Box and Sack

Box

Box noun - A covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things.

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Sack and box are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sack" instead a noun "Box".

Nearby Word: boxed

Sack noun - A container made of a flexible material (as paper or plastic).

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Box and sack are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Box" instead a noun "Sack".

Nearby Words: sacked, sacking, sackful

old	old box	old sack
full	full box	full sack
single	single box	single sack
simple	simple box	simple sack
Other adjectives: heavy, poor, small, entire, large, big, bottomless, huge, wooden, blue, little, tiny, black, traditional, literal, pink, giant, red.

Dragon Mango: The goblin king refuses a sack of gold and demands something useful like a chicken or a box of donuts, saying that they have literally whole walls made of the that "worthless gold".

Source: Worthless Yellow Rocks
Touching a cockatrice corpse without gloves will also instantly petrify the player if the cockatrice corpse is in a container (chest, box, sack, bag of holding, oilskin).

Source: The Dev Team Thinks Of Everything / NetHack
Worthless Yellow Rocks: The goblin king refuses a sack of gold and demands something useful like a chicken or a box of donuts, saying that they have literally whole walls made of the that "worthless gold".

Source: Webcomic / Dragon Mango

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