drawers
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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.
"The drawers of the kitchen can actually be pulled out so more stuff can be piled on top. There's bread, and some sort of rotting cheese. The fridge has cobwebs."
From BBC
After years of misfires in my efforts to bring gifts home from my travels—plastic keychains that disappear into junk drawers, T-shirts worn only once—I’ve accepted a simple truth.
We have spent hundreds of hours since retirement going through boxes and shelves and drawers.
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