How To Use Drawer In A Sentence
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The players were top drawer.
The Sun
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Anne took a tea-towel from the dresser drawer.
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I throw a suitcase on the bed and pop it open, and begin to stuff clothes into drawers and hang them in the wardrobe.
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She could feel underclothes, linen drawers, silken chemise, a farthingale with its stiffened hoops.
Ill Met By Moonlight
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I chanced on this old photograph in his drawer.
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Finally he pulled out a shirt from a drawer in his dresser.
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The thing buried in the knicker drawer could end up on the coffee table.
Times, Sunday Times
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The drawer had been emptied of its contents.
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To neatly convey the choice of sizes in the case of such items as drawer pulls, the entire range might be lined up on the page in descending order.
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Like Flaubert, Daudet was a syphilitic, boasting unchivalrously that he'd caught the disease from ‘a lady from the top drawer’.
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It has lockable drawers, leather-lined jewellery trays and a cheval mirror.
Times, Sunday Times
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The undergarments included stockings, petticoats, drawers, and a corset.
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He ran the torch over the shelves cabinets table drawers but there were no more photographs and no obvious photo albums.
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Every splash of bright colour has gone back into a drawer not to be glimpsed again until next spring.
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He pulls out a drawer beside me, and starts riffling through it, obviously he doesn't find what he's looking for, because he slams the drawer a moment later and opens the one below it.
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He pulled open the top drawer beneath.
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The crisper drawer contains two apples, a bag of black seedless grapes, and a bulb of garlic.
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Get rid of the bulky boxes the shoes came in, pop them into homemade or store-bought shoe bags, and line them up in neat rows inside the drawers.
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The scissors are in the kitchen drawer .
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In the drawer was a selection of kitchen utensils - spoons, spatulas, knives and whisks.
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Then, going into one of the drawers, he took out an eyepiece fitted with a lens, a locking clamp, and a rock-hammer.
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She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer, sharpened her pencil and got down to work.
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It was also the only time of year, we would use some of the really wacky spices in our spice drawer, like mace, and allspice and poultry seasoning.
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There were file cabinets scattered in all sides of the room, and also drawers, cabinets, and tall shelves.
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That was one he printed out and kept in his drawer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which is exactly the same as opening my wife's knicker drawer and photographing what's in there.
Times, Sunday Times
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The acting was top drawer with realistic yet gritty story lines.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plush, blue quilted leather seats in my test car were topdrawer.
The Sun
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He opened a drawer in his writing-table.
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For three years or so the squares lay open, and their sacred turf was trodden by the feet of working-class children, a sight to make dividend-drawers gnash their false teeth.
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It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
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We searched all morning for the missing papers and finally discovered them in a drawer.
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Neither the drawer of the cheque nor the original payee consented to the alteration of the payee.
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If the wood is thicker than three-fourths of an inch, you can either substitute longer screws or counterbore the interior surface of the door or drawer so that the screw head is recessed into the wood.
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The drawer full of takeout menus is okay , right ?
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These are all displayed in giant bottom drawers.
Times, Sunday Times
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She bundled her clothes into the drawer without folding them.
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Each door and drawer is individually finished by craftsmen to bring out the full beauty of the grain.
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The dress was put in a drawer, unfinished but not forgotten about.
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He handed out a cheque for ￡500 from the drawer and gave it to me.
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It retains not only its original octagonal stamped English brasses and ivory escutcheons but also most of its gray-blue paper drawer and cupboard lining.
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Turning over a new leaf How gratifying to learn that lots of us have disgusting salad drawers.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Becky goes into the schoolhouse, she notices that the schoolmaster has left his desk key in the lock on the drawer.
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When my nightstands started showing their age, I ripped pages out of an old atlas and refaced the drawers with maps.
A Dollar Here, a Dollar There. But So What?
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Missouri fortunately escaped. opened my trunks and boxes and exposed the articles to dry. found my papers damp and several articles damp. the stoper had come out of a phial of laudinum and the contents had run into the drawer and distroyed a gret part of my medicine in such manner that it was past recovery. waited very impatiently for the return of
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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She ran downstairs as the raiders flung open drawers and sent furniture flying.
The Sun
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Every splash of bright colour has gone back into a drawer not to be glimpsed again until next spring.
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Are there, mouldering in some bottom drawer, still existing examples of the Brigadoon bra and panties?
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Katie crept up the stairs to her room and quickly riffled through her desk drawer to find her wallet.
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The fact that these three are expert drawers and painters doesn't hurt either.
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From a drawer in the oak sideboard he fetched another crucifix on a heavy chain and a pair of thick bracelets.
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This morning I was pawing through my jumbled collection of socks, looking for a match to an olive one I had already plucked from the drawer.
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If you're going on a mainly pole venue you will generally need more shallow drawer space to store your winders.
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I unlocked your desk drawer and found your pack of evidence.
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There are his and her hanging lockers, drawers beneath the bed and a large adjoining head complete with tub and shower.
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There was a locked drawer in the desk in the den, so it was the one I opened first.
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Furious now, his mother stormed across the room and yanked open his vanity drawer, rummaging around until she found a pair of shears.
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He opens the top drawer of the freezer compartment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eleven years on and the hurried portraits of Dave, Nick and Mat will this week be put up for auction at a sale which will either bewilder people, or get them hunting through drawers for that elusive bit of paper from the time they got the artist to draw them a picture.
Damien Hirst doodles put up for auction
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She slipped into a T-shirt and a pair of sweatpants she found in one of the drawers.
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Shine your torch into the drawer.
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She quickly ran to her dresser, pulling the first drawer her open, her eyes searching for the glisten of gold.
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Mother went through the drawer looking for the sweater.
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But what strack me first was that his seamit an 'his drawers werena there.
My Man Sandy
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She rummaged through her nightstand drawer until she found her journal.
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The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners.
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And speaking of toys of a sexual nature, we also asked what kind of accoutrements we might find in the drawer of your bedside table.
Portland Mercury
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I think we could all benefit from a fresh rummage in our drawers to give our wardrobes and our figures the uplift we deserve.
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Some will be held up, magnified and singled out for attention later while others will line binders, file drawers, photoboxes, portfolios and remain hidden away.
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As she uncomfortably lowered herself onto the chair on the guest side of his desk, he pulled a sheaf of parchment tied together with twine from a desk drawer.
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He opened a door of the ambry, pulled out a drawer, and, pressing some spring, revealed a narrow, secret shelf.
Foes
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Brazilian navy divers who hauled it to the surface found metal drawers containing ready meals for passengers still securely wedged inside.
The Sun
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We have an art-class sock drawer of wildly outrageous socks that yearn to be in show business.
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I keep my socks in the bottom drawer.
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She's out of the top drawer / She's very top drawer.
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If the steps to the basement are open, install tracks and a pullout drawer on the underside of one or more steps.
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Jim made another sweep of the room, opening the drawers on the writing desk.
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Douglas Stone took his case of bistouries from a drawer, and placed it with a roll of bandage and a compress of lint in his pocket.
Round the Red Lamp
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I found the cash box no problem - simply because somebody had locked it in the wrong drawer.
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She worked to the eighth month and it tricked her into thinking she was in control, that she could open and shut the drawers of the different compartments of her life at will.
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Destiny put her stuff in one of the empty drawers in her dresser and sat back down at the table with tears in her eyes.
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Without a thank you, Daisy Raymond shoved the money into the register drawer.
HOUR OF THE HUNTER
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Some people keep their bulbs in the refrigerator crisper drawer, taking care to avoid storing them with ripening fruit.
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Accurate data on the dimensions of the materiel being containerized are needed for planning and determining the right size and number of drawers and the compartment sizes for the required module configuration.
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Painted armoires provide a practical alternative to a traditional chest of drawers and can be used to store clothing as well as books, magazines, computer software and videotapes.
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But he managed to climb on to a chest of drawers pushed under a window.
The Sun
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When you sit down to eat tonight, may armed men not barge into your house and search your wife's underwear drawer.
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You always have a supply of clean underwear, freshly laundered in a drawer.
The Sun
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The drawer, by drawing the instrument, admits the existence of the payee and his then capacity to indorse; and engages that on due presentment the in - strument will be accepted or paid, or both, according to its tenor, and that if it is dishonored, and the necessary proceedings on dishonor are duly taken, he will pay the amount thereof to the holder, or to any subsequent in - dorser who may be comjoelled to pay it.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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It's worth taking your vacuum cleaner, dusters, disinfectant, dishcloths and drawer-liners with you in the car.
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Francisco moved to the desk, adjusting the towel around the paunch of his waist before bending over the bottom drawer.
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Nephew Jack's third letter again had me delving deep into my drawer full of old newspaper cuttings, and after a quick rummage around I found just what I was looking for.
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I rummaged through my drawer for his key.
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As she slurped water noisily, I put her leash back in the drawer.
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I spent most of the night rummaging through desk drawers and sifting through filing cabinets.
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I went to my drawer where I kept my new strings but all that was in it was a notebook, some pens and guitar picks.
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The largest is the drawer machine which has 4 feeds and knits from four bobbins.
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She laid the open atlas down on the table and began to dig through kitchen drawers.
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She opened a drawer in the restroom cabinet, moved aside a curling iron and a hairbrush, and stared with a long face at the coin nestled among the hair pens and mascara wands.
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I left it either on the table or in the drawer.
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He stowed his passport away safely in a drawer.
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He secreted his winnings in a drawer.
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He opened a drawer in his desk and produced from it a full bottle of Rannoch whisky, the familiar label adorned with an imposing male kilted figure in red and yellow tartan.
PROOF
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Notebooks filled margin to margin with my tiny scrawl spill out-of the desk drawers.
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You might fancy her in red lace, but is it really what she wants? Take a look in her knicker drawer when the moment is right and see what she buys for herself.
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I grab a handful of clothes and stuff it into the drawer of the mahogany dresser next to one of the king-sized beds.
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Tug the drawer and it will open.
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He raked about in the drawer looking for his passport.
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He returned a short time later with the legs and drawers from a wooden desk, along with several cans of vegetables and some bottles of water from the secure room.
Brian Keene
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Nah, aw like a chap o 'that sooart, if he doesn't carry things too far: but when he begins to say' at he con build a haase as weel as a mason, an 'mak a kist o' drawers as weel as a joiner, or praich a sarmon as weel as th 'parson -- or playa bazzoon, or spetch a pair o' clogs better nor ony man breathin -- then, aw say, tak care an 'ha' nowt to do wi 'him.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
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Eventually, as she got older, the bank book lay unused in a drawer.
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Pens are kept in the middle drawer.
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You always have a supply of clean underwear, freshly laundered in a drawer.
The Sun
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This spring a splash of colour will add oomph to your knicker drawer.
The Sun
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After rummaging through the drawer Jimmy pulled out a small, shiny object.
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She quietly slid her desk drawer back in after she pulled out the lone picture which had occupied that space for several months.
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This drawer is jammed.
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Harry propped himself up on one elbow and pulled open the top drawer of the bedside cabinet.
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Lucy was looking very sneaky as she rummaged through her drawers to find black leotards, a black turtleneck, and black gloves.
E Is for Environment
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I went to my dresser, opened the drawer, and counted about 25 t-shirts of my own.
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It beats carrying round a drawerful of specialised gizmos, and since you're going to be carrying a phone anyway, you might as well have the other functions thrown in for when you require them.
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The drawers were chock-full of invitations to dinner parties and benefits.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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But he managed to climb on to a chest of drawers pushed under a window.
The Sun
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Spare house and garage keys in the top right hand drawer of Charles's desk.
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Scent your drawers and wardrobe with your favourite aromas.
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The drawer is so tight I can't open it.
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A special type of case arises where the drawer of the cheque and the payee maintain their accounts with the same bank.
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So from pantaloons and pantalettes to divided drawers, boxers, granny pants and bikinis, you can bet your choice of underwear will get a mention, and no doubt Hawthorne knows exactly what it says about you.
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She pulled her favourite hairbrush out of the top right-hand drawer and started brushing her long auburn hair.
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This week's veg box has arrived but half of last week's is still festering in the veg drawer.
Times, Sunday Times
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These include drawers with dovetails, chest sides rabbeted to receive front drawer supports, and the use of significantly thinner stock for drawer sides and bottoms.
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Ruth was looking for an envelope in a drawer when she was sidetracked by some old letters.
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Locked drawers and cabinets keep little hands safe, as do childproof safety covers for electrical outlets.
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The stylized sprigs on the drawer fronts and the insides of the doors could have been copied from Indian manuscript illuminations or from Indian textiles.
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Infamous for it's explicit rape scene and bloody violence which got it put on the UK's "Video Nasties" list, Karl Howman ("Jacko" of Brush Strokes fame) and director/stunt double Vic Armstrong play the rapists (so most of their big scene has ended up in the BBFC's personal viewing drawer).
Exposé aka Trauma aka The House On Straw Hill
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Yet somehow I possess a drawerful of new, unopened examples of these useless items of male apparel.
Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas
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She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.
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Not knowing how to respond, her teacher gave her a forced smile and reached in one of her drawers for a matchbook.
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The lockable frieze drawer usually contained three tinned compartments with tightly fitting lids in which to store tea and sugar.
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Then, she tried the drawer of the desk that she knew the test answer key was hidden in.
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I had to hunt through all my drawers looking for the old photograph.
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She pulled open a deep drawer in her desk, picked out a dazer and belt, and strapped them around her waist.
Starship
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If the drawer closes his account with the latter bank in the meantime, the cheque will be dishonoured by that bank due to the collecting bank's dilatoriness.
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Garrett was sitting down at his desk, rereading notes he had found stuck away in a drawer.
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I walked in, announced I was quitting and was given enough time to type up my resignation, take my personal effects from my drawers, and was gone.
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Upon examining the rest of the drawers, she realized it was more of a vanity than a desk.
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This is not practical for the beads on the vertical edges of the drawers.
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His services to his native country rendered his name endeared to hundreds of thousands of native Irish Catholics, men whom he himself looked on, and quite truly, as being powerless in Ireland either for good or evil, merely "hewers of wood and drawers of water".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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I took my Sony from a drawer,(sentence dictionary) slotted a tape in and pressed the record button.
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I reckon anyone who can hide in a drawer without the aid of an accomplice is so ingenious they deserve not to be caught.
Shannon Matthews « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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And in the end he became a hewer of wood and drawer of water at the beck and call of Moosu.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW
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She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.
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He shut the drawer and turned the key.
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He stripped down to his drawers in measured motions that made her want to gnash her teeth with frustration, but when he finally shucked them, too, she caught her breath.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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Bloom rummaged in his desk drawer and pulled out a laminated map of the building.
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It came to me this morning as I was hunting in my pant drawers dragging out pair after pair of tired old greying holey stretched trunks that what I really wanted was a much sexier choice.
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I catch her going through my drawers and backpack, and she snoops on my little brother even more, searching his room and listening to his phone conversations.
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When the candy was in their desk drawer, they ate only six pieces; when it was out of sight six feet from the desk, they averaged just four.
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) Second drawer, scratch pads and packs of adhesive memos with album and record company logos on them.
DEAD BEAT
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He folded the papers and stuck them in his desk drawer.
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When it comes to acing your mani, this look is top-drawer.
The Sun
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There's an extra duvet in the bottom drawer of the cupboard.
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She found the key, unlocked a drawer, opened it carefully, lifted the layer of soft padding, chose two test tubes of a strange green substance, replaced the layer, and locked the drawer again.
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Buddy yanked the drawer open, and took out the gun.
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His pants were "gallused" to their utmost capacity, leaving considerable space between his knees and the tops of his old brogan shoes; not having on "drawers," of course the skin was exposed.
Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
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The figure from Dalí's "City of Drawers" was used on the cover of The Atrocity Exhibition in 1970 but for me the matching of Ernst's decalcomania masterpiece "The Eye of Silence" is far more successful.
MIND MELD: The Most Memorable SF/F Book Covers
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Aside from a few photo albums, several DVDs and CDs, a couple dozen books, and what was the equivalent to a drawer full of notepads, journals, and jotters, I had very few other notable possessions to put in my room.
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Have you thought about unchaining the drawer on the cash register and buying a new car, complete with warranty?
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It is also recommended that bedside tables have a pair of wire cutters in the drawers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He started grabbing various things and slamming them against walls, bureau drawers, and desks, not caring what he was throwing.
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There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer, he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.
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Timbre and volume are controlled by switches and knobs in a drawer on the left side of the instrument.
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He closed it, moving onto the next drawer, noticing that this one was full of extra long nightshirts.
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In fact, you think the move -- which preps you for a BLOOD FEAST-style glossectomy that never happens -- is a bout finisher until Dr. Kutter, in her struggle (but obviously still thinking with the chill practicality of a certified clinician), reaches into a drawer full of medical instruments and grabs a scalpel (standard #10 blade) with a mind toward literally getting this freak off her back.
31 Screams: Diana Brown
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Yes, it's wedding season, boys, and like it or not, most groomsmen will be receiving some memento from their best wedded pal that will most likely end up in a geegaw drawer, never to be used.
Groomsmen Gifts: What Gives?
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The money is safely locked in a drawer.
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Are my keys in the drawer?
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But if I may be so bold, I can't help my drawers and potmen talking with your servants.
The Last Galley Impressions and Tales
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But there was a drawer full of the proper sensible stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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The metal frame holds drawers and shelves in teak and lacquered wood.
Times, Sunday Times
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My producer reached into his desk drawer and pulled out a few pieces of paper held together with a paper clip.
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She'd open a drawer or reach into a kitchen cabinet and find a hidden note.
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He chucked the paper in a drawer.
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Most be some phenomenal underdrawers, *makes note to try underwear in all foreign countries*
Recent goings on
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(laughter) but more often of the crŠme-de-citron, vair ‚ mail paon-coque or marshmallow series, which she, as bearer, used to en — dorse, adhesively, to her various payers-drawers who in most cases were identified by the timber papers as wellknown tetigists of the city and suburban.
Finnegans Wake
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I just opened the drawer as usual and the handle came away in my hand.
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Kagg squirrelled the report away in his top drawer and made a big deal of locking it.
CORMORANT
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) Second drawer, scratch pads and packs of adhesive memos with album and record company logos on them.
DEAD BEAT
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The condemned pile soon amounts to more than three quarters of the entire drawer.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are my gloves. Hers are in the drawer.
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While, in suburb Wetland Park planning, the top-drawer ecosystem services are water quality and water supply reservoirs, and biodiversity conservation.
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A man with flyaway hair was digging through a desk drawer, scowling.
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I sat in my bedroom and slipped the scrapbook out of the bottom drawer.
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The drawers slide in and out easily.
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You'll find some in the drawer.
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You could make a lucky find in a drawer you rarely open.
The Sun
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He kept a drawerful of parental excuse notes that he knew his students had forged in order to play truant from school; then he set them a class test on making their excuses more convincing.
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May the police now turn up on a whim and rootle around in our drawers? safeasmilk 2 October 2011 7:47AM
The Guardian World News
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Swensson tossed them into a drawer, where they sat as the deadline to respond came and went.
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The most common sugar box is a dovetailed or post-and-paneled box on legs with a drawer, not unlike the earlier case and bottles used for liquor storage.
