How to Use boxy in a Sentence

boxy

adjective

• The singer highlighted his new mustache with a lime green turtleneck under a boxy gray blazer and paired the look with classic black dress pants.
  — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
• Ayo Lawson, a freelance creative producer and director, is known for boxy shirts and dyed hair and brows.
  — Vincent Desmond, Allure, 4 May 2021
• As the clunky machine rattled to life, two boxy metal plates pressed together with a warm familiar whiff of melted plastic.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 12 May 2021
• Here, guests will gather around cocktail tables, each player given their own boxy video game controller with large plastic arcade buttons.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
• As more people joined the project, each seemed to have their own story of redemption tied to the boxy building across from Merrill Field.
  — Author: Lex Treinen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2021
• Sbarro’s car has a pleasingly boxy shape sure to appeal to anyone who has a soft spot for 1980s rally racers.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2024
• In contrast to a boxy white cube space, one of the major challenges of this museum was to find a way to exhibit works in curved galleries with plenty of openings.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• The Carrier has classic Creative styling with sharp angles and a slightly boxy look that people will either love or hate.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• The secret for me is the cut: even the brand’s shortest, most minimal offerings are just boxy enough to skim—not constrict—my hourglass shape and muscular thighs.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 3 May 2021
• Locked down at home, suddenly, our boxy, straight, and often simplistic furniture felt more like an unnecessary austere choice than a cool one.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 19 May 2021
• Demand for the boxy ute has been so strong that customer deliveries could extend into 2022, Ford has warned.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 6 June 2021
• After the shooting, the neighborhood was swarmed with fire and police vehicles, federal agents and a boxy blue truck from the San Jose bomb squad.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• Show-goers of all ages drooled over the new Ford Bronco, itching to test drive the boxy model not seen new on the market since 1996.
  — Isabel Koyama, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2021
• Large power catamarans have traditionally been boxy and slow, often just knockoffs of sailing multihulls minus the masts.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 9 May 2021
• In the image, Elsesser is wearing the jersey shorts with an elastic waistband and a coordinating boxy shirt in one of Pucci’s eye-catching prints.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 7 June 2021
• As with the iPhone 12’s boxy physique and the new iMac’s colors, the clickpad is yet another example of what’s old is new again in Apple design.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• But while Adams is content to let nature speak for itself, Chatman subverts the landscape by placing himself in the middle of it, casting a boxy silhouette inside the frame.
  — oregonlive, 10 May 2021
• Keep in Mind: Its boxy shape takes up a lot of space in your home.
  — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 May 2023
• The boxy coupé is a car that just looks cool and powerful.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
• The boxy jacket was styled with a pair of jeans that doubled as a pair of shoes.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2024
• Gaga paired the look with black nine-inch platform heels and a boxy black bag.
  — Jacorey Moon, PEOPLE.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• The boxy shape of a vehicle looms out of the murky greenness.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2022
• The slightly boxy shape paired well with the set's short mini skirt.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 18 May 2022
• Cons This has a sporty look but has the potential to look boxy.
  — Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
• Yet the taste of most BMW customers of the day would never be sated by the boxy 02.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
• The boxy coat has become the default option for many guys.
  — Daniel Varghese, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
• The jacket’s cut—neither slim nor boxy—works well on a range of body types.
  — Svati Kirsten Narula, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• The first, a boxy heather gray mini dress paired with white mary janes and a gray handbag.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 2 Mar. 2023
• It's cut in a classic fit that is slightly boxy but the sleeves are not too long.
  — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 20 Dec. 2022
• When the boxy shape made a return to the runways a few years ago, the pointy edges took some getting used to.
  — Vogue, 30 June 2021

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025