bandbox

Example Sentences

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Heck, call it Mash Madness, as the Phillies turned Citizens Bank Park into a cozy home bandbox for the second straight game — and with another fired-up, towel-waving crowd along for every long ball.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2022

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

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

Inevitably, this youngster, baby-faced and bandbox elegant, was mistrusted and permanently disparaged with the nickname “Junior.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2016

A small male human in a bandbox hat and many buttons operated the elevator.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck