(n.) A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.
(v. t.) To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anwar, who was not Sanam's father, admitted to police after his arrest that he put the girl in the cupboard as punishment and said Navsarka punished her in the same way.
(2) Of course, that would have liberated me from the airing cupboard, but it wouldn't have solved the present situation.
(3) Counsell says: “If that is done, there is the possibility to increase palm oil production without causing the environmental damage that we’ve seen in Borneo, while bringing much needed developmental improvements to the communities in those regions.” Watch the palm oil debate interactive: From rainforest to your cupboard: the real story of palm oil - interactive The palm oil debate is funded by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
(4) Just as well, perhaps; Sweden has quite a number of skeletons in her historical cupboard, as of course do we.
(5) When she fell to the ground, officers circled her, beating and kicking her limp body, banging her head against a near-by cupboard, leaving her finally in a pool of blood.
(6) The whole process of using thin bags and then hiding them inside another thin bag inside another at the back of a dark cupboard is, for the perpetrator, degrading.
(7) Food banks are proliferating; the bedroom tax combined with council tax and benefit cuts leave more people each month with empty cupboards and crippling bills.
(8) Then it’ll reach out to a person and the person will say: “Oh, that’s a jar of oil, and that belongs in the cupboard next to the jar of vinegar.” And the robot will say: “Got it!” And now every single one of them knows.
(9) As the spirit on which such sexy drinks as mojitos and daquiris are based, it is a standard buy for most home drinks cupboards.
(10) The messy cupboards and cluttered shelves were like an actual subconscious I could purge of its guilt and pain.
(11) In a cupboard, tins of tomato soup, dried pasta, tea bags, tinned pineapple and stuffing mix.
(12) The owner hauled out said blender and then, from the back of the cupboard, a beaten up old colander with a stray piece of noodle still stuck to the rim.
(13) He had turned his modest flat into couchsurfing Grand Central – a Polish couple in one room, two Chinese in another, a pair of Latvians in a tent on the balcony, and me in a converted cupboard.
(14) The marching boots were thrown to the back of the cupboard and you went into a major sulk.
(15) We left with a wind-up frog that seemed entrancingly lifelike in the shop floor demo, but at home just trundled dully up and down the bathtub until it caught black mould and was banished to the airing cupboard.
(16) I think they’ll lock themselves in a cupboard on election night next year.” Out on the stump in the Castle ward one sunny September afternoon, not all voters want to hear Sherriff promise to solve their cost of living crises.
(17) The former MP, advocate of the left and anti-war campaigner, who died last week, aged 88, also placed a plaque in a cupboard of the crypt in memory of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison.
(18) Living in a fashion cupboard is extremely depressing, not just because it's tiny and windowless, but because you're surrounded by things you will never be able to afford – though, after a while, everything starts to look like Primark tat.
(19) First, they don't last (last year, I found a five-year-old one in the back of the cupboard which was hard as a rock), so no investment possibilities here.
(20) As [consumers] become sensitised to the issues,” says Morley, “then they will, they should, convert the manufacturers to providing them with sustainable palm oil products.” Read more stories like this: From rainforest to your cupboard: the real story of palm oil - interactive 10 things you need to know about sustainable palm oil Palm oil: the secret in your shopping basket - have your say The palm oil debate is funded by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
Locker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, locks.
(n.) A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the separate facilities provision is permissive, states that authorise schools to define sex to include gender identity for purposes of providing separate restroom, locker room, showers, and other intimate facilities will not be impacted by it,” said Judge O’Connor.
(2) Professional locker rooms have long been apolitical places – at least on the surface – given the kind of money at stake both in salary and endorsements.
(3) And creating a locker room where there's responsibility and accountability.
(4) Read more Like everyone on the Tour, Sharapova will have heard locker-room whispers of skulduggery, real or imagined.
(5) The South Dakota bill, which would mandate school restroom facilities and locker rooms “be designated for and used only by students of the same biological sex”, passed the state senate and awaits a decision from the state’s Republican governor, Dennis Daugaard, who is said to be favorable to the bill.
(6) As I walked through the reception area and into the locker rooms and saunas themselves, I spotted old magazines littered on mid-century coffee tables and pictures of Finnish pin-ups adorning the wood-panelled walls.
(7) Work on The Maze Runner came about, he says, because his director watched Son of Rambow “and knew I had some bully-ish qualities in my acting locker”.
(8) An hour-long chronology of barbarism that the group posted online in June featured an opening sequence copied straight from the 2009 film about the Iraq war, The Hurt Locker .
(9) That even though he plays the biggest leadership position on the field and once took the 49ers within yards of winning a Super Bowl , he has been a distant presence in the locker room.
(10) I have a feeling that this one might stand for a while.” Golden State stormed to an early lead behind Curry’s hot shooting, heading into the locker room at half time leading by 20 points.
(11) But there was disappointment on Monday for Lee Pearson, the dressage rider who had nine gold medals in his locker coming into the Games and was one of the most recognisable faces of the build-up.
(12) The so-called "cloud-based locker" stores peoples' photos, films and purchased music online so that they can be accessed on a number of devices.
(13) Seems to me, there isn't quite a Slumdog or a King's Speech this year to grab the popular British attention, and we don't yet have the internecine drama of, say, a race boiling down to Avatar vs Hurt Locker .
(14) This was a film American conservatives complained was a pro-Obama manifesto, but the Academy has evidently decided that it was at all events pretty strong meat, maybe too strong and less obviously sympathetic to the American fighting man than Bigelow's last Oscar-winner The Hurt Locker.
(15) Although he did afterwards hug his charge in an awkward locker room embrace, it was soon broken up when another member of Murray's team covered them both with champagne and the Czech began swearing.
(16) Of those, 80m are expected to be collected from stores or other handy locations such as lockers or post offices, according to Starkey.
(17) We needed guys that had been in a winning locker room if possible.
(18) (Neither does the movie – the eight-year-long war in Iraq, which was the subject of The Hurt Locker – is conspicuous by its absence.)
(19) Asked by the MP Jim Cousins whether any regulator was ever able to contain the "locker room" culture of banks, Turner said: "Regulators can do a very much better job than in the past."
(20) In my locker downstairs, my (Elizabeth David-approved) lunchtime sandwich of prosciutto and brie patiently awaited my return, but even so, it was a dispiriting business.