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as in coffin
a boxlike container for holding a dead body the only way I'm ever leaving this hospital room is in a box

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as in TV
an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound would you switch on the box so that we can watch the news?

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box

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noun (2)

box

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verb

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Recent Examples of box
Noun
Jalon Walker probably checks a ton of boxes for the Colts. Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025 Store in a cool, dry spot in a bread box, paper bag, or cloth bread bag, allowing the bread to breathe while keeping it protected. Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
There was also Crown Royal, a gallon of Grey Goose Vodka, Hennessy XO and boxed wine. Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025 Leonard Ellerbe helped boxing icon Floyd Mayweather Jr. make millions of dollars. Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 5 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for box
Recent Examples of Synonyms for box
Verb
  • That trend already spiraled into real-world hostility in 2024; while the song played at a bar in Germany, a crowd reportedly yelled slurs at a Black woman and punched her in the face, with one man allegedly Nazi-saluting.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2025
  • With that win, Niemann punched his ticket to Oakmont for the U.S. Open.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The next day, animal control officers returned to the home and knocked on the door, but no one answered, authorities said.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Jey landed a big uppercut early in the match that knocked Gunther on his butt.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton hit the game-winning shot, crossing over Antetokounmpo and driving to the basket for a right-handed layup with 1.3 seconds left.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 2 May 2025
  • The western starring Alec Baldwin, who also came up with the story and serves as a producer, was hit by tragedy during production in October 2021 when Baldwin’s prop gun discharged during a rehearsal, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and also injuring director-screenwriter Joel Souza.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 1 May 2025
Verb
  • Then with two outs, Amed Rosario smacked an RBI single.
    Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Once the screen comes, Dort smacked his inside leg into Hayes’ outside one.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The two rivals slapped each other, and Charlotte missed a spear in the corner.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The Republican president slapped 10% tariffs on most goods entering the country but delayed the implementation of higher levies, pending negotiations.
    Trevor Hunnicutt, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In recent national headlines were a fatal crash of a tour helicopter in New York, a small plane that crashed in Florida and two commercial jets that clipped wings at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The women, with a better weight-to-strength ratio, can just clip on that pole like a pair of koalas and sit up there all day.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • That’s when residents all over the city threw open their windows and climbed onto fire escapes, clapping, banging pots and pans, and shouting at full volume to salute the health care workers who were battling a novel coronavirus that had overrun the city.
    Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In the bottom of the sixth inning, Smith banged his wrist while tagging out Ian Happ at a play at the plate.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The estate's lawsuit said Clyde Leach’s Tesla Model Y suddenly accelerated, went off the road and slammed into a pillar at an Ohio gas station.
    Mike Scarcella, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • However, prosecutors allege that a drunk and angry Read knowingly slammed her SUV into her boyfriend -- Boston police officer John O'Keefe -- outside of a get-together at another officer's home and left him to die in a blizzard in January 2022.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2025

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