strongbox
IPA: strˈɔŋbɑks
noun
- A sturdy box with a lock for storing valuables.
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Examples of "strongbox" in Sentences
- Child, knowledge is a treasury and your heart its strongbox.
- Curled on the lid of the strongbox was a jet rosary, its small crucifix shining in the moonlight.
- The strongbox is not large enough that a computer fit in it. (old English) the strongbox is not large enough that a computer would fit in it. (new English)
- Inside the strongbox were the stolen secrets of the Meddlers: the answers he’d been seeking since he’d woken, devoid of memory, in an entombed city months before.
- At that time Allison was performing with his group "Man Size Safe," a tongue in cheek reference to a strongbox reportedly kept in then Vice President Dick Cheney's office.
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