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

Renderings suggest a minimalist, boxlike form, approached via a winding path surrounded by grass, bushes and trees.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2021

It has swept through slums like Dharavi, an industrious, vibrant, endless warren of tiny alleyways and boxlike homes stacked on top of each other.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2020

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