cubbyhole

Example Sentences

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In a cubbyhole beneath an attic sat a radio room complete with desks, where detainees tuned in nightly to the BBC.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2022

And when you sneeze in one cubbyhole, a stranger in another calls out, “Bless you.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2022

The team didn’t even have an office, so Thorrington worked from a borrowed cubbyhole on the third floor of a building in West Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2019

She made a cubbyhole in some bamboo in her back garden and read The Secret Garden.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2019

Mr. Kempsey's cubbyhole has a leather chair, an Anglepoise reading lamp like my dad's, and a picture of Jesus holding a lantern by an ivy door.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell