How to Use big-box in a Sentence

big-box

adjective
  • The three big-box chains will all take a hit from the global trade war.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
  • Yet the big-box retailer hasn’t shared a launch date.
    — Gabrielle Fonrouge,melissa Repko, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Even if that made their still rich big-box store-owner former-friends mad.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • That’s different from Dick’s big-box play.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, nary a fast-food chain nor big-box store mars this historic postcard idyll.
    — Staff Author Published, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
  • At a time when big-box craft stores are struggling to stay afloat and are closing their doors left and right.
    — Courtney Lane, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2025
  • In other words, discounts to big-box chains must be available to mom-and-pop stores, too.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
  • The roughly 1-acre parcels have a big-box store behind it, the survey shows.
    — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Sam Walton was not the first in big-box retailing.
    — Dileep Rao, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • And more of us are going to big-box stores like Walmart to buy groceries.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The big-box stores can offer more convenience and lower prices.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2024
  • Once again, the firm leads its big-box peers in customer satisfaction.
    — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The summer’s best family film isn’t from a big-box studio.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Rental machines are available at big-box retailers and home stores.
    — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Those trends may not bode well for the big-box and mall retailers that have yet to report their earnings.
    — Amelia Lucas,melissa Repko,gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Measles popped up in healthcare settings, big-box stores, restaurants and youth sporting events.
    — Devi Shastri, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
  • Measles popped up in healthcare settings, big-box stores and restaurants, and youth sporting events.
    — Devi Shastri, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • Esnard was expanding his contracts with big-box stores.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Of course, as a small operation, Echter’s can’t charge the low prices that big-box stores can.
    — Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 7 July 2025
  • Macy’s has it all on sale, as is tradition at the big-box retailer this time of year.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 31 Aug. 2024
  • The big-box retailer signed checks for three-fourths of the high-school comedy’s leads to reprise their roles.
    — Vulture, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The other four lost their big-box cameras at a time when the city was more willing to move them to other hot spots.
    — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The installers were jobbers who worked for one of the big-box retailers.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2025
  • The full-line big-box stores average 12,000 square feet.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Malls have been rapidly losing customers to online shopping and big-box stores.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 26 July 2023
  • The big-box retailer has struggled with a laundry list of challenges.
    — Melissa Repko, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
  • This zone was filled with vanities, tubs, and sinks, with prices that would beat out your typical big-box home store.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Look for this gardening gem at nurseries, home-and-garden centers, and big-box stores.
    — Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
  • Walmart — The big-box retailer slipped more than 2%.
    — Brian Evans, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Walmart — The big-box retailer slipped more than 4%.
    — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025

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