How to Use box in in a Sentence

box in

phrasal verb

• 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
• The day after that, the new mom caught the rat herself in a cardboard box in her kitchen.
  — Jackie Delamatre, Curbed, 30 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Bollinger checked pretty much all of those boxes in our blind taste test.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 2 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Jones has loved what he’s seen from his owner’s box in recent weeks.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 23 Dec. 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 winning goal came after a foul and yellow card was called on Coastal Academy just left of the goal box in the 75th minute.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
• 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
• For example, Solange Knowles’s pillow-like hair couldn’t be boxed in, held back with nothing but a black stretchy headband.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 24 Feb. 2025