bread bin BrE
breadbox AmE

She went to the bread bin and seemed to be preparing to make herself a piece of toast.

There was only a crust in the bread bin.

There are some nice biscuits in the bread bin if you fancy a little snack.

"I'd better see the kitchen in case you've got him hidden in the bread bin."

Laura took a large plain loaf from the bread bin, and began slicing it.

She sought biscuits in the bread bin, the vegetable rack, on the dresser.

Perhaps BR had also left the red letter behind the bread bin, and been disconnected?

And the lid of the bread bin.

"We don't want specialists in bread bin design.

They kept bread in a bread bin and biscuits in tins.

Propping it against the bread bin, he filled the electric kettle and switched it on.

After a 10-minute search, I find my coffee mug in the cupboard with the pans or discover the pepper mill in the bread bin.

Perhaps she'd slide a copy of Oliver Twist into the bread bin and have a chinwag about good old Charles with her toast.

The Bread Bin (1974)

Leaving the table again, she took a package from the bread bin, unwrapped it, cut several slices of whatever it was, and set them on a plate.

'Cereals in the cupboard, bread in the bread bin.'

A breadbox (chiefly American) or a bread bin (chiefly British) is a container for storing bread and other baked goods to keep them fresh.

In the 1960s, the Spanish Garden design, that was very successful on dinner ware and tea sets, adorned articles such as a bread bin and chopping board.

In the bread bin there was indeed a loaf- Mrs Saxmundham must have put it there earlier in the week - and he sawed off three grey slices.

These are decorative panels, caskets, boxes, various sets of kitchen stuff, such as hardboards, bread bins, saltcellars, etc., as well as children furniture and toys, including the most popular painted rocking horse.

Open-mouthed, Scarlet had followed their progress through bread bin, fridge and pantry and, all too frequently, had had to fly to the shops to replenish her stores before Brian could become aware of the ravages.

If her husband was very late home from work, if water began to drip through the ceiling or the gas bill was far larger than usual - Annette's immediate reaction was to rush to the bread bin or the biscuit jar.

The two-storey rooftop extension to the office space, shaped like a 'bread bin', was designed by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, an architectural practice that had offices in the Thames Wharf complex but has since moved to Island Studios, 22 St Peter's Square.

'It's too much for you Ciss; you know the baby will need feeding in the middle of it and he'll get all upset and really Jo-Jo would be quite happy if you just filled the bread bin with sponge fingers and sat her in front of it.

Sure enough the chip pan's in there, craftily hidden under a full dinner service, the toaster that I nicked from Ashworth Electricals, a kettle, a copy of Marvellous Meals with Mince, and a bread bin complete with six floured baps and a loaf of Mighty White.

Without a backpack of his own, Dean opened the bread box for the next best thing.

She pawed the bread box open but it was empty.

The cellular telephone inside is prehistoric, big as a bread box.

That aluminum contraption on the counter is, last I looked, the bread box.

Eilene took a cellophane bag from the bread box and came to the table.

Hands as wide as bread boxes slapped onto the railing.

She straightened, wiped the telltale moisture from her face, and reached toward the bread box.

"You was complaining about the old bread box."

By the time a problem is noticed, the problem has gotten bigger than a bread box."

He spat and pedaled on, glaring at the "bread box" driver.

And they're bigger than a bread box.

He yanked out packets of ham and cheese and went to the bread box.

"I've looked into her bread box and her scrap pail.

I forgot the toast," she said matter-of-factly, and walked over to the bread box.

The facing was some kind of brushed aluminum in big squares, so that the place looked like an ugly bread box fallen on hard times.

Inside the bread box was half a loaf of whole wheat, tightly resealed and clamped.

Crazed cutthroat slightly larger than French bread boxes will rush for the fly.

A wooden bread box is repainted and renamed.

"Harry is deafer than a bread box," Tycho reported.

"Get out of the way, bread box!"

"Well, we had some company who was going to come and didn't, so she was overstocked in the bread box this week.

The largest mammal to live during the Age of Dinosaurs was about the size of a bread box.

On the counter was the old wooden bread box Veronique had rescued from the basement and turned into a spice rack.

"If it's smaller than a bread box."

The shot went wild and I was on the road, flat on my stomach with something bigger than a bread box on top of me.