Example Sentences

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They no longer had to adhere to the narratives that had pigeonholed them since birth.

From New York Times • May 10, 2021

“I had pigeonholed him as this punky kid from Detroit who wanted to be a rocker,” John Boylan said Monday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2016

I faced a bitter and lonely struggle to prove to the experts that Nihal did have language locked away inside him, fully aware that they had pigeonholed me in the foolish and doting mother category.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2013

He had pigeonholed one bill, introduced one of his own which nominally increased the number of admissions but kept all the unworkable restrictions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Congress had pigeonholed his bill to finance such a venture.

From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)