What is "cupboards"

Usage examples of "cupboards".

She opened all her cupboards, chests, and boxes and spread out all her beaded rubbish, enough baby jackets, baby pants, and bibs to clothe a set of quintuplets, held them up against me, tried them on, and took them off again.

There was still plenty of work for the grandfather before this room could be finished, for there were holes and cracks in the walls through which the wind whistled, and yet he had already nailed up so many new planks that it looked as if a lot of small cupboards had been set up round the room.

Someone had rummaged through his cupboards and found a box of crackers.

I looked on top of the cupboards and down the back of drawers and under the oven and I used my special Mag-Lite torch and a piece of mirror from the utility room to help me see into the dark spaces at the back of the cupboards where the mice used to get in from the garden and have their babies.

When the kitchen cupboards had been thoroughly cleaned out, the women broke for tea and Silk Cuts.

Then they went downstairs and searched the cupboards for something to have for breakfast.

Over the past four years he had made the place comfortable and suited to his needs, although this entailed its becoming smaller still, for in the main room he had made racks for his books, and in the bedroom wall cupboards to hold his clothes.

I slammed the porch door, and she scuttled over to the cupboards and pretended to dust the shelves.

Trent shivered, and to fix his mind again on actualities, opened two tall cupboards in the wall on either side of the bed.

He turned to the wardrobe cupboards again, and hunted through them carefully.

Margaret stood in the middle of the room and looked around at the tidy cupboards, the scrubbed tabletops and the floor.