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How to use box in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Box means a cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid. Example: “I’m really in a box now.”

Examples of box by meaning

nounA cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

  • a box of books

nounA compartment or receptacle for receiving items.

  • post box post office box
  • She'd picked up the high-tech phone from a post office box in Toronto a month ago.2015 March, Cindy Gerard, chapter 10, in Running Blind, 1st Pocket Books paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 73

nounA numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.

  • Add five words for address if replies are to come to a box number address at any of our offices.1924 December 1, “The Broadcaster: A Department that will Find what You Want: A Central Clearing House for All Your Business Wants”, in C....

nounA predicament or trap.

  • I’m really in a box now.
  • He was putting her in a box and doing it deliberately.2000, Dee Henderson, chapter 5, in True Devotion (Uncommon Heroes; book 1), Sisters, Or.: Palisades, →ISBN; republished Carol Stream, Ill....

nounA cell used for solitary confinement.

  • I am in what you call 'the box' confined to a 'special' housing unit for punishment because I stabbed some guys who call they self godly and are always beaten up on gays and she males because they hate homosexuals.1987 August 15, Alberto Rodriguez, “What's Your Opinion, Brothers & Sisters?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 4
  • He had been in disciplinary confinement (“the box”)—punishment reserved for serious prison offenses—for 14 months.2009, Megan McLemore, Barred from Treatment

nounThe television.

  • She had somehow trained herself by now to block her ears to the ghastly sound of the dreaded box.1988, Roald Dahl, “The Ghost”, in Matilda, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished as “The Ghost”, in Matilda, New York, N.Y.: Puffin...

nounA computer, or the case in which it is housed.

  • a UNIX box

nounA gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.

  • Joshua Newman, until last month a co-owner of CrossFit NYC, which says it is the world's largest box, recalled a member in the gym's early days who was nicknamed "Welcoming Committee."2014 August 8, Courtney Rubin, “CrossFit Flirting: Talk Burpee to Me”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022
  • Ter Kuile says people will sometimes bring their kids to their CrossFit "box," which is CrossFit for "gym."2017 June 24, Julie Beck, “How CrossFit Acts Like a Religion”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022
  • Even CrossFitters disagree on how to read the clowns; some box owners join outsider critics in condemning them as dangerous and distance themselves from boxes that still display them.2018 June 21, Mark Hay, “Some CrossFit Gyms Feature Pictures of These Puking, Bleeding Clowns”, in VICE, archived from the original on 30...

More sentences with box

  • Time to tell all the ballots cast by voters in the box.From the entry cast
  • Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.From the entry unicode
  • He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.From the entry hack
  • I've put out the stock and broken down the boxes, it's just facing left to do.From the entry face
  • The wholesaler broke the container loads into palettes and boxes for local retailers.From the entry break
  • The exterminator will bring a key thingy that can open the bait boxes.From the entry key
  • Pack the boxes, but hold out a few blue ones for later.From the entry hold out
  • The text box won't receive the user's keystrokes unless you explicitly focus it.From the entry focus
  • We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.From the entry attic
  • The box was not empty – I felt some positive substance within it.From the entry positive
  • There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.From the entry nest
  • Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?From the entry favour
  • I'm working through this box set of the TV series 'Downton Abbey'.From the entry through
  • This software has to work out of the box, without any fancy installation.From the entry out of the box
  • A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.From the entry blag
  • Please completely fill in the box for your answer, using a number “2” pencil.From the entry completely
  • Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.From the entry segregate
  • I warned him he'd be getting a huge box of birthday presents from me.From the entry warn
  • Brendan had the dumb job of moving boxes from one conveyor belt to another.From the entry dumb
  • I worked all day and managed to get all the boxes unpacked.From the entry unpacked
  • A train without the power plant is just a bunch of metal boxes on wheels.From the entry power plant
  • The boss wants some new ideas—it's time to think outside the box.From the entry outside the box
  • The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.From the entry brim
  • In the dark he came across an old box by accident.From the entry come across
  • The box had a gimmick to make the coin appear to vanish.From the entry gimmick
  • The magician's box was gimmicked with a wire that made it appear to open on its own.From the entry gimmick
  • Can I have a box of sweeties for being a good boy?From the entry sweetie

Meaning of box

  1. noun A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
  2. noun A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
  3. noun A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.

Full definition of box

Questions about box in a sentence

How do you use box in a sentence?
Box is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I’m really in a box now.”
What is a short sentence with box?
“a UNIX box”
What does box mean?
Box means a cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: box (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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