CUPBOARD in a Sentence
Learn CUPBOARD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
76 example sentences for CUPBOARD, such as:
1. This glass belongs in the cupboard.
2. There's a broom cupboard under the stairs.
3. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
4. A cupboard stands in the corner of the room.
5. Ask the carpenter to build in some cupboards.
2. There's a broom cupboard under the stairs.
3. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
4. A cupboard stands in the corner of the room.
5. Ask the carpenter to build in some cupboards.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CUPBOARD
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cupboard
n. a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1 He took his meals alone, with two dogs to wait upon him, and always ate from the Crown Derby dinner service which had been in the glass cupboard in the drawing-room.
2 Not a word passed between them as she went to the cupboard in the corner and replaced the hammer, which she had taken without asking leave; together--she unclosed her fist--with a handful of nails.
3 "Cindy--Cindy," he growled, as she shut the cupboard door.
4 Standing by the cupboard in the corner he saw her reflected in the glass.
5 Clearing out a cupboard, I found my father's old top hat.
6 Streatfield; a piece of traditional church furniture; a corner cupboard; or the top beam of a gate, fashioned by generations of village carpenters after some lost-in-the-mists-of-antiquity model.
7 Well, tea-pot's in there'--he pointed to a little, drab corner cupboard; 'an' cups.
8 She unlatched it, and almost smiled at the place he called a pantry; a long narrow white-washed slip of a cupboard.
9 Nancy quickly brought a bottle from a cupboard, in which there were many: which, to judge from the diversity of their appearance, were filled with several kinds of liquids.
10 Sikes and his companion enveloped their necks and chins in large dark shawls, and drew on their great-coats; Barney, opening a cupboard, brought forth several articles, which he hastily crammed into the pockets.
11 This is only the key of a little cupboard where I keep a few odd things the boys get, my dear.
12 Fagin laid his hand upon the bundle, and locking it in the cupboard, sat down again without speaking.
13 He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he squeezed out the pips upon the table.
14 When I was a youngster I have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
15 This bureau consists of a double column of drawers, with a central small cupboard between them.
Example Sentence:
1 There's a broom cupboard under the stairs.
2 A cupboard stands in the corner of the room.
3 He is seeking something to eat in the cupboard.
4 Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
5 This glass belongs in the cupboard.
6 There's plenty of cupboard space in the kitchen for all your pots and pans.
7 I found these apples mouldering in the cupboard.
8 You're a disgrace boy! Sleeping in a cupboard, eating frozen chicken and massacring a sausage roll on bed!
9 She did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
10 Then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves;.
11 She did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards.
12 Ask the carpenter to build in some cupboards.
13 The cupboards had all been completely emptied.