Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "collection box".
The precious quarter clanked forlornly as it tumbled out of sight into the collection box.
No sooner did his breathing suggest sleep than I took the half-full collection box from the piano and disappeared into the store.
I took five pfennigs from the cash drawer, contributed them to the Winter Aid, and returned the collection box thus enriched to the piano, so that Matzerath might find it and kill the rest of his Sunday shaking it for the cold and hungry.
She observed that somebody had stolen her collection box and most of the cold sodas.
It was not too long afterward that Lacey's helmet focused on a Petersburg street and a man, slim and fiftyish with tight-rolled hair and a skin so black it looked purple, who dropped the capsule into a collection box and then thumbed in coins until the postage light glowed green.
Each of them carried a small wooden collection box with a slot in the lid and they spread out and went to each of the tables.
I was angry with a neighbor, so I marked a bit of bark against him and slipped it into the collection box on the common.