Sentence examples for set the box from inspiring English sources
Rose set the box on the counter with a satisfying clank.
I set the box on the kitchen table, opened it with a knife and folded back the newspaper inside.
The supplier shipped the chair a couple of weeks ago, and we set the box aside when it came in.
Three new releases each arrived at more than 400 cinemas, but none set the box office on fire.
Though critically adored, the film has also failed to set the box office alight as comprehensively as many had hoped.
As soon as he set the box down, sheriff's deputies ran over and photographed it before organisers could remove it.
The only film that might buck the trend in 1999 is Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, an art film many critics account the best film of the year but not one likely to set the box-office on fire.
Rueful but not exactly critical, they are perhaps the first sign of a shift from the crop of handwringing war-on-terror autopsies that frittered out for lack of mainstream support in the late noughties; even the relatively gung-ho Oscar winner The Hurt Locker failed to set the box-office alight ($17m US domestic) in 2009.
I set the boxes in the back and the phone book and hand truck on the second seat.
Unfortunately, this misfire certainly won't be setting the box office alight.
