Boxing Day
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Boxing Day
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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On Christmas Eve 2022, her asked for £150 for a car tyre, telling her if she did not help him he wouldn't visit her on Boxing Day.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
Much of Aceh already had to be reconstructed with international assistance after 2004's Boxing Day tsunami, which killed more than 170,000 people in the province alone.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
"I cannot begin to describe the anguish and trauma of the events of Boxing Day 2025," he said in a tribute released by Gloucestershire Constabulary.
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026
A man whose wife and two children died in a Boxing Day fire has paid tribute to his "wonderful family".
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026
They do not look in the historic district, where the chairman of Ashoke’s department lives, in an eighteenth-century mansion to which he and Ashima and Gogol are invited once a year for Boxing Day tea.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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