How to Use cubbyhole in a Sentence

cubbyhole

noun
  • He keeps the key in a cubbyhole in his desk.
  • The car has lots of cubbyholes for small items.
  • He worked in a cubbyhole under the stairs.
  • More than a half-dozen snowboards hang in the entryway over a cubbyhole stuffed with boots.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The second floor has two more bedrooms, two baths, a reading room and the bunk bed cubbyhole.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2017
  • The boy in orange shorts huddled with three other boys in a cubbyhole at the base of a plastic fort.
    — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The captain instead had to remain up on the topside in the cubbyhole of his pilot house.
    — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The kitchen has bar seating and playful cubbyhole-style cabinetry.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Once removed from their cubbyhole, the bits can be inserted in one of two hexagonal driver holes.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 17 July 2024
  • There are hanging plastic dividers that catch the light as people move them aside to find hidden cubbyholes and tunnels.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The sleepy lobby has an early 20th century look with a dark wood check-in desk and cubbyholes for guests’ mail.
    — Bob Rountree, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • Squatting in the shadowy recess, the brothers looked like children hiding in a cubbyhole.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • That's good news considering what an eensy cubbyhole was squeezed into the old Cabrio.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 27 July 2023
  • The design elements are meant to maximize space — from cubbyhole storage under the stairs to coat hooks that fold flat when not in use.
    — Katheleen Conti, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2018
  • Team principals and engineers were lined up on stools in their little cubbyholes crowding around laptops.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2024
  • These narrow, open cubbyholes are a kitchen cabinet trend that serves as display space for cookbooks and favorite tools, and handy storage for spices.
    — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 May 2023
  • How sweet the letters from Gita had been, arriving in his grad-school cubbyhole at Brooklyn Poly!
    — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The back of the plane has been converted into a master suite, with a double bed and cubbyhole wall niches that become closets with space for hanging storage.
    — Jennifer Fernandez, House Beautiful, 27 Dec. 2019
  • In a cubbyhole beneath an attic sat a radio room complete with desks, where detainees tuned in nightly to the BBC.
    — Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The chief drawback to the mid-engine layout is that the cubbyhole for the powerplant is big enough to accommodate only a four-cylinder engine.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The Golf's power windows can all be run fully down for open airiness, or up to create, along with the windshield, a flying cubbyhole against the elements.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 27 July 2023
  • The storage is also amazing—an entire section of the desk is dedicated to shelving, including cubbyhole storage at the top, and there’s a pencil drawer and two open shelves on the next side.
    — Rachel Dube, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2023
  • Brett Gardner took a 1-2 splitter on or off the inside of the plate for strike three, returned to the dugout, slammed his bat into the helmet cubbyholes nine times and then eight times into the dugout roof.
    — Ronald Blum, courant.com, 19 July 2019
  • Gray metal shelving, seven tiers high with yellow plastic dividers separating individual cubbyholes, fills much of the hub.
    — Rick Romell, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Police said the items were left unattended inside cubbyholes at Rockin' Jump, 950 Busch Parkway.
    — Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • But the rate escalation has been a big boon for money-market funds, long an afterthought investment, cubbyholes where people used to park spare cash temporarily while awaiting deployment in more promising places.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Some new additions included cubbyholes for each employee — so no one had to drag home their coffee mug, family photo or ergonomic keyboard each night — small conference rooms workers can reserve and private phone rooms.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
  • Back in Atar, a collection of narrow, sandy lanes and cubbyhole shops, 26-year-old Zeinebou Mint Mohamed offers a glimpse into the girls' potential future.
    — Abigail Haworth, Marie Claire, 21 July 2011
  • And Taylor and his team constructed community cubbyholes meant to spur interactivity between Spenardians and the space.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Flower stalls still blaze at the street corners and, in the side alleys of Chinatown, away from the sumptuous bazaars of Grant Avenue, ancient Chinese doze away their lives in cubbyhole shops filled with herbs and jade-green bowls.
    — Lillian Symes, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019

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