PANTRY in a Sentence

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For PANTRY, below is one of 36 sentences:
I was afraid to sleep, even if I had been inclined, for I knew that at the first faint dawn of morning I must rob the pantry.

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 Meanings and Examples of PANTRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pantry
 n.  apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  I took him into the pantry where he looked a little reproachfully at the Finn.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  Crossing the porch where we had dined that June night three months before I came to a small rectangle of light which I guessed was the pantry window.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  I was afraid to sleep, even if I had been inclined, for I knew that at the first faint dawn of morning I must rob the pantry.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  Among this good company I should have felt myself, even if I hadn't robbed the pantry, in a false position.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
5  I heard her steps proceed to the pantry.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
6  I showed him over the establishment, not omitting the pantry, with no little pride, and he commended it highly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
7  There was a gridiron in the pantry, on which my morning rasher of bacon was cooked.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
8  He took that off, too, when it was done with; cleared the table; piled everything on the dumb-waiter; gave us our wine-glasses; and, of his own accord, wheeled the dumb-waiter into the pantry.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
9  Among the rest, she converted the pantry into a dressing-room for me; and purchased and embellished a bedstead for my occupation, which looked as like a bookcase in the daytime as a bedstead could.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER
10  On the left was a door, no doubt the pantry door.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
11  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
12  He went to the pantry, bringing food: bread and butter and pressed tongue.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
13  He tramped away to the pantry for the food.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  Mrs. Yeobright, for want of room in the larger apartment, placed a bench for the mummers halfway through the pantry door, which opened from the sitting-room.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
15  The mummers, as has been stated, were seated on a bench, one end of which extended into the small apartment, or pantry, for want of space in the outer room.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
Example Sentence:
1  No food is left in the pantry except some bread.
2  Looking in the pantry, we admired the plenitude of fruits and pickles we had preserved during the summer.