boxed (in)

past tense of box (in)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boxed (in)
Verb
  • The bar is housed in a building dating back to the 1800s and has a reputation for being haunted by former workers.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
  • An Air Control squadron and Air National Guard squadron are also housed at the base.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After the second inning, nine of Kirby’s final 15 hitters reached base, a stretch that included the homers by Giménez, Springer and Guerrero.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Readers of Karp’s letters are likely to encounter a cast of characters that has included Saint Augustine, Richard Nixon, French author Michel Houellebecq, and Samuel Huntington (a 20th century Harvard political scientist).
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There is nothing better on a chilly evening than creamy chicken and vegetables encased in a buttery, extra flaky crust.
    Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And yet, welcoming that idea can shock the system because our popular conception of the American Revolution is so often encased in bloodless, gallant myth.
    Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The tree produces an annual fall harvest of walnuts, enclosed in a green husk that darkens when ripe.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The team enclosed films of P6LAHB, P13LAHB, PHBV (a biodegradable PHB derivative), and PLA in mesh containers and left them on the seafloor.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the show, which Lincoln Hiatt and Andrew Golder created, contestants are confined to isolation pods with no sense of day or night, no human contact and no alliances – somewhat against the grain of the current spate of guessing game formats that require contestants to form pacts.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In Portland, anti-ICE protests have taken place nearly daily since June, largely confined to a block outside the ICE facility, about two miles south of downtown.
    Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Boxed (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boxed%20%28in%29. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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