boxlike

Example Sentences

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Gehry contributed studios and additional structures that reflect the neighborhood’s industrial roots: corrugated metal siding, simple boxlike volumes and subtle geometric twists.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Typically, penalty-killing units employ a boxlike formation of two forwards up high to guard the point and two defensemen down low watching the dangerous areas in front of the net.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2022

The boxlike exterior of this two-story, three-bay building is quite plain, but has a simple elegance.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2021

Smith has rented the smallish boxlike space since he moved to New York in 2014 from Kansas City, Missouri, where he studied ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2019

The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides