How to Use cupboard in a Sentence

cupboard

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  • The door was in an iron cupboard prepared for an assault of this nature, so no harm was done beyond to any researchers.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2018
  • SnackWell’s cookies, an icon of this age, filled up the cupboards of dieting aunts.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Being a head coach is less about actual coaching and more about keeping a cupboard full of plates spinning.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The cupboard is far from bare and nearly every position on this unit has a backup who has seen valuable in-game time.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2018
  • My one lasting imposition on the helpless cupboards and mantels of my pals is porcelain.
    — Sally Singer, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Locals found them a house, filled the cupboards with food and—to the family’s delight—laid out prayer mats and a copy of the Koran.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • About 3 to 6 months in your cupboard if it is covered tightly, kept away from heat, and away from sunlight, says Lanuzza.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Tickets for the special event go on sale August 3, giving you just enough time to search the cupboard under the stairs for some extra change for snacks.
    — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 5 Aug. 2018
  • Poor Principal Featherhead is never seen alive again, and days later his blue-lipped corpse is found stuffed into a cupboard in the hallway.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Nov. 2018
  • Vandals poured paint over school supplies, threw paint on walls and cupboards, and, among other things, poured thousands of beads in one room, took bags of chips and soda from one room and ate and drank them in another room.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 11 July 2018
  • Spice up their cupboard with Rebekah Miles’s ceramic cups or Botticelli’s pretty plate.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2018
  • The pharmacist said nothing, now pulling imaginary pill bottles out of an empty metal cupboard Violet had already ransacked.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 July 2018
  • Inside both series are a kitchen (including a sink, stove, fridge, and cupboard), bathroom (with a toilet, shower, and sink), a bistro table, and a multi-purpose space for hanging out and sleeping.
    — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 6 July 2018
  • Unlike the Marie Kondo method, which is a total home/life makeover project if done to the letter, proponents of lagom suggest taking things slowly, like tackling just one cupboard at a time.
    — Rachel Jacoby Zoldan, SELF, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Another trick: Store garlic under an unglazed clay flower pot in a cupboard, creating a small humidor without cutting off air circulation, which can lead to rot.
    — Jean Nick, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2018
  • The company also worked with Plain English Design, iconic British cupboard makers, to create a bespoke kitchen in the store.
    — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 2 Nov. 2018
  • There was no more food left in the cupboards or the pantry.
    — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • There isn’t an inch of room left for it in the cupboard.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • The Broncos have five picks in the first four rounds of the 2020 draft and the aim should be to keep those in the cupboard.
    — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Why not re-stock the cupboard and try to land a late first-round pick?
    — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • And, needless to say, no Cups have been added to the cupboard.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
  • The Bears have holes to fill and upgrades to make, but the cupboard is far from bare.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The good news is the Saints' cupboard is far from empty.
    — Rod Walker, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Sticks her head around the corner of the cupboard under the stairs and looks at the front door.
    — Keith Ridgway, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • Things like the weighted slide of a drawer and swing of a cupboard.
    — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The Chiefs will miss Sneed but the cupboard isn’t bare at the position.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2024
  • My son reminds me to pick my clothes up off the floor and shut the kitchen cupboard doors.
    — Lyz Lenz, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Does all the worry in the cupboards of your mind belong there?
    — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2019
  • The cupboard wasn’t bare for Kiffin in Oxford, and the streak ends here.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 1 Oct. 2020
  • No more bending down to get something out from the back of the cupboard.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 17 June 2020

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