pigeonholes
- present tense form of pigeonhole (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Somewhere along the way if you're a young actor coming up, you can bet there are pigeonholes for everyone.
From Salon • Aug. 24, 2024
Everything that’s wrong with this place is the way we put everyone in pigeonholes.
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2020
Schumann created a nuanced new genre unfit for generic pigeonholes that includes aspects of opera, oratorio, chamber music and song.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2018
Can't it be about something bigger - anger at critics, the guy who grabbed her then sued her, the world in general that pigeonholes women?
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017
Amy’s chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less antique.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
