receptacle

The average reader, he declares, is but an unwitting receptacle for media narratives.

Thefacebook was nothing but a platform—a receptacle for the contributions of its users.

As a result, health reform has become a bottomless receptacle for a host of free-floating fears harbored by many Americans.

She was cast into a bare and miserable dungeon, in that subterranean receptacle of woe, where there was not even a bed.

In this shallow receptacle lay an oval miniature which the man took out and held under the strong light of the gas jet.

Strange that he should be thus happy in a receptacle of so much pain and sorrow; yet he was light-hearted as the son of a grandee.

The letter f marks a receptacle for water, which seems to have been used for moistening the bread while baking.

Ida, awakened by her movements, watched her as she produced a tiny packet from the last-mentioned receptacle.