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

Naomi then learned to play his trademark instrument, the boxlike cajón.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

The boxlike, low-slung structures have a maze of muddy alleyways between them.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022

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

In shape it is as defiantly individual as the architect himself and refuses to conform to the boxlike apartments around it.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson