Sentence examples for box them in from inspiring English sources

You box them in so that they go wrong themselves.

"They're really going to box them in," said Daniel Gladstone, the driver of the concrete truck.

"Ethnic" or "multicultural" artists can shed those tiresome descriptions that box them in.

"All that did was to box them in and give heart to the most extreme Sinhalese voices," he said.

It had a tendency to bruise, which meant that, rather than shipping bananas directly on the stalk, Standard Fruit had to box them in elaborate new packing houses.

As they balance these competing imperatives, Republicans said they planned to move deliberately at first and avoid declarations that could box them in.

On the surface, it's ha ha ha – oh, the president really got them there, the president really gave it to them in that speech, the president really boxed them in!

"We've boxed them in" with roads, he said.

The same dividers that separated the horses swung behind their rumps, boxing them in.

Then, another police car pulled behind the CNN crew, boxing them in.

"It boxes them in," said Joan Mulhern, legislative counsel for the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund.