How to Use box office in a Sentence

box office

noun
  • The box office will open at 10:00 a.m.
  • Some big hitters are on the way in the home stretch of the 2024 box office.
    Lindsey Bahr, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2024
  • That could give the movie one last big push at the box office.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 5 Oct. 2022
  • No Way Home is still killing it at the box office, and now she's got a spot in the Big Game.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The box office year has been moving in fits and starts.
    Lindsey Bahr, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The film also starred Leslie Mann and was a top film at the box office that year.
    Chloe Melas, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The Eras Tour movie broke box office records for a concert film.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
  • But the film was a box office success, and has since had a sequel.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • None of those films has made much money at the box office.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022
  • January tends to be a slow time of year at the box office.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The box office has an entrance from the lobby and one from the foyer.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • For the eighth time in the last two and a half months, a movie starring Tom Holland is No. 1 at the box office.
    Jake Coyle, ajc, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The film opened to No. 1 at the domestic box office over the weekend.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Tickets can be bought at the Hall High box office or at hallhighjazz.com or pnj.ludus.com.
    Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Most of that box office total came from the U.S., where the film earned about $181 million.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The model cuts down risk at the box office since the films don’t have such a high budgetary bar to clear.
    Frank Pallotta, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Four movies in, Thor is still bringing the hammer down at the box office.
    Lindsey Bahr, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • The film would gross more than $100 million worldwide at the box office.
    New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Harden said the movie saw 130 million sales at the box office.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Many have struggled at the box office, but so have a lot of other shows.
    Michael Paulson, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The Hindi film took just ten days to cross the $50 million-mark at the global box office.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The film was a box office success, with Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes as leads.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022
  • That would give the film the No. 1 spot at the box office, and nearly make back its $68 million budget.
    Frank Pallotta, CNN, 22 July 2022
  • The first Joker went on to make just over $1 billion at the global box office.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2024
  • But the film itself did not make a big impression at the box office.
    NBC News, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The film proved to be both a critical and box office success.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Here’s why some of the biggest box office hits are often passed over at the Oscars.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Tickets for the game go on sale to the public on July 18 through the Trash Pandas’ box office.
    al, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The hope for many productions is that the performances, and the potential award wins, can boost their box office tallies and extend their Broadway runs.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
  • Both the 2018 original and its sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, were box office and critical hits.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 7 June 2025

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