Example sentences for: box-office

How can you use “box-office” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Studios will also try to substitute for expensive star vehicles more animated films and explosive special-effects movies such as Twister and Independence Day --the biggest box-office successes last year, with grosses of more than $200 million apiece.

  • It's become a cliché that all anyone pays attention to anymore are box-office grosses.

  • But if you put out a few box-office duds, publishing books based on those duds means you pay for the failures twice.

  • The only clear measure of Guber and Peters' misjudgment is their overspending for antique furniture, yachts, slumber parties at Aspen, and the like, and a numbing succession of box-office bombs.

  • Miller describes Bob Marley's stance as "uplifting unruliness," and notes that when The Harder They Come set Jamaica's record for box-office take, it replaced The Sound of Music , "a musical that perfectly symbolizes the goody-goody moralism that, for better or worse, reggae, like rock and roll, mocked, ridiculed, and beat into cultural retreat."


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