What is "particleboard"

Usage examples of "particleboard".

Lamoreaux, the assistant manager at Grand Union, called me into his particleboard office and told me to sit.

The furniture was all fake-mahogany-veneered particleboard, and the window would only open three inches, barely enough to let in the greasy, hydrocarbon air.

The theater section was bare particleboard on the floor and as yet unsealed.

The drapes were hers, and the small stereo, the TV and its cheap stand, the six bookcases made of screw-it-together-yourself particleboard that sagged and groaned under the weight of her books, and the plants in the window.

He opened gummed eyes and saw the street artist back in her clothes, drawing something on the particleboard floor.

In the room was a narrow formica table and walls of cheap particleboard bookshelves stocked with accounting journals and tax codes and sets of law books now out of date.

Gleaming new Corian countertops hugged the walls, installed above a set of dilapidated particleboard cabinets, two with doors hanging by a single hinge.

A sudden barrage of shots came through the windows and walls, ripping through particleboard and plucking off letters and pictures.

The mess of shattered wood and particleboard extended into the large bathroom on the right.

She looked around the room, the pink and green flowers, the hummingbird pictures, the particleboard chest with oak veneer, the framed letter from the Holiday Inn management on the back of the door, her own brush and watch on top of the night table beside her.

Much easier than pulling it back through the leather and reinforced particleboard of the portfolio.

A long dead console television sat across the room from an equally ancient Hammond organ whose fake wood-grain lamination was separating from the particleboard beneath it.

In one corner, next to an ancient, stained laundry tub, was a heavy workbench made from a particleboard door set up on four-by-four legs.

The room was furnished much like his childhood home in Austin: bookshelves of cinder blocks and particleboard, comfortable sofa with sagging cushions and the nap on the arms worn thin, table that looked like a refugee from someone else's trash pile.