drawers
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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There were long-out-of-date policies, receipts, family photographs, work mementos and then, undetected at the back of one of the steel grey drawers, was a brown envelope marked 'Everton: Season Ticket Sales'.
From BBC
I got started on the first layers, tugging the stifling black stockings up above my knees and then climbing into the long white drawers.
From Literature
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Opening drawers, peering into the fridge, excavating the freezer.
From Salon
That leaves the silver held above ground—in vaults, jewelry boxes, kitchen drawers and coin collections—to fulfill a chunk of the additional demand.
Joe Mulvehill, a New York doctor who visits many elderly patients in their homes, said he regularly finds drawers or shoeboxes full of pills, often sent by mail.
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