Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boxlike
Adjective
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Suddenly panicked, Maria turns the car around and heads back to her boxy, modernist house with Danny and locks him in her basement.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025 -
Made of stone, the interior walls form boxy configurations that are difficult to adapt to the lives of people who want ease of movement.—
Joseph Giovannini,
Architectural Digest,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Brightly colored blocky floats bob down the lazy river which weaves through arch ways that look like they have been made from giant Lego bricks.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Beyond the site rise the blocky tops of many-coloured containers, the odd crane.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For Ethiopia the unveiling of the 74-billion cubic meter dam, which has been 14 years in the making and cost $5 billion, was the culmination of a dream and proved the East African nation the winner in a bitter diplomatic battle over its construction.—
Kate Bartlett,
NPR,
9 Sep. 2025
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The PoS-2 will deliver 50 billion cubic meters of gas annually from Western Siberia to northern China via Mongolia.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The were only a few objects and all had a single, cubical shape.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
1 Feb. 2025
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The secret lay in the surface area of cubical foams.—
Jordana Cepelewicz,
Quanta Magazine,
10 Feb. 2023
Adjective
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Stylistically, these bulky sculptures are like many in the show, whether large or small — solid, blockish, refined but not delicate.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Aug. 2021
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Bold and blockish, but soft around the edges.—
Peter Hartlaub,
San Francisco Chronicle,
19 Apr. 2021
Adjective
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This place exists in autonomy, in relief, a dry, febrile land of cuboid houses and scrawled horizons.—
Maya Boyd,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Aug. 2022
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The hefty hardback, which weighs nearly eight pounds, comprises 222 pages and more than 125 illustrations dedicated to LV’s iconic cuboid creations.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
21 July 2022
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“Boxlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boxlike. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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