bandbox

Example Sentences

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In the best essay ever written — baseball or otherwise — John Updike once tagged Fenway Park “a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2019

Even in a bandbox home park, he is 3-2 with a 3.50 ERA in nine starts.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2019

Instead, the committee shoehorned senators, witnesses, the press and 20 members of the public into a bandbox room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

From Fox News • Sep. 27, 2018

Given Chicago’s right-handed heavy lineup playing in the bandbox stadium, LeBlanc could have suffered a similar fate, if not worse.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2016

To Hannah I give the bandbox she wanted and all the patchwork I leave hoping she ‘will remember me, when it you see’.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott