pigeonhole

Example Sentences

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As a college student, you have more imagination and idealism than a burned-out professional who feels pigeonholed into a particular industry.

From The Wall Street Journal

“You can get pigeonholed really quickly,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times

“If we embrace narrow group-based identities too fiercely, we cling to the very cages in which others would seek to trap us. We pigeonhole ourselves.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The American actor says she is "always" being pigeonholed into a certain role due to her age but she "resists at every turn".

From BBC

With a roughed-up face that defied Hollywood glamour, Hackman helped carve a path for unconventional leading men who in another era might have been pigeonholed as side characters.

From The Wall Street Journal