penalty box

noun

: an area alongside an ice hockey rink to which penalized players are confined for the duration of their penalty

Examples of penalty box in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Later in the third, Washington goalie Logan Thompson kept the lead at two by stopping Blake Lizotte on a breakaway just after the Pittsburgh forward came out of the penalty box. — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

Lars Eller fed Jones coming down the left side just as Dmitry Kulikov was coming out of the penalty box. — Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026

Müller ran into the penalty box and fired a one-touch shot into the net. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

Illumina is a genomics sequencing company that spent years in the penalty box. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for penalty box

• heterodox
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• orthodox