drawers

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He had drawers full of sketches but little finished work.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

As a housemate, he was catastrophic—overturning wastebaskets, ransacking drawers and drenching manuscripts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Instead of shelves of alcohol, apothecary drawers stocked with ingredients like goji berries and angelica root line the walls, permeating the room with their scent.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

There were long-out-of-date policies, receipts, family photographs, work mementos and then, undetected at the back of one of the steel grey drawers, was a brown envelope marked 'Everton: Season Ticket Sales'.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

Tansy pulled the small girl’s skirttails free of her drawers and settled her skirts for her.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck