How to Use box office in a Sentence

box office

noun
Definition of box officenext
Synonyms for box officenext
  • The box office will open at 10:00 a.m.
  • The Eras Tour movie broke box office records for a concert film.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
  • But the film was a box office success, and has since had a sequel.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The first film made over $680 million at the global box office and has been streamed for over 1 billion hours on Disney+.
    — Lindsey Bahr, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • As black-and-gold jerseys mixed in with the overflow from the venue’s box office, one of the football guys asked what the line was for, and a patron told him.
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Booming box office There were some bright spots, though.
    — Laura He, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Her are 11 Sundance films tat stood out and could become box office gold.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Fighter has grossed over $43 million in 30 days at the global box office.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Released at the end of July, the movie has made more than 10 times its $4.5 million budget at the global box office.
    — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
  • YouTube And the connection is real, with horror movies proving to be box office gold over the years.
    — Brianna Scott, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The Brat Pack — the group of young stars that dominated the ’80s box office — is getting the doc treatment from one of its own memebers.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But the macro picture of the 2023 box office presents a more complicated picture.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Those are two movies with clear box office potential, and those are two movies that got blown out of the water by a group of cartoon pups.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The rest of the weekend’s box office got a bit lost in Swift’s lavender haze, though there are a few movies that are poised to clear the $50 million threshold this weekend.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Seats will be located next to each other and the seat locations will be revealed the day of show when picked up at the venue box office.
    — Jasmine Li, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The queue is one of the longest, old-fashioned box office lines in the world, the sports equivalent to the infamous Studio 54 line, but a lot older.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • Horror is the star of the fall box office so far, led by The Nun II, which debuted at $32.6 million several weeks ago.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The Flash will incur a sizable loss after earning less than $268 million to date at the global box office.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
  • Sweeney said she is not concerned by the recent slump in box office success for superhero films.
    — cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Taylor Swift can add box office record holder to her list of accolades.
    — Angela Yang, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Jonathan Lynn and the cast always chalked up the lackluster box office performance to the gimmick of the multiple endings.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Chow declined to rise to the bait when questioned about the currently depressed state of the Korean box office and the rise of streaming services.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Disney’s Marvel films have grossed $23 billion at the global box office.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The first film, released by Disney, was a critical and box office hit with $745 million at the worldwide box office.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 21 July 2023
  • And while early reviews are predictably mixed, the film’s box office debut looks promising.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Swift’s Eras concert film also reached a milestone over the weekend by crossing $200 million of sales at the global box office.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
  • At this rate, the big-budget sequel will end its box office run as the lowest-grossing MCU movie in history — by a landslide.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Tickets start at $35 and are available at Ticketmaster and the Flagstar Strand Theatre box office.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2024
  • And now that Nintendo has gotten a taste of that juicy box office, a Legend of Zelda movie was inevitable anyway.
    — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Simply put, Messi is box office, and right now, so is soccer in America.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023

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