A boxlike vehicle was parked beside the tilted tower. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
From its center rose a long, massive boxlike rectangle. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift Jr And His Giant Robot]
It was a boxlike machine with a pistol grip on the side. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
Each pretz stick is about five inches long, and boxlike. From Wordnik.com. [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference
Niko wheeled out a boxlike instrument, an X-ray scanner. From Wordnik.com. [3rd Degree]
Presently the doors opened to show a tiny, boxlike room, empty. From Wordnik.com. [A Gift From Earth]
He brought the boxlike tray to the bed and set it in front of her. From Wordnik.com. [Sexy Beast IV]
The front of the boxlike part was covered with switches and knobs. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
Jeri pulled a boxlike contrivance out of a pocket, snapped it open. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Of The Galaxy]
There is a modern boxlike building standing where Ida used to live. From Wordnik.com. [View from the Northern Border] Reference
She saw a huge fat boxlike creature trundling along beneath the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
In Figure 16, a radiator is shown in a boxlike structure in the cellar. From Wordnik.com. [General Science] Reference
Saw some tall kinda boxlike things through the clouds, coming in to MSP. From Wordnik.com. [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference
From a drawer in the desk he produced a boxlike, mounted magnifying glass. From Wordnik.com. [Kajira Of Gor]
I recognized the primitive boxlike structure and rumpled brown hat at once. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Anthony patted the boxlike gas chromatograph and grinned like a proud father. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodstream] Reference
We could find out which of them had used the boxlike elevator once or not at all. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota Menage] Reference
In the center was a low boxlike structure made entirely of iron that was called the tank. From Wordnik.com. [Half of Paradise] Reference
In front of the boxlike landing boats a great door slid open and air from the lock rushed out. From Wordnik.com. [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference
Suddenly he felt something hard and boxlike under the last blanket and he tore it off quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Sabotage in Space] Reference
This one was boxlike, square with solid wooden panels around the sides and across the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
In front of the boxlike landing boats a great door slid open, and air from the lock rushed out. From Wordnik.com. [Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet] Reference
His eyes widened when he recognized Thom and Juilin, narrowed at the boxlike wagon behind them. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
A boxlike shrub, Myrtella bennigseniana, is endemic to the savanna environments of Yap and Guam. From Wordnik.com. [Yap tropical dry forests] Reference
He saw the aliens grouped around the square, boxlike buildings, watching and waiting for trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
On the other hand, in the last days of the Martian hegemony they went in for a boxlike simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Way Home]
A spiral cord joined the boxlike part to another one which was small enough to be held in the hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
The plastic mass when it filled the boxlike structure to the top was smoothed off and allowed to dry. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
Periscope - A boxlike arrangement with two mirrors for looking over the top without exposing the napper. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
The latter opens in the afternoon, by which time every little boxlike shop is tenanted by its proprietor. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
He and the three cadets stared out at a small metallic boxlike object attached to the underside of the stabilizer fin. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt on Venus] Reference
Then they came to a boxlike closing of the valley to cañon walls, and here the trail evidently followed the stream bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Aunt 'Mira rose to respond, and as she went into the little boxlike hall she failed to quite close the sitting room door. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
Kit and Astro immediately took charge of getting the bulky boxlike chamber back to Deimos where it could be opened safely. From Wordnik.com. [Treachery in Outer Space] Reference
The concrete walkways are uneven and cracked, the boxlike homes are cramped and often the budget barely covers operating expenses. From Wordnik.com. [RETIREMENT HOMES: A FINAL BOW FOR AGING STARS] Reference
He did so, and then he was told to bear a hand; and, following directions that were given him, he seized hold of the boxlike tonneau. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
The air began whistling past the boxlike body of the jeep as Blalok increased the power to the drive and set the machine on automatic. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
To one side of the room, lead sheets lined a rough boxlike structure that Astro and Tom guessed was covering for the radioactive vein. From Wordnik.com. [Treachery in Outer Space] Reference
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