How to Use foldout in a Sentence

foldout

noun
  • The book includes special maps in the form of foldouts.
  • The book includes foldout maps.
  • It can be set up while on the go with a quick two-step foldout process.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Marjorie sat on her bed — a mattress atop a foldout couch — and talked on the phone to a friend.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The student and the teacher faced each other on plain black foldout chairs.
    — Sarah Grant, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
  • To save money, Schumer slept in the living room, on a foldout couch.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Lloyd lay on his side on a foldout table, and Dez got to work with a buzzing tattoo pen.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Then there are MagSafe charging stands, trays, and foldout stations.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
  • He was ticked off enough to stick an umbrella across his foldout meal tray to keep from any more reclining going on.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Edd Gumban sleeps on a foldout bed in an office in central Manila.
    — Time, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Thirteen different dwellings, a few not much more than a room with a spare foldout couch or futon, and none were dependable.
    — Stephanie Land, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
  • When Pitman started in repo, orders arrived by fax; agents used foldout maps.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Last weekend, Oksana Stus laid a carton of eggs onto a foldout table.
    — Elissa Miolene, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2022
  • By lunchtime the next day, there were thousands of sandwiches made by assembly line at a long foldout cafeteria table.
    — Jane Black, Smithsonian, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The 435’s open bow and foldout stern, both with generous lounge seating, turn it in an all-weather cruiser.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Both the rear cockpit, with its foldout bulwarks, and the sundeck offer exceptional space.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Spoerri then printed the text as a fifty-three-page booklet accompanied by a foldout version of the map, and an index.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Also in the rear are foldout tables, a mini fridge, and high-tech armrests meant to regulate your temperature.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The lower deck is made up of a beach club area with a gym and an open garden space that can be transformed into a spacious sunbathing lounge via foldout terraces on either side.
    — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 18 May 2022
  • Babonneau and Camus would switch off weeks sleeping in the bedroom, the other resigning himself to the hard foldout couch in the kitchen.
    — Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The official foldout map, showing locations of the exhibits, seems designed to confuse.
    — Elaine Sciolino, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The three big foldout posters are even chic enough for design snobs to consider hanging on a nursery wall, once the matching stickers have been (carefully) stuck.
    — Catherine Hong, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • The foldout included with the album showcased a panorama of the entire intersection.
    — Justine Browning, EW.com, 18 July 2022
  • This solar generator comes with a foldout solar panel that can quickly charge the generator.
    — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • So the White House decided to forgo the main doorway in favor of a smaller exit in the belly of the aircraft equipped with its own foldout stairs.
    — Mark Landler and Jane Perlez, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2016
  • There is an ominous and poetic exploration of the giant squid that doesn’t even reveal the animal until a dramatic foldout on the final page.
    — Amanda Baker, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Jay Anna Brown sat at the back behind a foldout table displaying stacks of campaign literature.
    — Priscella Vegastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • Beaty, sitting at a foldout table in the corner of Iowa State’s weight room, wasn’t focused much on hypotheticals and outlooks.
    — Jesse Newell, kansascity, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Inside the startups’ boxes, large foldout sheets of instructions are giving way to less-clinical presentations.
    — Katie Deighton, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Her furniture and appliances — a foldout sofa, the kitchenette, a fridge speckled with magnets and reminder notes — hang over the white and gray of the pediatric intensive-care unit.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024

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