box lunch
noun
: a lunch packed in a container (such as a box)
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Tickets include tournament play, contests, green/court fees, snacks and beverages, access to the resort facilities, commemorative gift, box lunch, cocktail party, hors d’oeuvres, open bar, and awards ceremony. 
Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022 Between tour stops, enjoy a furnished box lunch (choices available) at Simsbury’s Ellsworth Center. courant.com, 5 Apr. 2022 Other sources attribute the brownie to Bertha Potter Palmer, a wealthy socialite who asked the chef at the Palmer House Hotel to create a dessert that could be included in a box lunch for ladies attending the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1837. cleveland, 8 Dec. 2021 In Louisville, each $100 ticket also includes a BBQ box lunch for two prepared by the Women Culinary and Spirits Program mentees and one bottle of Maker's Mark CommUNITY Batch. Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 30 Nov. 2021 The tour, at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 12, includes a box lunch, and the bus leaves from the Pfister Hotel. Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2021 Everyone was given a box lunch before heading to their flights. Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 1 June 2021 The second, held July 11, features a bento box lunch during which the Restaurant of the Year award will be presented by Times staff. Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021 Price includes greens fees, range balls, box lunch (with a beer), a special golf cap and entry into an opportunity drawing. Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2021 See More
Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022 Between tour stops, enjoy a furnished box lunch (choices available) at Simsbury’s Ellsworth Center. courant.com, 5 Apr. 2022 Other sources attribute the brownie to Bertha Potter Palmer, a wealthy socialite who asked the chef at the Palmer House Hotel to create a dessert that could be included in a box lunch for ladies attending the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1837. cleveland, 8 Dec. 2021 In Louisville, each $100 ticket also includes a BBQ box lunch for two prepared by the Women Culinary and Spirits Program mentees and one bottle of Maker's Mark CommUNITY Batch. Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 30 Nov. 2021 The tour, at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 12, includes a box lunch, and the bus leaves from the Pfister Hotel. Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2021 Everyone was given a box lunch before heading to their flights. Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 1 June 2021 The second, held July 11, features a bento box lunch during which the Restaurant of the Year award will be presented by Times staff. Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021 Price includes greens fees, range balls, box lunch (with a beer), a special golf cap and entry into an opportunity drawing. Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1889, in the meaning defined above
- make the final/supreme/ultimate sacrifice
- make the first move
- make the grade
- make the introductions
- make the most of
- make the rounds
- make the scene
- make the shot
- make the supreme sacrifice
- make the ultimate sacrifice
- make time
- make time for
- make time for (someone)
- make time for someone
- make tracks
- make up
- make up (for)
- make up (the) leeway
- make up for
- make up for (something)
- make up for lost time
- make up for something
- make up ground
- make up leeway
- make up one's mind