How to Use cubicle in a Sentence

cubicle

noun
  • My boys have a little area between their two rooms that’s a little cubicle.
    Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 31 July 2018
  • There also is a small office cubicle and a half bathroom.
    Joan Walden, courant.com, 21 June 2018
  • Plenty of designers have tried their hand at updating the cubicle for the modern age.
    Liz Stinson, Curbed, 22 Oct. 2018
  • The dormitories have been renovated to cubicles with beds, dressers and art on the walls.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2024
  • At our previous location, there were cubicle walls that absorbed some of the sound, but in our current space there is nowhere to hide.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2018
  • For a few days in late July, a handful of lucky cubicle dwellers in Madison will become free birds.
    Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
  • Most of us can go to a movie theater, the mall, the grocery store, our cubicle offices and the doctor without really thinking of all the mass shootings that happened there.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
  • The Button-Up Shirt The trusty base layer of today’s cubicle armor, often in safe shades of blue, white and pink.
    Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 24 July 2018
  • Take inspiration from these insanely cute cubicles, or try some of these desk DIYs to help your space feel a little less basic.
    Sienna Fantozzi, House Beautiful, 23 Aug. 2018
  • The return to the cubicle has made some men dust off their tie rack.
    Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 2 June 2021
  • But don’t be too quick to conclude things are going back to the days of 9 to 5 in the old cubicle.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Or it could be used to spy on your co-worker in the next cubicle.
    Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 17 June 2019
  • The cubicle is small and bathed in white, shadow-free light.
    Choire Sicha, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • The once-sharp lines of what a worker can and cannot wear inside the cubicle have blurred.
    Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Frank: David and I sit right across from each other in the same low-walled cubicle.
    Amelia Schonbek, Curbed, 29 Dec. 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean the comeback of the cubicle, FT promises.
    Byjane Thier, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • But his nurse, Celia Grace, emerges from the glass cubicle with a message from him.
    Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The bleachers are folded along the back wall and a scoreboard looks out over the cubicles.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Leaders plan to use both the carrot and the stick to get workers back in their cubicles.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • For this, the entrepreneur needs to leave the cubicle, pound the pavement and talk to the customer.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But does the return to the cubicle need to be an all-or-nothing approach?
    Brett Crosby, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Many of us spend a good chunk of each day sitting at our desks, whether in a home office or a cubicle.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The idea of being chained to a cubicle for eight-plus hours a day, five days a week now looks archaic.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Offices with cubicles spaced out a few feet apart may no longer be safe.
    Eric Heisig, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Butler has a cubicle on the second floor of Mount Sinai, upstairs from the chapel and across the hall from the synagogue.
    Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2020
  • And when her Fitbit nudges her to get in more steps every two hours, Ms. Bush can bust a move in her cubicle.
    Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Jose Rijo had this foul-smelling goop in a Mason jar on the shelf of his cubicle at Riverfront.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2020
  • What better way to warm up a cold, sterile cubicle (or work-from-home-space) than with a new plant friend?
    Monique Valeris, ELLE Decor, 3 May 2022
  • The patient agreed, and Hyman rolled the bulky machine into the tiny cubicle.
    New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Indeed, the small cubicle smelled like a mushroom farm, had a calcified door, and would have fit right in at a campground.
    Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024

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