How to Use bandbox in a Sentence
bandbox
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The game was held in Benet’s Alumni Gym, a bandbox that dates to the 1950s.
—Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 18 Jan. 2022
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Go one way to the city’s showpiece harbor, the other to its bandbox of a baseball park.
—Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2022
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The Padres were minor league, playing in a wonderful bandbox at the foot of Broadway called Lane Field.
—Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 May 2017
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The field dimensions will not allow for the bandbox some people thought would favor home runs — the foul lines will be at least 320 feet.
—Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2017
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The bad news for any team hankering to take swings in that bandbox is, well, [gestures at the section about Verlander and Cole and Greinke].
—Jon Tayler, SI.com, 26 Sep. 2019
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But the bandbox in the northeastern Mission was only a temporary home to the Giants.
—Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2018
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But despite playing in the desert bandbox that is Chase Field, Arizona’s offense has lagged behind.
—Jon Tayler, SI.com, 18 July 2017
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The Lake Placid arena was an 8,000-seat bandbox shaped like a cockfighting amphitheater.
—Gerald Eskenazi, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
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The Red Sox finished last in home runs in the American League—while playing their home games in a bandbox with almost no foul territory.
—Tom Verducci, SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
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The changes certainly won’t turn PK Park into a bandbox but the extreme edge for pitchers, particularly in the early spring, will be lessened.
—James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2022
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Castro also knew that the wind blowing in would transform Wrigley Field, the brick-and-ivy bandbox, into a pitchers’ paradise and turn just about any fly ball into a carnival ride for fielders.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 May 2017
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That’s entirely possible if the pitching holds up, even in the bandbox ballparks that litter that National League, and the Giants feel good about their rotation and (with good health) bullpen.
—Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
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This ballpark will never be mistaken for a bandbox, but homers have been more prevalent in Little Havana this season than ever before.
—Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 June 2017
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When Radford played at Charleston Southern during Green’s junior year, the bandbox of a gym was packed with students, including a group of football players in the front row who were talented hecklers.
—BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
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Taking two of three in the Astros' boisterous bandbox would be a significant service break: Houston entered Game 4 7-0 at home this postseason, but has lost five of seven on the road.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2017
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This state’s first-ever regular season Major League Baseball game is set for Thursday, but with just a week to go workers were still assembling the ballpark, an 8,000-seat bandbox carved out of the world’s most famous cornfield.
—Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2021
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Instead, the committee shoehorned senators, witnesses, the press and 20 members of the public into a bandbox room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
—Chad Pergram, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
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Their phenomenal power display of April has carried into May, turning Citi Field — once a tormenting wasteland of warning-track flyouts — into a bandbox.
—Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 4 May 2016
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The game was held in Benet’s Alumni Gym, a bandbox that dates to the 1950s.
—Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 18 Jan. 2022
-
Go one way to the city’s showpiece harbor, the other to its bandbox of a baseball park.
—Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2022
-
The Padres were minor league, playing in a wonderful bandbox at the foot of Broadway called Lane Field.
—Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 May 2017
-
The field dimensions will not allow for the bandbox some people thought would favor home runs — the foul lines will be at least 320 feet.
—Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2017
-
The bad news for any team hankering to take swings in that bandbox is, well, [gestures at the section about Verlander and Cole and Greinke].
—Jon Tayler, SI.com, 26 Sep. 2019
-
But the bandbox in the northeastern Mission was only a temporary home to the Giants.
—Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2018
-
But despite playing in the desert bandbox that is Chase Field, Arizona’s offense has lagged behind.
—Jon Tayler, SI.com, 18 July 2017
-
The Lake Placid arena was an 8,000-seat bandbox shaped like a cockfighting amphitheater.
—Gerald Eskenazi, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
-
The Red Sox finished last in home runs in the American League—while playing their home games in a bandbox with almost no foul territory.
—Tom Verducci, SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
-
The changes certainly won’t turn PK Park into a bandbox but the extreme edge for pitchers, particularly in the early spring, will be lessened.
—James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2022
-
Castro also knew that the wind blowing in would transform Wrigley Field, the brick-and-ivy bandbox, into a pitchers’ paradise and turn just about any fly ball into a carnival ride for fielders.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 May 2017
-
That’s entirely possible if the pitching holds up, even in the bandbox ballparks that litter that National League, and the Giants feel good about their rotation and (with good health) bullpen.
—Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
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