How to Use box in in a Sentence

box in

phrasal verb
  • To find ballot drop boxes in your area, check your county's election website.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Absentee ballots can also be deposited in the ballot drop box in the office's parking lot.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Think salt shakers with buttons as lids; wall shelves in leather, porcelain and lacquered wood; stools in ash wool embellished with leather mushrooms, and boxes in porcelain, ash wood and leather with a hot dog or burger on top.
    Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Raul's appointment would also tick off another box in that Ancelotti has reportedly wanted another member to join his coaching group.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • By luck, the store had the dress in a box in a back room.
    Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • And so although this is a love story, the love is not boxed in.
    Shayeza Walid, Variety, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The crowd of art lovers sips sake out of square wood boxes in keeping with the night’s theme.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • This could be in a closet or under a box in a dark room.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
  • An adornment built of rags, a corruption, a tin box in the craw of a doll.
    Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • My goal was to get out faster, but I got boxed in at the dog loop and couldn’t recover.
    Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • This time the elusive street artist made a police box in the City of London look like a fish tank.
    The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Djokovic strode calmly to a towel box in a corner to wipe off.
    Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The ground coffee comes in 12-ounce bags, while the K-cups are available in 12-count boxes in packs of three or six.
    Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2023
  • This, in many ways, is Ms. Hall in a nutshell: unwilling to be boxed in, an artist at heart.
    Thessaly La Force, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The officer who chased Smith used his patrol car to box in the Honda.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Three state troopers, including North, were able to box in the Hyundai, the report said.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2024
  • For those who have Team Edward merch stuffed in a memory box in the back of the closet, your dreams are about to come true.
    Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2024
  • And his diploma from Coral Park High School, which his daughter keeps in a box in her closet.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
  • Here's how to do it: Stand with a ball (medicine, soccer, or rubber playground ball) or a low box in front of you.
    Rozalynn S. Frazier, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The winds were expected to ease somewhat overnight and fire crews would attempt to box in the blaze, LaRusso said.
    CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Pale and gaunt, and with their heads shaved, they were seen behind the plate glass of the defendants’ box in a Russian courtroom.
    Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The newest set of parents, Juliet and Albert, laid eggs at the new nest box in early April of this year.
    Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 28 June 2023
  • Was that a good look for the former president to have boxes in a bathroom? REP.
    ABC News, 18 June 2023
  • Paul Salo: There's a .40 caliber gun box in that drawer.
    Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2024
  • But as Trap works through that thought exercise, the movie is quickly boxed in by its core conceit.
    Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Sitting next to the press box in those days was Campanella, in his wheelchair, taking in each game.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • They were addressed to a post office box in Burlington, Kentucky.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Her hometown of Enfield installed a gold mail box in her honor.
    Adam Kilgore, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • In June, boxes stored in the Lake Room were moved into the storage room, bringing the total number of boxes in that room to more than 80.
    Mika Gröndahl, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • To find ballot drop boxes in your area, check your county recorder's website.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024

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