How to Use cupboard in a Sentence

cupboard

noun

• There was no more food left in the cupboards or the pantry.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• There isn’t an inch of room left for it in the cupboard.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• The Broncos have five picks in the first four rounds of the 2020 draft and the aim should be to keep those in the cupboard.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• Why not re-stock the cupboard and try to land a late first-round pick?
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• And, needless to say, no Cups have been added to the cupboard.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
• Stepan Dmitrievich grabbed two glasses from the cupboard and filled them to the brim.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
• The Bears have holes to fill and upgrades to make, but the cupboard is far from bare.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2022
• The good news is the Saints' cupboard is far from empty.
  — Rod Walker, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2021
• Sticks her head around the corner of the cupboard under the stairs and looks at the front door.
  — Keith Ridgway, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• Things like the weighted slide of a drawer and swing of a cupboard.
  — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2021
• The Chiefs will miss Sneed but the cupboard isn’t bare at the position.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2024
• My son reminds me to pick my clothes up off the floor and shut the kitchen cupboard doors.
  — Lyz Lenz, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2021
• Does all the worry in the cupboards of your mind belong there?
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2019
• The cupboard wasn’t bare for Kiffin in Oxford, and the streak ends here.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 1 Oct. 2020
• No more bending down to get something out from the back of the cupboard.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 17 June 2020
• No word on if the cupboard under the stairs was a selling point.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2019
• The cupboard was bare when new coach Andra Rogers came in.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
• Dear Heloise: My cupcake wrappers used to be all over the place in the cupboard.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
• No word on whether the cupboard under the stairs was a selling point.
  — Phillip Molnar, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• For a start, go to your kitchen cupboard and throw away all your pepper.
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2024
• Some slivers of cheese could be seen on a shelf, to be scattered on the floor to keep the mice out of the food cupboard.
  — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 5 July 2023
• Misha’s desktop, the deep reds of the carpet, the cupboards, the oven, the door were all variations on the same black box.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• Was it stashed at the back of some cupboard or put to use as a paperweight?
  — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• The victim was found in a cupboard in his camper van and in good health, police said.
  — Caroline Guthrie, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
• Neither of them could work in the fields, and their cupboard ran empty.
  — Amy Maxmen, Scientific American, 13 May 2021
• Have an aversion to cilantro or don’t have sumac in your cupboard?
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 11 Feb. 2023
• There’s a walk-in pantry in addition to cupboard and counter space.
  — Fox News, 30 Dec. 2020
• Acorns are then hammered into the holes, the cupboard doors left wide open.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
• The cupboards are stocked with Gien crockery and Fortnum & Mason tea bags.
  — Jo Rodgers, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Dec. 2024
• These treats are the ultimate snack to have on hand for the holidays on your coffee table, cookie jar, and in your cupboards for a late night snack to have in handy.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025