boxing (in)

present participle of box (in)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boxing (in)
Verb
  • There was no information immediately available about the condition of the building housing the dentist’s office .
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That difference shifts housing from 27 percent of a retiree’s budget in surplus states to 32 percent in shortfall states.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Riding a pair of fourth-down stops on defense, including a goal-line stand, and the 72-yard touchdown drive capped by Madsen, Boise State headed into halftime trailing just 14-7.
    Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the cast remains in the music industry to this day, including country singer and actor Charles Esten and pop singer Lennon Stella.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Leslie Cheek’s formerly private estate opened as a public garden and fine art center in 1960 and today is host to nearly a dozen gardens surrounding the family’s Georgian mansion, which has become a museum.
    Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That rapid rise underscores the investment frenzy surrounding the leaders of a technology with the potential to transform industries and economies.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Two big deck houses were erected enclosing bunks for 30, a galley and a ladies’ lounge.
    Eric DuVall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In December 1967, eleven years before The Sweet Dove Died was published, Barbara Pym wrote to Philip Larkin, enclosing her first draft.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The silky gel gets along with every curl type (our testers ranged from 2A to 3C), encasing spirals of all patterns in a pliable cast that helps keep them buoyant.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The open air feeling inside Palm Tree Club KC revolves around a blue fusion quartzite bar encasing a wavy bar-to-ceiling backbar acting as the spiral centerpiece for the entire space.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Boxing (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boxing%20%28in%29. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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