RECEPTACLE in a Sentence

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For RECEPTACLE, below is one of 15 sentences:
It would seem that the floor was never washed, and that the room was used as a receptacle for every conceivable kind of furniture.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECEPTACLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
receptacle
 n.  container; reservoir; an object or space used to contain something
Classic Sentence:
1  First came a portmanteau of white leather whose raggedness indicated that the receptacle had made several previous journeys.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  In passing, I may say that I feel certain that at least SOME of my readers will be curious to know the contents and the internal arrangements of that receptacle.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
3  It would seem that the floor was never washed, and that the room was used as a receptacle for every conceivable kind of furniture.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
4  The idea of a drink from such a receptacle was too much for Chichikov, so he excused himself on the ground that he had just had luncheon.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
5  Planting himself before his dispatch-box, he rubbed his hands with a satisfaction worthy of an incorruptible rural magistrate when adjourning for luncheon; after which he extracted from the receptacle a bundle of papers.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
6  Everything went into the receptacle just as it came to hand, since his one object was to obviate any possible delay in the morning's departure.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
7  Thus, in time, his gains attained the amount of five roubles; whereupon he made himself a purse and then started to fill a second receptacle of the kind.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
8  "Drink this, Father," she said, pushing the whisky in its strange receptacle into his hand and taking the second gourd of water from Pork.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  This place has previously been mentioned as the receptacle for the blanket-pieces, when stript and hoisted from the whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
10  He shoveled black sand into an iron receptacle and pounded it tight and set it aside to harden; then it would be taken out, and molten iron poured into it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
11  The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
12  originally brought in such a receptacle.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern.
13  From this tin receptacle Jo produced another manuscript, and putting both in her pocket, crept quietly downstairs, leaving her friends to nibble on her pens and taste her ink.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
14  The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  Confused about the multitudes of plug, connector and receptacle combinations?