boxed in

ADJECTIVE
  1. enclosed in or as if in a box
    a confining boxed-in space
    felt boxed in by the traffic
    boxed cigars
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How To Use boxed in In A Sentence

  • He feels boxed in at work and wants greater freedom to develop his ideas.
  • It can not be boxed into some neatly defined category as economics or sociology or politics or history.
  • Pulling pre-cut thorn bushes and branches across the cave entrance, he fashioned a kraal to keep his sheep safely hidden and boxed in the cave.
  • The problem with that idea, though, is that the administration is boxed in, politically and rhetorically.
  • One of the runners got boxed in on the final bend.
  • As a result he got away from the starting light reasonably well, but then got boxed in at Old Hall corner and ended up in 26th place after the first lap.
  • Procedures relating to topics within the chapter are boxed in and numbered so that the reader can quickly recognize them.
  • Her coach told her she lost some time by getting boxed in, time she could recover in her next race.
  • His father, a merchant seaman, had boxed in the navy while his mother swam competitively. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Chancellor is boxed in by inflation targets and sterling.
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