How to Use drawer in a Sentence

drawer

noun

• There are some pens in my desk drawer.
• He stood there in only his drawers.
• At the bottom of the stove was a drawer that held pots and pans.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2023
• Just press and hold the icon in the app drawer and tap Uninstall.
  — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
• The gun’s case was in a dresser drawer, but not the gun.
  — cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
• Measure the height of your drawer and cut pieces of pipe to size.
  — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022
• The drawer in this unit is almost as large as the whole unit.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2022
• Lea’s Olympic medals, Erik said with a laugh, are in a sock drawer.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023
• The easy-to-empty waste drawer holds a week’s worth of waste per cat.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• Now, the golf ball lives in a drawer, a token from a wild night.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
• Close the drawer and leave it there (not in your pocket).
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2022
• His cell phone is put away in a drawer, like a pair of dirty socks.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022
• If the stove is the heart of the Southern kitchen, well the junk drawer is the hidden secret.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2024
• Soon enough, tank tops will be pushed to the back of the drawer as sweaters take center stage.
  — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
• One of the highlights for her was the brass pull-out drawers with the linen lining.
  — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 22 Mar. 2023
• Things like the weighted slide of a drawer and swing of a cupboard.
  — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2021
• Lucia dug around in the drawers and pulled out a big black T-shirt.
  — Ruby Opalka, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2024
• There’s a tiny little drawer on the side for small tchotchkes.
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 13 July 2022
• Use a toothbrush that is ready to be retired to the craft drawer.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2024
• An open drawer in the Wood home kitchen where a filet knife, thought to be the murder weapon, was kept.
  — CBS News, 12 Nov. 2022
• Jenkins said the boy pulled out a dresser drawer and stepped up to reach the purse.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• At the end of her work day, Lisa retrieved her phone from a desk drawer and turned it on.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
• Even more potent is putting the credit card away in a drawer or in a block of ice for the week.
  — Bernadette Joy, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
• And spring is the perfect time to restock your undies drawer.
  — Emilia Benton, womenshealthmag.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The robber quickly grabbed one drawer and cash from the ground, then ran out of the Starbucks, the video shows.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 22 Mar. 2022
• Take the time to open all drawers and doors to confirm the slides and hinges work properly.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2024
• Be sure not to let your old gadgets just fill up a junk drawer.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• Fold the legs & arms until the figure fits neat as a book of matches in a drawer.
  — Terrance Hayes, The New York Review of Books, 29 June 2023
• The same goes for hardware: No longer does the faucet have to match the drawer pulls, say designers.
  — Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 6 Mar. 2025
• Three years later, that gift card is gathering dust in a drawer full of gift cards.
  — Soni Basi, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025

Last Updated: 24 Mar 2025