How to Use bandbox in a Sentence

bandbox

noun

• The game was held in Benet’s Alumni Gym, a bandbox that dates to the 1950s.
  — Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• Go one way to the city’s showpiece harbor, the other to its bandbox of a baseball park.
  — Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2022
• The Padres were minor league, playing in a wonderful bandbox at the foot of Broadway called Lane Field.
  — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 May 2017
• The field dimensions will not allow for the bandbox some people thought would favor home runs — the foul lines will be at least 320 feet.
  — Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2017
• The bad news for any team hankering to take swings in that bandbox is, well, [gestures at the section about Verlander and Cole and Greinke].
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• But the bandbox in the northeastern Mission was only a temporary home to the Giants.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2018
• But despite playing in the desert bandbox that is Chase Field, Arizona’s offense has lagged behind.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 18 July 2017
• The Lake Placid arena was an 8,000-seat bandbox shaped like a cockfighting amphitheater.
  — Gerald Eskenazi, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
• The Red Sox finished last in home runs in the American League—while playing their home games in a bandbox with almost no foul territory.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• The changes certainly won’t turn PK Park into a bandbox but the extreme edge for pitchers, particularly in the early spring, will be lessened.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2022
• Castro also knew that the wind blowing in would transform Wrigley Field, the brick-and-ivy bandbox, into a pitchers’ paradise and turn just about any fly ball into a carnival ride for fielders.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 May 2017
• That’s entirely possible if the pitching holds up, even in the bandbox ballparks that litter that National League, and the Giants feel good about their rotation and (with good health) bullpen.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
• This ballpark will never be mistaken for a bandbox, but homers have been more prevalent in Little Havana this season than ever before.
  — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 June 2017
• When Radford played at Charleston Southern during Green’s junior year, the bandbox of a gym was packed with students, including a group of football players in the front row who were talented hecklers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Taking two of three in the Astros' boisterous bandbox would be a significant service break: Houston entered Game 4 7-0 at home this postseason, but has lost five of seven on the road.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2017
• This state’s first-ever regular season Major League Baseball game is set for Thursday, but with just a week to go workers were still assembling the ballpark, an 8,000-seat bandbox carved out of the world’s most famous cornfield.
  — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• Instead, the committee shoehorned senators, witnesses, the press and 20 members of the public into a bandbox room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• Their phenomenal power display of April has carried into May, turning Citi Field — once a tormenting wasteland of warning-track flyouts — into a bandbox.
  — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 4 May 2016
• The game was held in Benet’s Alumni Gym, a bandbox that dates to the 1950s.
  — Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• Go one way to the city’s showpiece harbor, the other to its bandbox of a baseball park.
  — Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2022
• The Padres were minor league, playing in a wonderful bandbox at the foot of Broadway called Lane Field.
  — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 May 2017
• The field dimensions will not allow for the bandbox some people thought would favor home runs — the foul lines will be at least 320 feet.
  — Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2017
• The bad news for any team hankering to take swings in that bandbox is, well, [gestures at the section about Verlander and Cole and Greinke].
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• But the bandbox in the northeastern Mission was only a temporary home to the Giants.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2018
• But despite playing in the desert bandbox that is Chase Field, Arizona’s offense has lagged behind.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 18 July 2017
• The Lake Placid arena was an 8,000-seat bandbox shaped like a cockfighting amphitheater.
  — Gerald Eskenazi, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
• The Red Sox finished last in home runs in the American League—while playing their home games in a bandbox with almost no foul territory.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• The changes certainly won’t turn PK Park into a bandbox but the extreme edge for pitchers, particularly in the early spring, will be lessened.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2022
• Castro also knew that the wind blowing in would transform Wrigley Field, the brick-and-ivy bandbox, into a pitchers’ paradise and turn just about any fly ball into a carnival ride for fielders.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 May 2017
• That’s entirely possible if the pitching holds up, even in the bandbox ballparks that litter that National League, and the Giants feel good about their rotation and (with good health) bullpen.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017

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