How to Use sandbox in a Sentence

sandbox

noun

• This makes the sandbox in which the MCU now plays much bigger.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2021
• To watch them is to see that any small square of space can be your sandbox.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• His first trip to the Paris sandbox since 2015 was a success.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 28 June 2019
• The sandbox game has sold over 200 million copies and is one of the best games ever made.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2020
• Who wouldn’t want to play in the Potterverse sandbox for a bit longer?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2022
• Anyone who comes here wants to play in that big sandbox.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• Along with a long slide, the lower deck has a 15-square-foot sandbox that's plenty of fun.
  — Samantha De Leon, Chron, 15 Mar. 2021
• That sandbox has at times seemed more like a boxing ring.
  — Maddie Hanna, Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• This tiny sandbox is like a zen garden for adults, but more fun.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2020
• In the field is a giant sandbox, a cornhole area and a tetherball pole.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• But the Riverside mom doesn’t mean a place with swing sets, sandboxes and slides.
  — Brittany Woolsey, Daily Pilot, 29 Aug. 2019
• Of course if that is too much structure, users can always play in the ‘sandbox’.
  — Carolyn Graybeal, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2015
• Just sit down over there in that sandbox by your piano.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 26 June 2018
• And as much of the world closed down in 2020, creators and fans alike found even more space to play within that sandbox.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2020
• The chickens have since been fenced in the back, with a long run, and the sandbox now belongs entirely to them.
  — Allison Eckelkamp, Good Housekeeping, 19 Jan. 2018
• The new rules also say each kid in a sandbox must have his or her own shovel and pail.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• If your kid spills a cup of juice on it or buries it in the sandbox, Amazon will replace it for free.
  — Wired, 7 Nov. 2019
• The tour was the first up-close look at the sinkhole site, which is like a big kid's sandbox with cranes, diggers and trucks of all sizes.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2017
• The official rules for the sandbox scheme were published in the Thai Royal Gazette June 29.
  — Sumnima Lama, Quartz, 30 June 2021
• There's even a massive sandbox and a charming playground where the younger kids can play.
  — Brianna Griff, Chron, 23 Jan. 2023
• Chase also likes to dig, so Lundy is building him a sandbox.
  — Linda Marx, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• In between is a kind of parallel play, as in a sandbox.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2020
• In the fifth room, smiling faces hover over the sandbox while kids create their own ocean floor.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
• What are the travel restrictions for the Phuket sandbox?
  — Sumnima Lama, Quartz, 30 June 2021
• Even after the strike — or strikes — and all this contraction, the sandbox is still going to be big.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
• Which makes her new Netflix series a bit like playtime in the sandbox.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2018
• How did the state's largest indoor sandbox get started?
  — Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Feb. 2024
• All three of us were just so happy to play together in the sandbox of Spider-Man.
  — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Apr. 2022
• There’s live music and theatrical shows, games and contests, plus a foam machine, a giant sandbox, and a wishing wall.
  — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2024
• Everybody has a little kid in the sandbox inside of them, wanting to be accepted.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024