CLOSET in a Sentence

Learn CLOSET from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

83 example sentences for CLOSET, such as:

1. Hang your overcoat in the closet.
2. Please put the coats back into the closet.
3. All morning he'd been closeted with various officials.
4. She is squirreling the stuff away in one of the closets.
5. He was in her closet, going through her dresses swiftly.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLOSET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
closet
 n.  small room or apartment, room for privacy
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  Scarlett entered her room, set the candle on the tall chest of drawers and fumbled in the dark closet for the dancing dress that needed stitching.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  And once, alter such an operation, Scarlett found her in the linen closet vomiting quietly into a towel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Her first terrified impulse was to hide in the closet, crawl under the bed, fly down the back stairs and run screaming to the swamp, anything to escape him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Opening Aunt Pitty's closet she removed a black broadcloth cloak, a thin fall garment which Pitty used only for Sunday wear, and put it on.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  The negro woman rolled frightened eyes toward the small closet that served as a pantry and Scarlett threw the door open.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  He was in her closet, going through her dresses swiftly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
7  Carol still sought to maintain privacy by undressing behind the screen of the closet door.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  Tonight, as every night, she was irritated by having to push the old plush chair out of the way before she could open the closet door.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  But Kennicott liked to have the chair in the room, and there was no place for it except in front of the closet.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  Running to a little closet under the landing of the stairs, she glanced in, and returning, told me that Queequeg's harpoon was missing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
11  You cannot put a shelf or chest of drawers in your body, and no more can you make a convenient closet of your watch-coat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
12  This done, the hatches are replaced, and hermetically closed, like a closet walled up.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up.
13  Her clothes had been taken out of her closet, thrown into the middle of the room, and trampled and torn.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
14  She gathered together stray garments that were hanging on the backs of chairs, and put each where it belonged in closet or bureau drawer.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
15  The rest had crawled into the closet where they slept, but the baby was to have a bath, the workingman explained.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
Example Sentence:
1  Please put the coats back into the closet.
2  Hoping to discover where his mom had hidden the Christmas presents, Timmy took a surreptitious peek into the master bedroom closet.
3  Hang your overcoat in the closet.
4  She is squirreling the stuff away in one of the closets.
5  All morning he'd been closeted with various officials.