(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.
Pantry
Definition:
(n.) An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Expect it to be talk of floor tonight during 6pm hr vote series October 14, 2013 6.15pm BST Obama: 'there has been some progress' Speaking to reporters at a Washington food pantry, where hailed volunteer work by furloughed federal workers, President Obama said there had been "progress" in the budget talks.
(2) But Miranda Kaunang of GMFS admits more suppliers are needed: “There’s an art to managing a pantry in terms of supplies,” she says.
(3) North said: “When we believe we have got the offer right, and the economics, we will roll it out internationally.” The expansion of Pantry comes on the back of a productive year for Amazon in the UK.
(4) If they end up going to the pantry for the next 10 years, that’s fine.
(5) Over two hours before the Brinnington Local Pantry opens, Christine arrives to take her seat at the head of the queue.
(6) It’s not a normal shop, but it is close to a normal shop.” Cooper is working with Stockport Homes on plans to develop the pantry model across Greater Manchester.
(7) He is a big fan of the Portland Timbers MLS club, volunteers at his church and helps run a food pantry for low-income children.
(8) Belle Gibson said she was inspired to launch The Whole Pantry recipe app in 2013 after being diagnosed with a terminal, malignant brain cancer in 2009 and told she had months to live.
(9) We wanted something that provided dignity and choice.” So the pantry was born.
(10) Brinnington Pantry tops this up with free fruit and vegetables financed from the club’s subscription revenue.
(11) She comes to the food pantry three times a month and shares what she has with her 85-year-old neighbour.
(12) In Virginia, Charles Meng, the executive director of the Arlington Food Assistance Center (Afac), told the Guardian this will increase the burden on families who benefit from his pantry, which serves 1,500 families each week.
(13) Fresh analysis of a collection of 19th-century watercolours by the New Zealand landscape artist JR Smythe, shows that in one portrait, “Summer Pantry” dated 1888, a partially eaten Lamington cake is clearly visible on the counter of a cottage overlooking Wellington Harbour.
(14) I got a bit restless and had a quick snoop in his pantry, where he had little more than lots of bottled water and a few packets of oatcakes.
(15) Herman Carnie: We provide food through a network of 650 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.
(16) The Whole Pantry forecasted income in October 2014, which was not fulfilled, creating cashflow issues and unforeseen delays on finalising three discussed charitable donations,” the statement said.
(17) 1.34pm BST Wolmarans obtained another door from Pistorius' property – a pantry door similar in style, material and dimensions to the toilet door – on which to conduct tests.
(18) The following variables were positively related to not eating: ethnicity, location, receipt of Medicaid, living alone, health problems, mobility, age less than 80 years, cancer, nausea, difficulty swallowing, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and receipt of food from a food pantry.
(19) Stockport Homes has four pantries, and GMFS supplies about 15 pantries in Greater Manchester.
(20) These used to be referred to as 'emergency food pantries', but now it's like people are having an emergency every day.