How to Use foldout in a Sentence

foldout

noun
  • The book includes special maps in the form of foldouts.
  • The book includes foldout maps.
  • It can be set up while on the go with a quick two-step foldout process.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In the dirt with the foldout tables under the tent fabric.
    Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 13 Apr. 2013
  • Marjorie sat on her bed — a mattress atop a foldout couch — and talked on the phone to a friend.
    Andy Newman, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2019
  • To save money, Schumer slept in the living room, on a foldout couch.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • There’s a foldout in the living room sofa, isn’t there?
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
  • The student and the teacher faced each other on plain black foldout chairs.
    Sarah Grant, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Then there are MagSafe charging stands, trays, and foldout stations.
    John Thompson, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Edd Gumban sleeps on a foldout bed in an office in central Manila.
    Time, 15 Mar. 2021
  • He was ticked off enough to stick an umbrella across his foldout meal tray to keep from any more reclining going on.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2020
  • So the White House decided to forgo the main doorway in favor of a smaller exit in the belly of the aircraft equipped with its own foldout stairs.
    Mark Landler and Jane Perlez, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2016
  • Bigger and more intricate than Hubble, Webb will be a goner if its foldout mirror and sunshield snarl.
    Fox News, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Last weekend, Oksana Stus laid a carton of eggs onto a foldout table.
    Elissa Miolene, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The lower deck is made up of a beach club area with a gym and an open garden space that can be transformed into a spacious sunbathing lounge via foldout terraces on either side.
    Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 18 May 2022
  • The three big foldout posters are even chic enough for design snobs to consider hanging on a nursery wall, once the matching stickers have been (carefully) stuck.
    Catherine Hong, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • By lunchtime the next day, there were thousands of sandwiches made by assembly line at a long foldout cafeteria table.
    Jane Black, Smithsonian, 19 Nov. 2019
  • At the door, I’m caught in a small bottleneck of people standing at a foldout table covered with printouts of tonight’s agenda and other flyers.
    Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 28 July 2021
  • Beaty, sitting at a foldout table in the corner of Iowa State’s weight room, wasn’t focused much on hypotheticals and outlooks.
    Jesse Newell, kansascity, 14 Oct. 2017
  • The duo perched on cushions with a foldout table topped with bottles of water, Lysol sprays and several tabletlike bingo devices, each playing up to 66 games at once.
    René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 26 May 2020
  • The foldout included with the album showcased a panorama of the entire intersection.
    Justine Browning, EW.com, 18 July 2022
  • Vedder and Caden shared a foldout couch, their fourth bed since the fire began, only to be awakened by mandatory evacuation alerts and warnings about the Thomas Fire burning west in the hills.
    Paul Vercammen, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Bigger, 100 times more powerful, and also more intricate than Hubble, Webb will be a goner if its foldout mirror and sunshield snarl.
    Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Dec. 2021
  • These include a foldout, three-dimensional rendition of a tunnel under the Thames from 1830.
    Vulture, 26 May 2023
  • There is an ominous and poetic exploration of the giant squid that doesn’t even reveal the animal until a dramatic foldout on the final page.
    Amanda Baker, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Barbie’s first Dreamhouse, released in 1962, was a cardboard foldout apartment, with modern furniture and a single bed.
    Alexandra Lange, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Some, like Hugh, were crying on their beds, far from the affected area, while others were on foldout sofas, in sleeping bags, in the back seats of cars, or on cots laid out like circuitry in public-school gymnasiums.
    David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Jay Anna Brown sat at the back behind a foldout table displaying stacks of campaign literature.
    Priscella Vegastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • Must-have luxury items include reclining rear seats with jet-style foldout tray tables, a 55-inch pillar-to-pillar HD display and a total of five high-definition screens.
    Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Jaffee left his mark on popular culture with the creation of the Mad Fold-In, a satirical response to Playboy's foldouts, in which one image with a question folds in to become another image with an answer.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023

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