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:

  • Looking at Saturday's line-up, it's clear the networks are betting that, in your post-holiday stupor, you won't notice the stunning array of box-office bowsers they're running: Rudy (Fox, 8 PM), Richie Rich (NBC, 8 PM), Medicine Man (TBS, 8: 05), Poison Ivy (UPN, 8 PM), Corrina, Corrina (TNT, 8 PM), Dunston Checks In (Family Channel, 8 PM).

  • 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."

  • 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.

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

  • First, it seemed to assume that box-office position was some subjective judgment.


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