cubbyhole
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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
They were looking for the source of a leak in the roof, but tucked inside a cubbyhole were the "skeletal remains", Mr Glady said.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024
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
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
Report cards weren’t handed out; they were slotted into our personal cubbyholes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
She’d also like to see childcare assistance and facilities become available to female athletes so they don’t have to search for bathrooms or cubbyholes to tend to their children during competitions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
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
To accommodate them, Capitol carpenters have installed a cabinet of cubbyholes, complete with charging cables, in the cloakrooms just outside the Senate floor.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2020
The ruby orb spun into the air and sailed straight for the cubbyholes.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
