In the following examples each box represents a 'bar' of music (the specific time signature is not relevant).

A box with eight prisms represent the elements of or:

The box represents the constraints of being fictional characters unable to make any real choices.

Based on what Daggit had sold his team, the boxes represented several million dollars' worth of drugs.

Each box represents a booth at the convention; the lines represent the communication links between them.

The box, she said, represented the truck he would park in front of the building because "it was an easy target."

The boxes represented how these Japanese daughters were locked into certain requirements.

The boxes with a thin border represent the spouses of the descendants.

The box represents the confinement of the individual within set limits.

The yellow boxes represent days during which gold medal finals for a sport are held.