How to Use big-box in a Sentence

big-box

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• The roughly 1-acre parcels have a big-box store behind it, the survey shows.
  — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
• The nearest big-box store is a 120-mile drive, one-way, from the tribe’s most populous town.
  — Shane Mitchell, Saveur, 6 Dec. 2023
• This comes at the same time that big-box competitor Sam's Club slashed its sign-up fee to just $25.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2024
• And more of us are going to big-box stores like Walmart to buy groceries.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• In other words, discounts to big-box chains must be available to mom-and-pop stores, too.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
• The big-box retailer signed checks for three-fourths of the high-school comedy’s leads to reprise their roles.
  — Vulture, 1 Nov. 2023
• The other four lost their big-box cameras at a time when the city was more willing to move them to other hot spots.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
• The upswing contrasts sharply with the slump in the office building and big-box retail markets.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
• Indeed, nary a fast-food chain nor big-box store mars this historic postcard idyll.
  — Staff Author Published, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
• The big-box stores of that era, such as Sears Roebuck, sold furniture that was both affordable and built to last.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• The big-box stores can offer more convenience and lower prices.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2024
• Macy’s has it all on sale, as is tradition at the big-box retailer this time of year.
  — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 31 Aug. 2024
• Once again, the firm leads its big-box peers in customer satisfaction.
  — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• The heists aren’t plaguing just big-box complexes and mom-and-pop convenience stores.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
• The big-box retailer increased most of its plans by $5 to $65 a year to help offset expenses and keep its prices down.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
• Over the years, Catan has become a massive hit, paving the way for more intricate games to be sold at big-box retailers.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• Adelle Waldman Adelle Waldman’s novel looks at the hardships faced by part-time workers at a big-box store.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
• Two of the biggest names in big-box retail have boosted their bets on a growing trend for brick-and-mortar sales: smaller stores.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
• Like Home Depot, Lowe’s offers a big-box store level of trees to choose from, including live ones.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2023
• Through the end of 2024, all local grocery stores and big-box chains that sell meat products packaged in foam remain exempt.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
• Rental machines are available at big-box retailers and home stores.
  — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2023
• Malls have been rapidly losing customers to online shopping and big-box stores.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 26 July 2023
• Swap a ceramic crock from a big-box retailer for a vintage vase, or pick up some art at an estate sale.
  — Laura Fenton, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• The fields are now home to Walmart, Target and other big-box stores that lend an air of sameness in countless communities across the U.S.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• With plans to open a new 350-acre campus only two miles from its original office next year, the big-box chain has its sights set on moonshot growth.
  — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 7 June 2024
• The move by the big-box retailer follows similar steps by rivals.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2024
• The three big-box retailers have already made moves to win back inflation weary consumers.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 25 June 2024
• To research the book, Waldman spent six months emptying cargo trucks and shelving items at a big-box outlet near her home, in Rhinebeck, New York.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
• The toys are so popular, look-alikes from other toy brands are omnipresent from big-box stores to pharmacies and truck stops, and have sparked lawsuits from Jazwares.
  — Joe Mullich, TIME, 30 May 2024
• At the same time, the front end of drug stores, where snacks and household staples are sold, has become less profitable as shoppers buy more of these items online from Amazon and at big-box chains such as Walmart, Target and Costco.
  — Olesya Dmitracova, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024