cubbyhole

One classmate decided it’d be fun to raid my cubbyhole, fish out my report card, read it aloud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Previosly voted Wales' favourite word, Cwtch means hug or cuddle - however it's second meaning is a cubbyhole or cupboard; a small space in which to store things safely.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2024

She was one of just two women on Brzezinski’s staff and occupied a windowless cubbyhole in the West Wing, but Dr. Albright relished her proximity to power.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022

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

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2022

Through the steamy panes of the glassed- in cubbyhole that served as the coaches’ office, they could see Ulbrickson and Bolles hunched over a desk in their flannel suits, studying a piece of paper.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Report cards weren’t handed out; they were slotted into our personal cubbyholes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

By contrast, “Untitled” from 1998 is a grid of black cubbyholes, each one containing a found treasure: a baby doll’s head, a Japanese daruma doll, a plastic apple, the head of the Red Power Ranger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2023

Different passes allow different levels of access to halls, bars, committee rooms and cubbyholes within the Victorian-age premises.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

She published a monograph on Wooton’s Patent Secretary, an ornate desk designed and built in Indiana that had 100 cubbyholes and whose hinged wings could be folded and locked.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2020

Next to the stairs on the left, a row of cubbyholes was filled with leather cylinders—probably ancient scroll cases.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan