows, the Chanel bride—personified by actor Margaret Qualley—wore her hair slicked back under a black pillbox hat adorned with a white bow.
— Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 6 July 2021 -
There’s an oh-so-English affect to the staffers guiding visitors from the station to the entrance, kitted out in scarlet red capes and pillbox hats like flunkies on loan from Buckingham Palace.
— Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2018 -
The plan was to do something similar to the king: Military bodyguards were recruited to replace pills in his pillbox with female hormones.
— Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 10 June 2023 -
As the flag was being raised on Mount Suribachi, Williams was crawling through trenches with a 70-pound flamethrower taking out enemy pillboxes.
— Robert Steiner, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2018 -
The liquor store was especially sketchy — across the street from a social-services building, with all the itinerancy that that entails — and the cashier sat in the kind of plexiglass pillbox that wasn’t built to keep out the coronavirus.
— Daniel Foster, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022 -
Built like the proverbial German pillbox, the satisfaction of just closing its doors is sufficient reason to own the vehicle.
— Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2021
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