cubbyholes
- plural of cubbyhole.
Example Sentences
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By contrast, “Untitled” from 1998 is a grid of black cubbyholes, each one containing a found treasure: a baby doll’s head, a Japanese daruma doll, a plastic apple, the head of the Red Power Ranger.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2023
Different passes allow different levels of access to halls, bars, committee rooms and cubbyholes within the Victorian-age premises.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2021
“One of the young residents there in the early 1980s said: ‘They may be hiding at the Barbizon in their little cubbyholes, but they are still here in New York.
From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2021
“It suggests a certain working of the mind in which you have 20 active cubbyholes and they are all fully lit,” Olbermann said.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2017
Next to the stairs on the left, a row of cubbyholes was filled with leather cylinders—probably ancient scroll cases.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
