Sentence examples for drawer from inspiring English sources

The word "drawer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun or a verb. It usually refers to a part of a piece of furniture with compartments, but it can also refer to the motion of pulling something out of a storage space. Example: I opened the drawer and found my pair of scissors.

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drawer

noun

An op topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.

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It was a metallurgist called Harry Brearley who made the breakthrough, and in doing so revolutionised every cutlery drawer in the world.

The block-letter handwriting bears some similarities and crucially Balestrero misspells the word "drawer" as "draw" – the same mistake as the robber made.

Amanda was still far from convinced that she would ever use the material I was filming, and it was beginning to look like this was going to end up as a video diary that would remain locked in her drawer.

He talks frequently about the privations of his early years: he slept in a drawer as a baby because his parents couldn't afford a cot, and his family was forced to travel round the country looking for work, before finally emigrating to South Africa.

However, an FBI search of the general's house in April 2013 found the notebooks in an unlocked drawer in his study.

Whether she was writing a speech or tidying a drawer, it had her total concentration.

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It used to be relatively rich and pushy parents who were expected to demand new schools in England, not top-drawer teachers pulling up standards for children who lack middle-class clout.

This was hotly denied by the DLP, anxious to avoid a rift with China.In this section This time it will all be different Party time Liberation politics Sweet success ReprintsBarbados is one of the Caribbean's oldest and most stable democracies, consistently getting top-drawer rankings for its political and civil liberties.

Politicians close to the prime minister gush about how a shotgun marriage has blossomed into true romance, with Mr Clegg and Mr Cameron learning that they have more in common every day.In fact, the idea of Mr Clegg as a map re-drawer is part of what makes some Lib Dems sceptical about him.

He has heard too many horror stories about the months, even years, taken to scan the drawer-fulls of documents in offices, so they may be stored on some remote file server in digital form.

He kept his early efforts in a table-drawer where he found them later, the paper gnawed by cockroaches.

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