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• The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.From the entry life
• We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.From the entry outer
• I enjoy fudge ripple ice cream, but I especially like to dig through the carton to get at the ripple part and eat only that.From the entry ripple
• Moments later Akiko was in the kitchen, opening the refrigerator and pulling out a carton of nattō.2012, Rachel Herz, “Let’s Eat”, in That’s Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton &…. From the entry nattō
• From behind a cardboard grocery carton of toilet paper I took a bottle of Wild Turkey.1999, Anne Rivers Siddons, Low Country, page 142. From the entry wild turkey
• The majority of frozen retail seafood is now sold in wrapperless cartons with a tear strip opener.1970, Food manufacture: Volume 45. From the entry wrapperless
• In this case there are 60 cartons cut at one time.1970, Conference on Electrical Methods of Machining, Forming and Coating, page 4. From the entry knife up
• He was delighted to go downstairs to buy her a carton of coffee and an eggsalad sandwich.1951, John Dos Passos, Chosen Country, page 301. From the entry eggsalad
• THEN by adopting automatic cartoning machine, productivity per girl-hour was increased by one-third.1950, Food Engineering, volume 22, Chilton Company, page 56. From the entry girl-hour
• When the overwrapper starts again, instead of cartons being transferred to a shelf they flow through to the overwrapper once more.2012, Jeffrey H. Hooper, Confectionery Packaging Equipment, page 166. From the entry overwrapper
• And the raffle prizes are always big red meat trays, (not a vegetarian amongst them), or cartons of tinnies.2002, Cheryl Kernot, Speaking for Myself Again Four Years of Labour and Beyond, unnumbered page. From the entry meat tray
• It’s not even the apple cores, empty yogurt cartons and banana peels or the peanut buttery bread crusts.1975 January 3, Gaye LeBaron, “Gaye LeBaron”, in The Press Democrat, 118th year, number 61, Santa Rosa, Calif., page 3, column 1. From the entry peanut buttery
• He overtrips the balances, takes his sodas from months-old cardboard cartons, and uses local tap water already highly alkaline.1946, American Photography - Volume 40, page 38. From the entry overtrip
• It could simply be a chocolate biscuit tucked into your leather satchel to be enjoyed at morning break along with the carton of free milk.2020, Jeff Zycinski, Travels from my Twilight Zone, →ISBN. From the entry playpiece
• And so on Friday nights, James Torin tornadoed through six beers, a carton of cigarettes, a coffee table littered with lottery tickets, and unrequited dreams.2012, Robin Nicole, For the Sake of Appearances. From the entry tornado
• They’d ask about their cigarette brand of choice, most of the time, after just having provided the good doctors with free cartons of Camels.2012, Rupal Parekh (13 August 2012), Rewind: 1949 cigarette spot declares ‘Doctors smoke Camels’, Advertising Age (retrieved 2017-10-24…. From the entry the good doctors
• He pays for it, eats it, and leaves the cartons in his living room, every inch of which is piled with books.2003 05, Suzanne Finnamore, The Zygote Chronicles, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry rangoon
• Inside was a clutter of prescription pads and a carton containing a collection of diamorphine syrettes and a dozen ampoules of pethidine.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 125. From the entry pethidine
• The bottom half, or the bun heel is placed in the carton, and the pickle slices spread evenly over the meat or cheese.1996, Ester Reiter, Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan Into the Fryer, page 100. From the entry heel
• I took Paulette’s bouquet from the carton—a loose-stemmed spray of delphinia, coquette roses, white lilacs and Queen Anne’s lace—and placed it in her arms.1992, Elinor Lipman, The Way Men Act, Pocket Books, page 196. From the entry delphinia
• Sigrid took a bittersweet trip down memory lane when Anne opened the carton of ornaments and lifted out a crumpled tinsel star.1989, Margaret Maron, Corpus Christmas (A Crime Club Book), Warner Books edition, New York, N.Y.: Mysterious Press, published 2001, →ISBN…. From the entry memory lane
• Suitable toys include wooden bricks, balls, trucks, hammer and pegs, an undressable doll, large cartons for the child to climb in and out of.1980, Barbara F Weller, Helping sick children play. From the entry undressable
• The large subfamily Nasutitermitinae includes many species which have soldiers with a pear-shaped, nasutiform head and several species build nests of carton.1970, Kumar Krishna, Frances M. Weesner, editors, Biology of Termites, volume II, New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, page 374. From the entry nasutiform
• Alice had UPSed it to the Black Hills in one of the cartons containing a select group of artifacts from their past that arrived a week after her move.2006, David Rhody, Dakota White, page 243. From the entry ups
• Chocolate milk is not the byproduct of brown cows; it is not gathered and siphoned into cartons after chocolate rainstorms; it's just normal cow juice with some cocoa mixed in.2017 June 15, River Donaghey, “A Lot of American Adults Think Brown Cows Make Chocolate Milk”, in Vice, archived from the original on 12…. From the entry cow juice
• You don't have any particular loaf of bread, carton(s) of milk or dozen apples in mind, so the nouns "bread", "milk" and "apples" do not refer to any particular items.1989, Donald G Frantz, Blackfoot Grammar. From the entry non-referring

Meaning of carton

1. noun An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.
2. noun A pack of cigarettes, usually ten, wrapped in cellophane or packed in a light cardboard box.
3. noun A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.

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How do you use carton in a sentence?

Carton is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.”

What is a short sentence with carton?

“a carton of milk or eggs”

What does carton mean?

Carton means an inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.