How to Use cupboard in a Sentence

cupboard

noun
  • Our cupboards will be all set for a while.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Store these in a cupboard or pantry.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Chances are, there is rice in the cupboard.
    — Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
  • Why not re-stock the cupboard and try to land a late first-round pick?
    — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Have an aversion to cilantro or don’t have sumac in your cupboard?
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Because right now, the cupboard is bare.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • For a start, go to your kitchen cupboard and throw away all your pepper.
    — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The cupboard door is closing again.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • My son reminds me to pick my clothes up off the floor and shut the kitchen cupboard doors.
    — Lyz Lenz, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The cupboard is not bare for the Lakers, though.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • No word on if the cupboard under the stairs was a selling point.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2019
  • Does all the worry in the cupboards of your mind belong there?
    — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Things like the weighted slide of a drawer and swing of a cupboard.
    — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Stand the box upright so the lid opens outward like a cupboard door.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The cupboards were nearly bare.
    — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • No word on whether the cupboard under the stairs was a selling point.
    — Phillip Molnar, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
  • No more bending down to get something out from the back of the cupboard.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 17 June 2020
  • Abraham took two ramen packs out of the cupboard and crunched them up.
    — J. M. Holmes, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • Was it stashed at the back of some cupboard or put to use as a paperweight?
    — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • And, needless to say, no Cups have been added to the cupboard.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
  • There are one million tins of sardines in the cupboard.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The few items of pottery in the kitchen cupboards were handmade.
    — Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
  • Neither of them could work in the fields, and their cupboard ran empty.
    — Amy Maxmen, Scientific American, 13 May 2021
  • Their cupboard isn’t bare, but their prospect pool doesn’t have many high-end guys left as chips for a trade.
    — Joe Smith, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There’s a walk-in pantry in addition to cupboard and counter space.
    — Fox News, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Acorns are then hammered into the holes, the cupboard doors left wide open.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Leave them in a cupboard, checking every few days.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The victim was found in a cupboard in his camper van and in good health, police said.
    — Caroline Guthrie, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Not with her husband, who’s not even asking her to hide the beast in the cupboard.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Stepan Dmitrievich grabbed two glasses from the cupboard and filled them to the brim.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018

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