How to Use cubicle in a Sentence

cubicle

noun
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  • The return to the cubicle has made some men dust off their tie rack.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 2 June 2021
  • But don’t be too quick to conclude things are going back to the days of 9 to 5 in the old cubicle.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Or it could be used to spy on your co-worker in the next cubicle.
    — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 17 June 2019
  • The cubicle is small and bathed in white, shadow-free light.
    — Choire Sicha, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • The once-sharp lines of what a worker can and cannot wear inside the cubicle have blurred.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Frank: David and I sit right across from each other in the same low-walled cubicle.
    — Amelia Schonbek, Curbed, 29 Dec. 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean the comeback of the cubicle, FT promises.
    — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • But his nurse, Celia Grace, emerges from the glass cubicle with a message from him.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The bleachers are folded along the back wall and a scoreboard looks out over the cubicles.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Leaders plan to use both the carrot and the stick to get workers back in their cubicles.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • For this, the entrepreneur needs to leave the cubicle, pound the pavement and talk to the customer.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But does the return to the cubicle need to be an all-or-nothing approach?
    — Brett Crosby, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Many of us spend a good chunk of each day sitting at our desks, whether in a home office or a cubicle.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The idea of being chained to a cubicle for eight-plus hours a day, five days a week now looks archaic.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Offices with cubicles spaced out a few feet apart may no longer be safe.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Butler has a cubicle on the second floor of Mount Sinai, upstairs from the chapel and across the hall from the synagogue.
    — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2020
  • And when her Fitbit nudges her to get in more steps every two hours, Ms. Bush can bust a move in her cubicle.
    — Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The media crammed around Scott Rolen’s cubicle, postgame.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2018
  • Jose Rijo had this foul-smelling goop in a Mason jar on the shelf of his cubicle at Riverfront.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2020
  • What better way to warm up a cold, sterile cubicle (or work-from-home-space) than with a new plant friend?
    — Monique Valeris, ELLE Decor, 3 May 2022
  • The patient agreed, and Hyman rolled the bulky machine into the tiny cubicle.
    — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
  • The person sitting next to you on the subway, or in a cubicle at work - everyone has felt the pain of loss, or will.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Written on a whiteboard in Whalen's cubicle, next to her to-do lists, is the phone number of an FBI agent to call in case of trouble.
    — Andrew Selsky, ajc, 4 Nov. 2022
  • His desk and chair fill most of his cubicle, which has a window that looks onto a parking lot.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
  • For a Sad Desk Salad Even the cubicle-bound can look stylish in this snappy option.
    — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • That’s quite a long way from the cubicles of Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Pryce.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The millionaire next door could very well be a co-worker sitting in the next cubicle.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Wright built Martin a three-sided desk, akin to an open cubicle.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 24 Oct. 2020
  • But how many show cars and office cubicles falling from planes?
    — Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Last month, the corporate banking consultant, 60, died while in her cubicle in a Wells Fargo office in Tempe, Ariz.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2024

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