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:

  • The last few years have witnessed Beanie Babies and ravers in pacifiers and pigtails and the box-office success of Antz.

  • Quality alone isn't enough to propel a film to great box-office heights, as the recent failures of Out of Sight and Rushmore demonstrate.

  • He is better "than more conventional macho stars," despite "look[ing] barely old enough to be playing anyone with hormones" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). His sex appeal--also salivated over in two best-selling biographies--is expected to garner huge box-office returns.

  • 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."

  • It will survive its box-office flop and become a classic.


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