lunch-box
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of lunchbox.
Example Sentences
- "Alok Chaudhry is one of the 2300 members of the Union of Tiffinbox Suppliers who form a network of relay teams that collect 100 000 lunch-boxes in mid-morning from Bombay’s suburbs and delivers them to offices in the city centre by lunchtime. […] Rajnish, second in the chain, collects his lunch-boxes from them at the first meeting point at 10.20."
- "Ishii also shared chikuwa (fish sausage) and boiled egg from his bentō lunch-box with the monkeys (he told me that the monkeys even eat tsukemono pickles and umeboshi [pickled plums])."
- "Her lunch-box had been packed with roast chicken drumsticks and sliced mango."
- "But today, I found one of the other children crying at lunchtime, because her lunch-box had been raided and nearly everything was missing."