CUPBOARD in a Sentence

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For CUPBOARD, below is one of 76 sentences:
She did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

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 Meanings and Examples of CUPBOARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cupboard
 n.  a small room or cabinet used for storage space
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  He took his meals alone, with two dogs to wait upon him, and always ate from the Crown Derby dinner service which had been in the glass cupboard in the drawing-room.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
2  Not a word passed between them as she went to the cupboard in the corner and replaced the hammer, which she had taken without asking leave; together--she unclosed her fist--with a handful of nails.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
3  "Cindy--Cindy," he growled, as she shut the cupboard door.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  Standing by the cupboard in the corner he saw her reflected in the glass.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
5  Clearing out a cupboard, I found my father's old top hat.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
6  Streatfield; a piece of traditional church furniture; a corner cupboard; or the top beam of a gate, fashioned by generations of village carpenters after some lost-in-the-mists-of-antiquity model.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
7  Well, tea-pot's in there'--he pointed to a little, drab corner cupboard; 'an' cups.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
8  She unlatched it, and almost smiled at the place he called a pantry; a long narrow white-washed slip of a cupboard.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
9  Nancy quickly brought a bottle from a cupboard, in which there were many: which, to judge from the diversity of their appearance, were filled with several kinds of liquids.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  Sikes and his companion enveloped their necks and chins in large dark shawls, and drew on their great-coats; Barney, opening a cupboard, brought forth several articles, which he hastily crammed into the pockets.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  This is only the key of a little cupboard where I keep a few odd things the boys get, my dear.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
12  Fagin laid his hand upon the bundle, and locking it in the cupboard, sat down again without speaking.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
13  He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he squeezed out the pips upon the table.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
14  When I was a youngster I have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
15  This bureau consists of a double column of drawers, with a central small cupboard between them.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Example Sentence:
1  There's a broom cupboard under the stairs.
2  A cupboard stands in the corner of the room.
3  He is seeking something to eat in the cupboard.
4  Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
5  This glass belongs in the cupboard.
6  There's plenty of cupboard space in the kitchen for all your pots and pans.
7  I found these apples mouldering in the cupboard.
8  You're a disgrace boy! Sleeping in a cupboard, eating frozen chicken and massacring a sausage roll on bed!
9  She did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
10  Then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves;.
11  She did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards.
12  Ask the carpenter to build in some cupboards.
13  The cupboards had all been completely emptied.