boxy
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- boxiness noun
Etymology
Origin of boxy
Example Sentences
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No company logo was visible on the vast boxy exterior of the centre, and visitors were only admitted after careful security checks.
From Barron's
The idea: write off at least a portion of the cost of the boxy luxury vehicle, which can retail for nearly $200,000.
From MarketWatch
From the Coldwater site and another site, named Timberline, directly on the mountain, Johnston peered through a big, boxy instrument called a correlation spectrometer.
From Literature
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The apartment building they’d hit was like a thousand others Natalie had seen in Miami—rectangular and boxy and three stories tall.
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It was massive in appearance, resembling the boxy "Transformers" characters from the toys and movies.
From Barron's
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