How To Use Pigeonhole In A Sentence

  • Nanotechnology is in danger of being pigeonholed as a risky, hazardous and controversial business, a new study has found, because companies in the emerging field are not tackling the very real health and safety issues involved.
  • Her grids may symbolize pigeonholes but she pays homage to the individuality of people.
  • Every morning I'd check my pigeonhole in case the letter had finally arrived telling me that a distant relative had died and I was now the heir to a title and a vast estate.
  • The tidy committee men regard them with horror,knowing that no pigeonholes can be found for them.
  • In her pigeonhole a batch of envelopes was waiting for her from the afternoon's post. THE WHITE DOVE
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  • The letter lay unopened in the travel firm's pigeonhole.
  • Americans do like to pigeonhole: You're either for us or against us, an evil-doer or a do-gooder, a true American or a one-worlder.
  • The negative attacks on Obama should have been begun from the get-go, so as to disallow Obama to get his message across and pigeonhole him so to speak. Matthew Yglesias » Organizing Your People
  • Second, the products of the new technologies are sometimes hard to fit into the law's pigeonholes.
  • If you've accurately pigeonholed someone, chances are what they're saying will match what you expect anyway.
  • We call this new sort of person a terrorist for lack of any better term, but we do not really have any pigeonholes in which he fits, nor any sense of what institutions and practices will be required to cope with him.
  • Critics have him pigeonholed as ‘Flash Gordon,’ that postmodern enfant terrible who rocketed to stardom on the supercharged fireworks of the State of Illinois Building in 1985.
  • This's a sophisticated and fun album, and there's not a genre or pigeonhole anywhere that can diminish its originality and life-loving energy.
  • TS: Playing off that whole "pigeonholed" thing up there, I really like all the bird tattoos I've seen in your portfolio. Penisbot.com Quality Porn Links
  • There was a message waiting for me in the hotel pigeonhole. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
  • Each composer is placed in a pigeonhole or assigned to a particular school, while those who do not fit comfortably under any of the standard-isms get a category all to themselves.
  • Teenagers are retaliating against being pigeonholed as anti-social yobs by holding a day of neighbourhood action.
  • Leave the report in my pigeonhole when you've read it.
  • The tape player and the CD player are left of the phone, with pigeonholes for all the various storage items that Judy needs close at hand.
  • While there are several fine left-of-center sites, the blogosphere currently tilts right, albeit idiosyncratically, reflecting the hard-to-pigeonhole politics of some leading bloggers.
  • The letter lay unopened in the travel firm's pigeonhole.
  • The depth of each shelf is too deep - they look like pigeonholes.
  • The tidy committee men regard them with horror,knowing that no pigeonholes can be found for them.
  • People find it very difficult to deal with subject matter that crosses over from one pigeonhole into another.
  • As we have explained more fully in a previous book*, we inherit this system of historical pigeonholes from Christendom; that arbitrary chequerwork of hundred-year blocks was imposed upon the entire Mediterranean and Atlantic literatures for two thousand years, and it still distorts the views of history of all but the alertest minds. The Shape of Things to Come
  • I am an attractive girl working in the media who happens to be a lesbian, but I did not want to be pigeonholed as a ‘gay voice‘.
  • The gnarled finger plucked another sheet from a pigeonhole, dipped the pen in the standish again, and rewrote the words as surely as the first time. The Thorn Birds
  • Putting our heads together, we came up with a construct rather like an old-fashioned pigeonhole desk that fits neatly between the forward cabin bulkheads.
  • Jackie is an American living in the UK and she doesn't like being pigeonholed so I'll avoid trying to place here on the political spectrum.
  • KURTZ: Weren't you kind of pigeonholed on "CROSSFIRE" as being from the right, so that almost no matter what the issue is, you're expected to disagree with Paul Begala or James Carville? CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2003
  • March 2, 2003, edition, a National Public Radio commentator on language named Geoffrey Nunberg was lamenting in an op-ed piece that liberals had been "pigeonholed" by conservatives. Who's Looking Out for You
  • Her towering friend abruptly became more animated, seeing Maria entering the room and strolling over to her pigeonhole where an abundance of documents were stacked.
  • There are also lockers next to the pigeonholes. Ask the porters.
  • They've been unfairly pigeonholed as a team that kicks to the corners all the time.
  • Leave the report in my pigeonhole when you've read it.
  • This shouldn't be pigeonholed as a religious issue or a religious controversy.
  • Feist falls into the ‘credible easy listening’ pigeonhole, if you must insist on categorising her music.
  • The letter lay unopened in the travel firm's pigeonhole.
  • In her pigeonhole a batch of envelopes was waiting for her from the afternoon's post. THE WHITE DOVE
  • Patsy was pigeonholed as a Country and Western singer, but that's too simple.
  • It's fortunate that they set up those pigeonholes because some of the pigeons have come home to roost.
  • Abandoning a successful professional kickboxing career to dedicate himself to fighting professionally in mixed martial arts in 2003, Stout has since been unable to escape being pigeonholed as a "kickboxer" by pundits and fans of the sport .... Fightnews - Boxing News Updated 24/7
  • Her route in the north tower has been transformed into a 6ft-by - 6ft steel cubicle (called a ‘sorting case’) surrounded by tall metal racks of pigeonholes.
  • He is a film producer who can't be conveniently pigeonholed.
  • Consultants found the experience frustrating - their reports were only partly implemented, or, worse still, just pigeonholed.
  • We already know how the system works; when you don't fit into the acceptable pigeonholes, you're the object of derision, or worse.
  • They're housed in an old set of pigeonholes from a school.
  • The worst thing about his stay in the psychiatric hospital, he says, was the concentrated pressure to conform to someone else's idea of a regular guy, to slot neatly into a pigeonhole.
  • Some people may not like the changes on this record, but I don't want to be pigeonholed.
  • These classifications place the rocks into pigeonholes which, although useful, tend to conceal the fact that there is a continuum of rock compositions.
  • With her title of ‘clinical coordinator’ her status could not be pigeonholed by royal college certification or rubber stamped with a consultant grade, but her accomplishment speaks for itself.
  • However, the artist was not pleased to be pigeonholed as simply a cartoonist, particularly as this categorisation intensified in the public's mind - he took his other work just as seriously, and wanted to extend his repertoire further.
  • We don't want to be pigeonholed as being value or growth investors.
  • I am hoping that the results will be pleasing to the reader, if less "pigeonholed" to one place; engaging and sometimes provocative if less "booster"; revealing if less public. And now for something a little different
  • It is unfortunate but fairly likely that Griffiths will be niched and pigeonholed with this debut novel.
  • The New York Times obituary is overly keen to pigeonhole him in the Movement.
  • Assist to organize and deal with the meetings, and responsible for the meeting record, pigeonhole etc.
  • British singer ALISON GOLDFRAPP hates to be labelled a lesbian - because she doesn't want to be "pigeonholed". Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • He pigeonholes the request for a new park.
  • Shunning pigeonholes doesn't necessarily make for earth-shattering innovation.
  • Her need to control, to be in charge of every situation, to pigeonhole, is pathological -- always has been. SEA MUSIC
  • It had drawers on either side of a kneehole and the familiar array of small pigeonholes under the rolltop. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
  • Her need to control, to be in charge of every situation, to pigeonhole, is pathological -- always has been. SEA MUSIC
  • Pete pigeonholed his anxiety. There was nothing to be done now except hurry, and they were never invincible in the first place.
  • A 'present' vote was hard to pigeonhole which is exactly what Obama wanted. Hillary Mailer Attacks Obama On Abortion
  • It is so refreshing and inspiring to see people who live and behave outside of the pigeonholes that they have been slotted into.
  • But things have changed over the years, and I wouldn't want to pigeonhole myself in the next two years, I'll just see what comes up.
  • Gemma Arterton doesn't want to be a "pigeonholed" actress. Azcentral.com | news
  • There was a message waiting for me in the hotel pigeonhole. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
  • I do not want the pigeonhole of being ‘working class’, because it suggests that I am part of a group or club.
  • Gappah faces the perennial problem for writers from Africa seeking to win favour from the western media: how to avoid being pigeonholed. Story correction
  • She was a clever and sparky individual who could have flourished in any number of fields - had she not been packed into the pigeonhole marked ‘princess’.
  • With "You Are Where You Live," now you can discover what your pigeonhole is called -- just enter your ZIP code and the service will cough up your most likely demographic info (I'm either a Successful Single, a Mover And Shaker, a Mid-Life Success, a Great Beginning or an Urban Up And Comer). Boing Boing: August 19, 2001 - August 25, 2001 Archives
  • He pigeonholes the request for a new park.
  • That would be the most logical thing to do, and I wanted it to be free of all pigeonholes.
  • The person who is so close-minded to "pigeonhole" themselves into a certain way of thinking, i.e., strictly liberal or strictly conservative is what the true definition of ignorance is all about. Exclusive Video: Is This the Walking Record Whitetail?
  • The interior, which features a lighter wood - probably maple - is the most ambitious element of the desk, with stepped drawers, shaped pigeonhole valances, and a secret compartment.
  • The pigeonhole that he occupies is that of the landscapist-turned-abstractionist, and many viewers seem unwilling to grant him more than this description affords.
  • Next to the pigeonholes is a desk with a computer on it, an empty, worn swivel chair waiting.
  • It's really tough to pigeonhole, which is why it's taken me a week and a half to write a simple damn review. Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • He then pigeonholed the letter and forgot about it until yesterday.
  • My bet is they pigeonhole girls just like they always did, as nice girls or tarts.
  • It is basically one long corridor with a few alleys off the side. Right in the middle of it is an area called ‘the boxes’, which is a row of large pigeonholes for all the various media organisations where people leave their media releases.
  • He was taken with the rows of pigeonholes and small drawers in the hutch along the back of it.
  • But there's always that remote possibility that they'll transcend their pigeonhole and come with something harder, or just better.
  • If you were forced to put this best-selling pianist's music into a pigeonhole then the classical genre would have to do.
  • Black diamonds outlined by stringing and a cross-banded mahogany-veneer border highlight the doors, which open to reveal additional pigeonholes and drawers.
  • He's an intelligent man, and no-one likes being pigeonholed as a black-hearted satirist so early in their career.
  • Look through the pictures and pigeonhole each one into a generic class.
  • The half-hour quiz show was a chance for Jane to escape her pigeonhole as that Yorkshire lass who sings ballads.
  • So as you can imagine it was just a little bit difficult to find the exact pigeonhole to file them under.
  • The group's frontman has as much as admitted that this conscious move represents their reaction against the arty-whiteboys-with-guitars pigeonhole they sit in.
  • Maybe they don't like being "pigeonholed" and react badly to any suggestion that there's a model into which they can placed; maybe they're just so practical that they can't abide any theory at all; maybe they just enjoy sticking a knife into the creative work of others. Will The Real Explorer Please Stand Up?
  • In an effort to escape their pigeonhole, the band are back, with haircuts and a second album that is quite different from the first.
  • From its romanticized beginnings to its factious present state - there are half a dozen forms of Capoeira currently in existence - the game is hard to pigeonhole.
  • The ladder structure and the thousands of pigeonholes lining the inside are an amazing sight.
  • We are able to be our full, awkward selves, instead of the selves pigeonholed by our sexual identities.
  • Because I can't really separate the new from the old, the easiest way to clean out a label (what I call a pigeonhole) is to actually have enough time to deal with everything and empty it out. Ben Casnocha: The Blog
  • It doesn't fit into the pigeonholes with which marketing departments are comfortable.
  • When pressed, he identifies a tendency among senior managers to pigeonhole black presenters as the voices of ‘ghettos and estates’.
  • This gives her songs a greater sense of sass and spunk, which is probably how she got pigeonholed into Country so quickly (her earliest works actually sound pretty Gospel). Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Before he could be pigeonholed as a Pop artist, he also became an abstract painter, one who made not only bright, hard-edged abstractions that resembled color charts but also meltingly poetic monochromatic pictures.
  • Patsy was pigeonholed as a Country and Western singer, but that's too simple.
  • He was taken with the rows of pigeonholes and small drawers in the hutch along the back of it.
  • Crystal collected her mail from her pigeonhole down in the kitchen.
  • You must check your pigeonhole regularly to collect any mail, or messages left there by tutors, lecturers or administrative staff.
  • I don't mind being pigeonholed as long as people buy it and enjoy it.
  • I wrote the melody myself, and I don't think of myself as a good enough musician to kind of pigeonhole an area and write to it. Loudon Wainwright's 'Charlie Poole Project'
  • If that is intended as a riposte to the journalists and tastemakers who think that they have him pigeonholed, it is a spectacular and effective one.
  • He had the combination of two of the sections of pigeonholes, aerostatics and intelligence. The Last Shot
  • She insists there is a common thread running through the show, despite the fact that it features work and artists that refuse to be pigeonholed.
  • He must have been especially sensitive to the ways in which one gets, despite the variousness of one's output, pigeonholed.
  • This article does not seek to universalize the Japanese experience, but neither does it attempt to pigeonhole the case as representing a unique set of properties that are attributable to the specificities of Japanese political economy.
  • So when they came to label the pigeonhole in the mailroom where letters are placed for the newest member of the Obama family, they settled on the word "Dog". The Guardian World News
  • It is unfortunate but fairly likely that he will be niched and pigeonholed with this debut novel.
  • She got up and crossed to a little antique rosewood desk with pigeonholes and tiny drawers along the top.
  • But only those who are both exceptionally talented and exceptionally savvy can escape the ethnic pigeonhole.
  • He's an intelligent man, and no-one likes being pigeonholed as a black-hearted satirist so early in their career.
  • The nearest public telephones are located in Paupers Walk, next to the pigeonholes.
  • Pierce accepted his words as final and pigeonholed the message.
  • What it means is that they can't find a convenient pigeonhole in which to place this person's work.
  • He has sometimes been pigeonholed as an arch-conservative.
  • Leave the report in my pigeonhole when you've read it.
  • He looked in his pigeonhole, out of habit he assured himself rather than hope that he would be granted a place on the train-driving course.
  • He is already receiving fan mail: ‘Three weeks after my first episode, I had a full pigeonhole of mail which was surprising.’
  • I think he always felt kind of pigeonholed in the banker category. Beautiful Banker Yields Interest: Life After Goldman Is a Catwalk!
  • It has a cross-banded panel that falls down and a section behind it pulls out to reveal a fitted interior of pigeonholes above drawers flanking a central section of nine drawers arranged in three rows.
  • They will probably pigeonhole us just the same.
  • As soon as I reached the government headquarters, I headed on my usual tour of the various notice boards and pigeonholes to find any job details that may concern me, then headed for my locker.
  • Two weeks later I found his six pages of tightly typed notes in my pigeonhole.
  • In the result the public was deprived of critical information and it does not matter which pigeonhole the delict best fits.

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