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Recent Examples of bandbox
Noun
Since Citizens Bank Park is a bandbox, adding the Seagers to a lineup led by Bryce Harper, Rhys Hoskins, and JT Realmuto could change the balance of power within the division – and might push the Phils into postseason play for the first time in more than a decade. Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021 The combination of lights and music over at the lyric little bandbox of a ballpark gives the 111-year-old joint the feel of a Vegas casino when someone’s rung up a slot machine for a cool million. Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023 Thanks in part to Schwarber’s .192 batting average, Philadelphia ranks 10th in the majors with 230 runs scored and only ninth (tied) with 58 home runs – hardly good production for a team that plays half its games in Citizens Bank Park, a notorious bandbox that visiting pitchers detest. Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 3 June 2022 Ron was artistic from a young age, drawing houses, barns and windmills — and in one instance Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, showing a baseball leaving that beloved little bandbox. Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for bandbox
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bandbox
Adjective
  • Two goals on his MLS debut against Montreal was a tidy start.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • There were three fights in the first nine seconds, tidy one-on-one bouts.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Roughly the size of hatboxes, these access points would be unlike ordinary cellular base stations.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2014
  • On the floor is a hatbox from a hat shop in London.
    Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Her daughter, 33, also wore a look from the McQueen spring/summer 2025 collection, featuring a black vest with white pleated chiffon trim.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Her eyewear was usually cushioned by her coiffed blonde hair; her beauty aesthetic built intentionally around ‘notes on bangs’: From side-swept to feathery wisps, thick curtains, and a pixie fringed trim.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • One snuffbox had been a present for George V on his 55th birthday in 1920 while the other featured 3,000 diamonds and was bought by Queen Mary in 1932 for £1,000, the equivalent in modern money of around $75,000 according to the Bank of England's inflation calculator.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The snuffbox is the most widespread of the Epioblasma genus of mussels.
    Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • The temple itself has some neat features, such as a rock that appears to be levitating, and there's also a training droid so your minifigures can practise their Jedi moves with it.
    Kimberley Snaith, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection Available on: Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC There are few first-person shooters more influential than the Halo games and this compilation, which was first released in 2014, bundles everything together in one neat package.
    Joshua Lamb, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Still, there were vacant or largely vacant flagship properties — the Gothic jewel box at 281 Park Avenue that Fotografiska, its sole tenant, left eight years before the end of its lease.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The club has two spaces: a members’ lounge with a state-of-the-art locker room and the private jewel box bar Falcon Room.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Thousands of tons of drugs have moved through the city over the decades, hidden in vehicle compartments, in suburban stash houses, and semitrailer loads of everything from avocados to live sheep.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025
  • On the back of the robot near the charging contacts is a dirty water compartment, separate from the mopping liquid reservoir, that pulls free by pressing an inset release lever.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 28 Feb. 2025

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“Bandbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bandbox. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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