How to Use big-box in a Sentence

big-box

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  • 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 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 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
  • For instance, a pharmaceutical company will have a very different use case for quantum computing than a big-box retailer.
    Scott Buchholz, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024

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