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Example sentences for "cubbyhole"

Lexicographically close words:
cuarto; cuartos; cuatro; cub; cubby; cube; cubeb; cubebs; cubed; cubes
  1. His first visit there was to a small room in the basement--a dark cubbyhole next to the coal room.

  2. Dundee led the way across the basement to a cubbyhole next to the coal room, entered and came out with a narrow, deep drawer of ebony inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

  3. He was lucky enough to find the fingerprint expert, Carraway, in his cubbyhole of an office, his desk almost crowded out by immense filing cabinets.

  4. Only by miraculous compression of ribs, handles, and fabrics was space contrived in the basement cubbyhole for Annie Oombrella to squeeze in.

  5. But I think it was the fact that he who stayed at home when others went forward had set a picture of Albert of Belgium in the window of his cubbyhole that most exasperated us against him.

  6. The basement cubbyhole remained vacant, with only the picture of Albert of the Kingdom of Sorrows in the window as a memento.

  7. The shower cabinet was a cubbyhole with handgrips on all four sides and straps into which one could slip his feet.

  8. He was only half-awake when he arrived, and he didn't bother to rouse himself completely when he was shown to a cubbyhole in the officers' barracks.

  9. A moment later the patrolman loomed up outside the cubbyhole door, the woman in tow.

  10. Chenowich, the young plain-clothes man recently transferred to Homicide from Robbery Detail, stopped at Martin Kirk's cubbyhole and slid an evening paper across the battered brown linoleum top of the Lieutenant's desk.

  11. In the office beyond the partition of his cubbyhole a woman was sobbing.

  12. Murgatroyd fled in panic to his cubbyhole and cowered in its farthest corner.

  13. Murgatroyd headed straight for his cubbyhole and crawled into it.

  14. But, as Pere Bru had just been found dead in his cubbyhole under the staircase, the landlord had allowed her to turn into it.

  15. Gervaise felt the most pity for Pere Bru in his cubbyhole under the staircase where he hibernated.

  16. So Calhoun brooded, while Murgatroyd presently yawned and climbed to his cubbyhole and curled up to sleep with his furry tail carefully adjusted over his nose.

  17. Murgatroyd the tormal came crawling out of the small cubbyhole which was his own.

  18. Murgatroyd had fled to his cubbyhole to escape it.

  19. I pulled myself away from the corridor to hydroponics, started for observation, and then went on into the cubbyhole they gave me for a cabin.

  20. I found him in Bullard's little cubbyhole of a cabin.

  21. Thus it was arranged and Bob, deserting his friends and relatives for the time being, took up his quarters in the little cubbyhole of a room, adjoining that which harbored Jolly Bill and his wooden leg.

  22. There's a little cubbyhole of a room next to his," Mr. Beel had said when Bob broached his new tactics.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cubbyhole" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alcove; asylum; bay; cache; concealment; corner; cove; cover; covert; cranny; cubbyhole; cubicle; den; dugout; foxhole; hideout; hiding; hole; lair; niche; nook; pigeonhole; pinch; playhouse; recess; refuge; retreat; sanctuary; snuggery; stash