How to Use cubbyhole in a Sentence

cubbyhole

noun

• He keeps the key in a cubbyhole in his desk.
• The car has lots of cubbyholes for small items.
• He worked in a cubbyhole under the stairs.
• The second floor has two more bedrooms, two baths, a reading room and the bunk bed cubbyhole.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2017
• The boy in orange shorts huddled with three other boys in a cubbyhole at the base of a plastic fort.
  — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
• More than a half-dozen snowboards hang in the entryway over a cubbyhole stuffed with boots.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• The sleepy lobby has an early 20th century look with a dark wood check-in desk and cubbyholes for guests’ mail.
  — Bob Rountree, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• In a cubbyhole beneath an attic sat a radio room complete with desks, where detainees tuned in nightly to the BBC.
  — Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
• Brett Gardner took a 1-2 splitter on or off the inside of the plate for strike three, returned to the dugout, slammed his bat into the helmet cubbyholes nine times and then eight times into the dugout roof.
  — Ronald Blum, courant.com, 19 July 2019
• The design elements are meant to maximize space — from cubbyhole storage under the stairs to coat hooks that fold flat when not in use.
  — Katheleen Conti, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2018
• Squatting in the shadowy recess, the brothers looked like children hiding in a cubbyhole.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
• His cubbyhole was nearly empty, save a few clothing items.
  — Sam McDowell, kansascity, 7 Sep. 2017
• Nearby (as all things are in the cozy cubbyhole of a space) 81-year-old Judy Misaka exchanges greetings with a booth of Latino regulars.
  — Patric Kuh, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Aug. 2017
• The kitchen has bar seating and playful cubbyhole-style cabinetry.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
• Police said the items were left unattended inside cubbyholes at Rockin' Jump, 950 Busch Parkway.
  — Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The chief drawback to the mid-engine layout is that the cubbyhole for the powerplant is big enough to accommodate only a four-cylinder engine.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 28 Nov. 2022
• The back of the plane has been converted into a master suite, with a double bed and cubbyhole wall niches that become closets with space for hanging storage.
  — Jennifer Fernandez, House Beautiful, 27 Dec. 2019
• Despite the restrictions, Mr. Leahy faced fierce competition and had to woo his way into his cubbyhole.
  — Kim Velsey, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2016
• Back in Atar, a collection of narrow, sandy lanes and cubbyhole shops, 26-year-old Zeinebou Mint Mohamed offers a glimpse into the girls' potential future.
  — Abigail Haworth, Marie Claire, 21 July 2011
• The El Bulli cookbook and other modernist tomes that filled the cubbyholes next to the elegant tufted banquets and the shelves behind the open kitchen were clues to his desire: to reimagine Mexican food.
  — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
• Flower stalls still blaze at the street corners and, in the side alleys of Chinatown, away from the sumptuous bazaars of Grant Avenue, ancient Chinese doze away their lives in cubbyhole shops filled with herbs and jade-green bowls.
  — Lillian Symes, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• Hanks, skeins and balls — from cloud-soft kid mohair to slightly felted, neon yellow merino wool from Uruguay to beginner-friendly, spaghetti-thick acrylics — pack the cubbyholes that hug the walls in the shop on Red Hill Avenue.
  — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 13 Sep. 2019
• Performed without an interval, the production gains visual energy from the sudden appearance of props, embedded in cubbyholes to the side of the set: a roast dinner here, a record album or two there.
  — Matt Wolf, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• But my house is tiny — not Tiny House tiny, just regular tiny — with a cubbyhole kitchen, sharp corners, precariously placed knick knacks and one very enthusiastic doberman.
  — Amanda Blum, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2017
• But the rate escalation has been a big boon for money-market funds, long an afterthought investment, cubbyholes where people used to park spare cash temporarily while awaiting deployment in more promising places.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
• Gray metal shelving, seven tiers high with yellow plastic dividers separating individual cubbyholes, fills much of the hub.
  — Rick Romell, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2017
• And Taylor and his team constructed community cubbyholes meant to spur interactivity between Spenardians and the space.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Sep. 2017

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