What is "pigeonhole"

Usage examples of "pigeonhole".

The pigeonholes were unmarked, each containing a pile of faded flimsiplast scrolls and the newer fiches of translations.

It was that kind of vacuous sentimentality which had allowed the powers of the jungle to grow strong that perverse broadmindedness which insisted on acknowledging every argument for the other side while discounting all the irrefutable evidence on its own side, which strained every nerve to make excuses for a murderer while it pigeonholed the sufferings of the victims who did not need any excuse.

The things that were neither bureaux, beds, bags, boxes, baskets nor bibelot-tables could usually be described as big, black, brown or buhl or, at a pinch, as being bedroom or boudoir furniture, and since every shelf, drawer and pigeonhole in every object was crammed full of newspaper-cuttings, letters and assorted souvenirs, the searchers soon found their heads, legs and backs aching with effort.

He reached across the stacks of money into a pigeonhole of his desk, and brought out a long newspaper column torn carefully down both sides.

Behind him is a wall of pigeonholed manuscripts and great canvas-covered ledgers going back eight hundred years.

She had known it the instant he had called her a spinster and then pigeonholed her as a woman who couldn’t hold a man.

She put Petey along the other wall where the teachers came to pick up their notes in the old pigeonholed wall shelf.

For a decade or so the whole damned government racked its collective brain to come up with an answer before they were overthrown, and then some pigeonholer remembered the Project.

All those pigeonholes and small drawers look like a good idea, but you file something away and never find it again.

They was all a bit different: doors, no doors, one drawer, two drawers, false bottom, built-in lockbox, pigeonholes, whatever folks wanted.

It had tall legs, a cupboard with doors, no pigeonholes, one drawer, not two.

The President’s desk proved to be a tall affair with numerous pigeonholes, and a fine view from one of the room’s two windows of the Potomac, and the blue hills of Virginia beyond, now fading as the sun set.

Lincoln sat on the edge of his desk, studying a sheaf of heavily marked maps, as Hay and Nicolay came and went on mysterious errands that usually involved taking a document from or inserting a document into one or another of the pigeonholes of Lincoln’s desk.

They found him sorting mail - standing on half his legs, rhythmically pigeonholing letters with those remaining.

But, when distilled down to its essence, her job consisted primarily of pigeonholing and compartmentalizing.