cubbyhole

Example Sentences

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“I don’t begrudge anyone retiring,” longtime regular Daniel Eiben said Sept. 15, poking his head into Yoshimura’s cluttered cubbyhole of an office on the store’s penultimate day in business.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

They traveled in the same direction from the Oval Office to their offices in the northwest corner of the White House, which shared a cubbyhole bathroom.

From Washington Post • Jul. 24, 2020

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

She sat up, and that motion made the light in her little cubbyhole room come on.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix