How to Use box score in a Sentence

box score

noun
  • But that is where things start to break away in terms of box score statistics.
    Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Prescott was impressive even if the box score doesn’t suggest it at first glance.
    Drew Davison, star-telegram, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The counting stats are nice, but Brown’s started to thrive outside the box score.
    Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • For a number of years in the late 1800s, no box scores were available.
    Philip Bump, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Invariably, the problem gets fixed and the final box score tells the story.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Winton Woods played balanced and complete football based on the box score.
    Adam Baum, Cincinnati.com, 9 Sep. 2017
  • His dad would delight in Medina’s knowing all the box scores, all the stats, all the players.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Coach David Beaty admitted as much in his postgame radio interview, citing the stat that jumped off the box score.
    Jesse Newell, kansascity, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Last weekend, Odom burned scouting reports, box scores and printouts of social media posts critical of Mizzou in a cooler in front of his players.
    Aaron Reiss, kansascity, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The box scores will look the same this season, but the NBA has provided an updated scoring system for fantasy games this season.
    Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Following a crushing road loss at Clemson, the Tigers put together a weird-as-all-hell box score in a 24-10 win over Mercer.
    Alex Martin Smith, ajc, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Nate's box scores, but a lot of the plays from the game.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • Some of them show up in the box score, some of them don’t.
    Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
  • The fifth, a 24-10 win against N.C. State, should have been a tossup based on the box score.
    Christopher Smith, al, 11 Oct. 2021
  • But the box score was pretty ugly for the rest of the Bucks.
    David Brandt, ajc, 9 July 2021
  • All the telltale signs of a smooth road blowout were right there in the box score.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2021
  • The guy’s worth goes further than the points column in the box score.
    Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Bridges doesn’t score the most points or do the most of anything that might pop in the box score.
    Ben Cohen, WSJ, 1 June 2021
  • Why even risk it just to get an assist in the box score?
    Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Hart’s impact on the game didn’t translate to the box score.
    Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • But 24 years ago Tuesday, Bryant was just a blip in the box score.
    Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020
  • So, The Freak Show will fill up a few box scores this season.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 27 Aug. 2019
  • What the box score won’t show is how close the Dodgers were to disaster.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • This was one of those days when a stroke of luck looks like a stroke of genius in the box score.
    Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 9 Dec. 2017
  • And then there are the intangibles, the things that don’t show up in the box score.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Sengun scored nine points in his 24 minutes and was a +20 in the box score.
    Rahat Huq, Chron, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The big 0 in the box score: Confetti pieces fired into the sky.
    Dan Gelston, courant.com, 7 May 2018
  • To be able to watch it in person and not just check a box score will be a lot of fun.
    Chris Payne, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2018
  • But box scores and stats tell only part of the story of Mays’ greatness.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
  • Listen to this article The hits just keep on coming for the Mets — not the ones that show up on a box score, but the metaphorical ones.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 29 May 2024

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