The phrase
"unpacked boxes" means that the boxes have been brought into a place but have not been opened or their contents taken out yet.
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Right now there are still stacks and stacks
of unpacked boxes in the basement, so we really don't see ourselves spending any time down here in the near future.
As his press secretary, Sean Spicer, was still
unpacking boxes in his spacious new West Wing office, Trump grew increasingly and visibly enraged.
I was
still unpacking boxes when, one afternoon, I heard wild screams from a crowd followed by an amplified voice booming through the open window: «Ladies and gentlemen!
We're still
unpacking boxes from our move more than a year ago, and our car floor is a holding tank for squashed Cheerios.
Our classroom staff will get to tour the building soon and before too long it will be time to
start unpacking boxes upon boxes of furniture and materials.
Half of my garage at the old house was
unpacked boxes which I stupidly moved again to the new house.
While I'd love to spend the whole
day unpacking boxes of pretty things to set out, the reality is that I spend most of my day dumping random things out of boxes that have no home yet (thus, the look of our kitchen tonight), or I spend hours on the phone trying to set up garbage service or mail service.
Um... I only
JUST unpacked a box of stuff from my travels, and it's been a week since I've been back.
As a bonus, they're great because you will unpack within a shorter time frame in order to return the bins, rather than putting off
unpacking boxes for later.
Setup and Installation (5 out of 5):
After unpacking the box I installed the car seat without looking at the instructions to see how easy the process was.
I'm sharing all of our before photos (complete
with unpacked boxes and paint samples splotched all over the walls), and I hope you'll join me on our journey to turn this house into our next home!
So,
between unpacking boxes, building and painting, and applying for jobs, I have been tracking down old lease information and hiring and working with a new property manager.
But that will change once I
finally unpack my boxes of work clothes after the move to my new place this weekend if all goes well!
I tend to get a bit hypoglycemic (even while eating low GI index foods) when I'm physically active for long periods of time... like now, when I'm
unpacking boxes ad infinitum.
Last month, we finally moved into the house and since then, we've been spending our spare
time unpacking boxes.
Mark Bridgett,
who unpacked the box, concluded, «I just can't come up with any uses for 768 plastic packages and 768 ripped open jiffy bags.
Debby had two dreams: To make their Brooklyn apartment functional as quickly as possible and to be able to spend Thanksgiving upstate with her family feeling at home and not surrounded
by unpacked boxes and empty spaces.
We moved house back in May and I am still
slowly unpacking boxes — some of which were packed by people other than myself over 4 years ago when I was bedridden for a long stretch following a car accident.
We are vested in our successful home - buying experience from your first online property search to the day you start
unpacking boxes in your new home - and beyond.
We spent most of the
day unpacking boxes, lifting and moving so it was pretty tiring, we also did a big food shop in the afternoon.
Akunyili Crosby and her Texas - born husband, Justin Crosby, who is also an artist, had moved into their modernist ranch house the previous July, she explained, though given her pregnancy and work demands, they had only recently
finished unpacking boxes and hanging paintings acquired through trades with friends like Wangechi Mutu, Kehinde Wiley, and Charles Gaines.
At this point, the window treatments are off and the room is loaded
with unpacked boxes and quite possibly every single picture frame I've ever owned.
It seems to take forever to settle into a new space:
between unpacking boxes, setting everything up in their new places, trying to paint rooms, hang decor and do some upgrades!
(My sister laughed pretty hard as she was
unpacking those boxes — let's see, a few paperback books, electronics, a razor, box of Kleenex, baby toys, two diapers, a magazine, a power cord, bag of tortilla chips, a pillow, what else can we cram in here?)
On the level above the museum, the tables of the community conference room offered plenty of space for us to
unpack our boxes.
Lugging around furniture,
unpacking boxes and organizing is tiring work!
But the kids are all set up with schools, a doctor, and a dentist, and The Hubby and I are working on that as well, we found some fabulous parks, met a few neighbors, and we only have a couple of small piles of not - yet -
unpacked boxes.