Sentence examples for drawer locked from inspiring English sources

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When I would steal a copper cent out of my mother's pocketbook I would feel a dreadful, suffocating sinking in my bad heart, and for days and nights afterwards long after I had eaten the chocolate mousse the copper cent would haunt me and haunt me, and oh, how I wished it back in that pocketbook with the clasp shut tight and the bureau drawer locked!

When I would steal a copper cent out of my mother's pocketbook I would feel a dreadful, suffocating sinking in my bad heart, and for days and nights afterwards — long after I had eaten the chocolate mousse — the copper cent would haunt me and haunt me, and oh, how I wished it back in that pocketbook with the clasp shut tight and the bureau drawer locked!

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Spong has built a cosy shed out of found bits of wooden furniture; from it you can watch a film of this eccentric edifice set up in a woodland clearing, where its creator seems to be taking leave of it fondly, as he stashes his tools in a drawer, locks up and sadly walks away, with a last look back, to a soundtrack of lush violins.

Dark wood entertainment center, 68″H x 50″W x 17″D, $150; 4-drawer locking lateral file, 53"H x 42"W x 19.5 D, in great shape, $400.

Dark wood entertainment center, 68″H x 50″W x 17″D, $150; 4-drawer locking lateral file, 53″H x 42″W x 19.5″D, in great shape, $400.

One study found that half of those who survived delayed before trying to escape, making phone calls, tidying things into drawers, locking their office door, going to the toilet, completing emails, shutting down their computer, changing their shoes.

If Manfred has any spine in the first great test as a commissioner he will take tuck the Rose redemption files deep in the cabinet, slam the drawer, lock it up and throw away the key.

Skinner is able to convince Mulder that he would not have forced his own drawer lock open and hence could not have been the murderer.

Attach cabinet, door, and drawer locks to keep your toddler from catching fingers in tight spots.

There were matching valences on my windows, and I had a wooden rolltop desk, with a drawer that locked and held my secrets, including dirty letters that I couldn't at the time translate from a German boy with whom I'd had a minor romance at summer music camp.

However, one of the drawers is locked, we have no key and our attempts to pick it have been unsuccessful.

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