How to Use pigeonhole in a Sentence

pigeonhole

1 of 2 noun

• As pigeonholes go, this is a rather roomy one to be in.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2017
• Pascal, for one, is ready to do away with the pigeonhole.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• And to his credit, Leitch escapes that pigeonhole … only to get trapped in another.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• Princeton had this sort of, this pigeonhole for faculty wives, they just were supposed to go to the certain parties and behave in a certain way.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2022
• Taking their name from a childhood board game, Hüsker Dü evaded pigeonholes while outshining most of their punk brethren.
  — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2017
• Now, all those necessities of travel must be poked into a narrow pigeonhole on the console, just forward of the shifter.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2023
• Low outgrew that pigeonhole but continued to earn praise.
  — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• The story is imagined by a filmmaker with a nose for elements that so often go missing among many movies put in the horror pigeonhole.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
• The blisters that made him funnel pitches into a pigeonhole for two months are finally clearing up.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 3 June 2017
• Lynne grew increasingly frustrated with her Nashville pigeonhole, and was not shy about saying so in public.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], AL.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Or, going back to our sign, everything else goes into the general partnership pigeonhole.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• Schumann created a nuanced new genre unfit for generic pigeonholes that includes aspects of opera, oratorio, chamber music and song.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• Similarly defying pigeonholes is Christopher Patton, who has optically transformed close-ups of his handwriting into a series of abstract images, made into a video loop.
  — Gary Faigin, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2017
• Despite the versatility Kleijn describes, the cello is mostly associated with Western classical music — a pigeonhole traditionally sidestepped, for whatever reason, by its violin and double bass siblings.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2022
• As pigeonholes go, this is a rather roomy one to be in.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2017
• Pascal, for one, is ready to do away with the pigeonhole.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• And to his credit, Leitch escapes that pigeonhole … only to get trapped in another.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• Princeton had this sort of, this pigeonhole for faculty wives, they just were supposed to go to the certain parties and behave in a certain way.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2022
• Taking their name from a childhood board game, Hüsker Dü evaded pigeonholes while outshining most of their punk brethren.
  — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2017
• Now, all those necessities of travel must be poked into a narrow pigeonhole on the console, just forward of the shifter.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2023
• Low outgrew that pigeonhole but continued to earn praise.
  — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• The story is imagined by a filmmaker with a nose for elements that so often go missing among many movies put in the horror pigeonhole.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
• The blisters that made him funnel pitches into a pigeonhole for two months are finally clearing up.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 3 June 2017
• Lynne grew increasingly frustrated with her Nashville pigeonhole, and was not shy about saying so in public.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], AL.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Or, going back to our sign, everything else goes into the general partnership pigeonhole.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• Schumann created a nuanced new genre unfit for generic pigeonholes that includes aspects of opera, oratorio, chamber music and song.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• Similarly defying pigeonholes is Christopher Patton, who has optically transformed close-ups of his handwriting into a series of abstract images, made into a video loop.
  — Gary Faigin, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2017
• Despite the versatility Kleijn describes, the cello is mostly associated with Western classical music — a pigeonhole traditionally sidestepped, for whatever reason, by its violin and double bass siblings.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2022

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pigeonhole

2 of 2 verb

• She likes to perform different types of music because she doesn't want to be pigeonholed.
• That could pigeonhole the type of line the Dolphins can feature.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• Why do people get pigeonholed as bad or good in the first place?
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 7 July 2017
• Both sides felt pigeonholed and stereotyped over the years.
  — Lisa Rosen, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
• The industry might try to pigeonhole her in this rap game, but she’s got a plan that’s much bigger.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• Before Aaron Nola ever got to the big leagues he was pigeonholed as a No. 3 starter — at best.
  — Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• A ton of us work from home these days, but that shouldn’t pigeonhole you to hunching over a laptop at your kitchen table.
  — Landon Pemper, Chron, 15 Mar. 2021
• The days of Dallas pigeonholing itself into a small set of coverages should be a thing of the past.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2020
• But he’s somewhat pigeonholed himself as a red zone threat and little else the past two seasons.
  — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2017
• Even Jeff himself is written in such a way that he can’t be pigeonholed as a character one way or the other.
  — Karen Han, Vox, 8 Sep. 2018
• Pumphrey, in many minds, will be pigeonholed into being a specialist in the NFL because of his size.
  — Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 2 May 2017
• The Suns and Jae Crowder have repeatedly told the media to not pigeonhole him as just a 3-point gunner.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2022
• Some may try to pigeonhole Flowers as a slot receiver at the next level because of his size.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2023
• There’s no way to really pigeonhole the region because there’s a lot of great people all over.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 21 Aug. 2019
• While pigeonholing has no place in their work, finishing each other’s sentences is a big part of the process.
  — Erika Houle, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The 33-year-old actor is working overtime to make sure that as a tall, burly Black man, he doesn’t get pigeonholed into certain roles.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2020
• He was also fed up at being pigeonholed as a Cherokee artist.
  — Jori Finkel, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
• The Swedish writer Henning Mankell did not let himself be pigeonholed.
  — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2020
• But, don’t pigeonhole people —their feelings may change over time.
  — Gwen Moran, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
• We are often pigeonholed as being hosts or servers in the industry.
  — George McCalman, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
• Those are broad strokes, of course, and no doubt there are fans who would squirm at being politically pigeonholed.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2017
• There is nothing about this book that is pigeonholed or apologetic.
  — Tyler Ford, Teen Vogue, 29 Aug. 2018
• The idea is less to pigeonhole people and more to remember that not everyone is exactly like you.
  — Business Insider, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2017
• Nor does the brand want to pigeonhole itself, as Li and Zhou look beyond China for inspiration.
  — CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
• For as long as there has been a fashion industry in the United States there have been attempts to pigeonhole it and squish it into manageable form.
  — New York Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• Park could understand that desire to not be pigeonholed.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
• My secret ambition was to break out of whatever pigeonhole that people had placed me in.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 28 July 2017
• But turns out Miami’s new coaches envision him as a pass catching, third-down back and have pigeonholed him there.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Native actors are often pigeonholed in Westerns, a genre that does not tend to reap statues during awards season.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
• Booster and Liu discuss their years of being pigeonholed by their race by casting directors.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024

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