cubbyhole

One classmate decided it’d be fun to raid my cubbyhole, fish out my report card, read it aloud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Previosly voted Wales' favourite word, Cwtch means hug or cuddle - however it's second meaning is a cubbyhole or cupboard; a small space in which to store things safely.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2024

“I don’t begrudge anyone retiring,” longtime regular Daniel Eiben said Sept. 15, poking his head into Yoshimura’s cluttered cubbyhole of an office on the store’s penultimate day in business.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

In a cubbyhole beneath an attic sat a radio room complete with desks, where detainees tuned in nightly to the BBC.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022

Through the steamy panes of the glassed- in cubbyhole that served as the coaches’ office, they could see Ulbrickson and Bolles hunched over a desk in their flannel suits, studying a piece of paper.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Report cards weren’t handed out; they were slotted into our personal cubbyholes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

By contrast, “Untitled” from 1998 is a grid of black cubbyholes, each one containing a found treasure: a baby doll’s head, a Japanese daruma doll, a plastic apple, the head of the Red Power Ranger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2023

Caroline MacKinnon fills a set of wooden cubbyholes with shells, feathers and seed pods as well as ceramic discs of her own making.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023

Different passes allow different levels of access to halls, bars, committee rooms and cubbyholes within the Victorian-age premises.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

But just this side of the door, there's a hive of cubbyholes where the more important teachers've got their own desks.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell