How To Use Drawers In A Sentence

Claim: Men's underwear is referred to as 'BVDs' because the term is an abbreviation of the phrase 'Boy's Ventilated Drawers.' New Urban Legends
I throw a suitcase on the bed and pop it open, and begin to stuff clothes into drawers and hang them in the wardrobe.
She could feel underclothes, linen drawers, silken chemise, a farthingale with its stiffened hoops. Ill Met By Moonlight
It has lockable drawers, leather-lined jewellery trays and a cheval mirror. Times, Sunday Times
The undergarments included stockings, petticoats, drawers, and a corset.

He ran the torch over the shelves cabinets table drawers but there were no more photographs and no obvious photo albums.
Get rid of the bulky boxes the shoes came in, pop them into homemade or store-bought shoe bags, and line them up in neat rows inside the drawers.
Then, going into one of the drawers, he took out an eyepiece fitted with a lens, a locking clamp, and a rock-hammer.
There were file cabinets scattered in all sides of the room, and also drawers, cabinets, and tall shelves.
For three years or so the squares lay open, and their sacred turf was trodden by the feet of working-class children, a sight to make dividend-drawers gnash their false teeth.
These are all displayed in giant bottom drawers. Times, Sunday Times
Turning over a new leaf How gratifying to learn that lots of us have disgusting salad drawers. Times, Sunday Times
When my nightstands started showing their age, I ripped pages out of an old atlas and refaced the drawers with maps. A Dollar Here, a Dollar There. But So What?
She ran downstairs as the raiders flung open drawers and sent furniture flying. The Sun
The fact that these three are expert drawers and painters doesn't hurt either.
There are his and her hanging lockers, drawers beneath the bed and a large adjoining head complete with tub and shower.
Eleven years on and the hurried portraits of Dave, Nick and Mat will this week be put up for auction at a sale which will either bewilder people, or get them hunting through drawers for that elusive bit of paper from the time they got the artist to draw them a picture. Damien Hirst doodles put up for auction
She slipped into a T-shirt and a pair of sweatpants she found in one of the drawers.
But what strack me first was that his seamit an 'his drawers werena there. My Man Sandy
I think we could all benefit from a fresh rummage in our drawers to give our wardrobes and our figures the uplift we deserve.
Some will be held up, magnified and singled out for attention later while others will line binders, file drawers, photoboxes, portfolios and remain hidden away.
Brazilian navy divers who hauled it to the surface found metal drawers containing ready meals for passengers still securely wedged inside. The Sun
Jim made another sweep of the room, opening the drawers on the writing desk.
She worked to the eighth month and it tricked her into thinking she was in control, that she could open and shut the drawers of the different compartments of her life at will.
Destiny put her stuff in one of the empty drawers in her dresser and sat back down at the table with tears in her eyes.
Accurate data on the dimensions of the materiel being containerized are needed for planning and determining the right size and number of drawers and the compartment sizes for the required module configuration.
Painted armoires provide a practical alternative to a traditional chest of drawers and can be used to store clothing as well as books, magazines, computer software and videotapes.
But he managed to climb on to a chest of drawers pushed under a window. The Sun
I spent most of the night rummaging through desk drawers and sifting through filing cabinets.
She laid the open atlas down on the table and began to dig through kitchen drawers.
Notebooks filled margin to margin with my tiny scrawl spill out-of the desk drawers.
He returned a short time later with the legs and drawers from a wooden desk, along with several cans of vegetables and some bottles of water from the secure room. Brian Keene
Nah, aw like a chap o 'that sooart, if he doesn't carry things too far: but when he begins to say' at he con build a haase as weel as a mason, an 'mak a kist o' drawers as weel as a joiner, or praich a sarmon as weel as th 'parson -- or playa bazzoon, or spetch a pair o' clogs better nor ony man breathin -- then, aw say, tak care an 'ha' nowt to do wi 'him. Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
Lucy was looking very sneaky as she rummaged through her drawers to find black leotards, a black turtleneck, and black gloves. E Is for Environment
The drawers were chock-full of invitations to dinner parties and benefits. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
But he managed to climb on to a chest of drawers pushed under a window. The Sun
Scent your drawers and wardrobe with your favourite aromas.
So from pantaloons and pantalettes to divided drawers, boxers, granny pants and bikinis, you can bet your choice of underwear will get a mention, and no doubt Hawthorne knows exactly what it says about you.
These include drawers with dovetails, chest sides rabbeted to receive front drawer supports, and the use of significantly thinner stock for drawer sides and bottoms.
Locked drawers and cabinets keep little hands safe, as do childproof safety covers for electrical outlets.
Not knowing how to respond, her teacher gave her a forced smile and reached in one of her drawers for a matchbook.
I had to hunt through all my drawers looking for the old photograph.
I walked in, announced I was quitting and was given enough time to type up my resignation, take my personal effects from my drawers, and was gone.
Upon examining the rest of the drawers, she realized it was more of a vanity than a desk.
This is not practical for the beads on the vertical edges of the drawers.
His services to his native country rendered his name endeared to hundreds of thousands of native Irish Catholics, men whom he himself looked on, and quite truly, as being powerless in Ireland either for good or evil, merely "hewers of wood and drawers of water". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
He stripped down to his drawers in measured motions that made her want to gnash her teeth with frustration, but when he finally shucked them, too, she caught her breath. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
It came to me this morning as I was hunting in my pant drawers dragging out pair after pair of tired old greying holey stretched trunks that what I really wanted was a much sexier choice.
I catch her going through my drawers and backpack, and she snoops on my little brother even more, searching his room and listening to his phone conversations.
His pants were "gallused" to their utmost capacity, leaving considerable space between his knees and the tops of his old brogan shoes; not having on "drawers," of course the skin was exposed. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
The figure from Dalí's "City of Drawers" was used on the cover of The Atrocity Exhibition in 1970 but for me the matching of Ernst's decalcomania masterpiece "The Eye of Silence" is far more successful. MIND MELD: The Most Memorable SF/F Book Covers
It is also recommended that bedside tables have a pair of wire cutters in the drawers. Times, Sunday Times
He started grabbing various things and slamming them against walls, bureau drawers, and desks, not caring what he was throwing.
But if I may be so bold, I can't help my drawers and potmen talking with your servants. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales
The metal frame holds drawers and shelves in teak and lacquered wood. Times, Sunday Times
Most be some phenomenal underdrawers, *makes note to try underwear in all foreign countries* Recent goings on
(laughter) but more often of the crŠme-de-citron, vair ‚ mail paon-coque or marshmallow series, which she, as bearer, used to en — dorse, adhesively, to her various payers-drawers who in most cases were identified by the timber papers as wellknown tetigists of the city and suburban. Finnegans Wake
The drawers slide in and out easily.
May the police now turn up on a whim and rootle around in our drawers? safeasmilk 2 October 2011 7:47AM The Guardian World News
The men demanded the keys to their new Skoda Octavia car, then locked them both in a downstairs room while they rifled through drawers.
Every year before Passover starts I super-clean my kitchen, taking everything out of the cabinets and drawers, wiping out the cabinets and drawers, washing whatever was in them, throwing out the old stuff, moving the "hametz" to the basement, and then re-organizing it all as I put it back in. Blog for Iowa
I needed drawers, and two electric burners that were safe when you switched them off.
Each chest has graduated drawers with solid, mahogany drawer fronts and original elaborate cast-brass pulls and escutcheons.
We moved all of our clean laundry into drawers and all the dirty laundry into the hamper.
When in transit, the legs unscrewed and were stored in one of the locking drawers.
Make the schlep easier for her with a lingerie bag she can stash in one of your drawers.
For instance, the undersides of the bottom drawers of a highboy will be darker than those of the upper drawers.
They searched all the drawers for the missing paper.
He loses interest in the drawers and continues to walk in a crouch position toward the middle of the desk and the chair.
From one of the drawers in her desk she pulled out a yellowing piece of paper.
Some chifforobes combine drawers and shelving, so that some items are on display while others are put away.
If he catches you going through his drawers there'll be the devil to pay!
She let the blanket fall down to the floor and she grabbed a hoodie and a pair of sweatpants from one of his drawers.
Right through the summer, Jeremy would stand at the top of a tall wooden ladder in those boxy, airless rooms in the Leeper building, wearing, I recall, comparatively tight-fitting shorts, while I did my best to read off the shelf lists (meaning drawers densely laden with cards), performing this function from as advantageously configured a vantage point below. The Earth Goddess
Master cabinetmakers fashioned a low chest of drawers called a commode, which differed from the bureau commode, or large table with drawers, that was crafted in the baroque period.
The judge isn't going to ransack the prosecutor's file drawers and hand over to the defense copies of all the evidence the judge thinks is exculpatory.
Whoever has journeyed in a dahabiya up the old river will remember this song of the water-drawers, with its accompaniment, in slow cadence, of creakings of wet wood. Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
With light-fingered nimbleness he checked all the contents, drawers and secret hiding places in the dressing-case, finding everything intact.
There were so many things stuffed in drawers and boxes that we didn't know about. Times, Sunday Times
The only clue she could point to was an inscription in pencil on the inside of one of the drawers: ‘This is promised to Daisy Fry on the decease of her Aunt Lill’.
The marquetry tops contain an evocative song sheet of the period and the doors open to reveal drawers.
I cleaned the drawers again, put the utensils in one and the pot holders in another.
They went through cabinets, shelves and drawers, pulling out professional looking documents and files.
It blended solid walnut, solid oak and neolith worktops with drawers and a kitchen island clad in iridescent copper. Times, Sunday Times
This panel tucked into the wall puts a lot of storage and communication help in a small space: three storage drawers, a bulletin board, mail cubbies, cell phone ledge, and a small cabinet.
One good-quality period chest of drawers and cheval mirrors will also enhance the modern bedroom. Times, Sunday Times
At midnight the Sandal came to them, and up they got, and having well whetted and set their razors, and been a-processioning, they clapped the tables over themselves, and like wire-drawers under their work fell to it as aforesaid. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
He bought me a big chest of drawers for my clothes, as a welcoming gesture.
Together the pair will sift through drawers, cupboards and storage places in a bid to turn your old junk, clutter and rubbish in hard cash for something special.
Clean out the refrigerator and leave it and all lockers and drawers propped open.
The clothes inside of the cellsthe stuffs, the silks, the laces; the elaborate delicate disguises that wait in trunks and drawers and closets, or bedrape and conceal human flesh. The Hotel
Continuing with the analogy of the file cabinet, a defragmenter is the helpful assistant that comes in and alphabetizes all your documents in the appropriate folders and file drawers for you. Lifehacker
I've asked the children to clean out their drawers.
A sideboard spread in pressed glass; a chest of drawers piled high with rough-dry family wash; a coal-range, and the smell and sound of simmering. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
Valerie opened one of the drawers and rummaged through its contents.
The display cabinets house socks, handkerchiefs, underwear, braces, belts - I am sure there are drawers and drawers of treasures beneath hiding away.
He leads her into one of the exam rooms and pulls out drawers holding culture swabs, speculums, guaiac cards, sterile lancets, cotton four-by-fours and gloves. Healer
Among the exceptions is an elegant dark wooden chest of drawers from Hitler's chancellery, filigreed with hundreds of swastika forms, which has been hung at a diagonal angle on a corner wall, and is further protected from possible Hitler admirers by a thin gauze panel. Germany's first Hitler exhibition opens in nervous Berlin museum
Continuing with the analogy of the file cabinet, a defragmenter is the helpful assistant that comes in and alphabetises all your documents in the appropriate folders and file drawers for you. Five Best Disk Defragmenters | Lifehacker Australia
By 1840, a locally financed firm of British machinists adopted water-powered machines, to make woolen and merino shirts and drawers like those of their native Leicester.
The cookroom had no end of bins, lockers and drawers to contain the variety of provisions and stores necessary to get up a dinner for the skipper and his guests, when he had any. Within The Enemy's Lines
But the mirror, mirror on the wall and on the bedside cabinet drawers is also telling us something about the poky size of rooms in new-builds. Times, Sunday Times
I wrote Drawers & Booths so that the reader couldn’t steer the ship, yet I didn’t want them to be mired down in plotless authorial ramblings. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Ara 13, part one
Thieves forced their way through a garage door, went upstairs and rifled through drawers in the main bedroom.
Their movements are clumsy, but they can open doors and remove objects from closets and drawers.
It occurred to Nick that if people were put in drawers like pyjamas and you could pick them out, that would be an excellent arrangement. Top Six Declarations of Familial Love
Along with the word lingerie used in place of undergarments, other terms changed to reflect the emphasis on seduction; the shift was first called a camisole and then simply known as a “slip” by this period, drawers turning into knickers and petticoats into “frillies “. Edwardians Unbuttoned | Edwardian Promenade
I stomped around the house shutting doors, slamming drawers, and picking items up off the floor. Christianity Today
When we were done, the bed was completely under the window, with a desk, dresser, and chest of drawers against the walls.
Donorlabeled cupboards filled with shallow drawers of shells line one side of the upstairs office area.
His desk drawers served mainly as a repository for napkins, bromides, and paper clips.
When Thalia is old enough she can’t wait to join the big-hearted letter writers and picture drawers that comprise Tanner’s new friends. jen Said, From The Heart | Her Bad Mother
The undergarments included stockings, petticoats, drawers, and a corset.
In the evening part of a chest of drawers and the top of a washhand-stand were found. The Wreck on the Andamans
The zinc-lined drawers held lumps of ice delivered weekly by the fishmonger.
She had disappeared into one of the bedrooms and was dragging clothes out of the drawers of a chest.
I just had on my corduroy shirt, and a pair of pants as thin as your underdrawers. I Walked The Line
All I had to do was pull out the drawers from her dresser and put them on the bed, and Sara took care of the rest.
The robbers forced the drawers from the two tills on the main counter and the drive-through and ran off with an undisclosed amount of money.
We cleaned out all the drawers
From one of the drawers in her desk she pulled out a yellowing piece of paper.
Shelving and drawers are made from recycled paperboard and industrial shipping tubes, and wastebaskets from corrugated cardboard.
In one of the drawers of my nightstand is the gift which Miss Elving so kindly bestowed upon me.
It belonged to a man in a sort of loose white garment and drawers, with a thin dark-bearded face; and Arthur, recollecting that the Spanish word _nino_ passed current for child in A Modern Telemachus
We hold on to mobile phones and chargers - man drawers are like mini mobile phone museums. The Sun
May the police now turn up on a whim and rootle around in our drawers? Invasion of the body scanners | Victoria Coren
The partitions at each side of the long drawers are made with five tenons that pierce the top of the case.
Among other knitting machines in modern use are the drawers machine; machines for hose and half-hose with apparatus for making the instep, finishing off the toe, splicing or thickening the heels, etc. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
He scowled at it, squatting above him on the chest of drawers. LOHENGRIN
But the shock of her discovery at the back of the chest of drawers is vivid still. Times, Sunday Times
The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw hat, and moccasins of raw-hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains. Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts
They always come in threes and fours, never enough to merit storing like items together in film cans or little drawers.
For work, one of the chest's ten drawers served as a desk.
Wood drawers with dovetail joints, which are standard with Kraftmaid, are stronger than the particleboard drawers with stapled joints that are standard on lower-priced stock cabinets.
Wooden knobs for the drawers can be bought very cheaply of any turner, or suitable brass knobs at any ironmonger's. Things To Make
I pulled a muscle in my back lifting some drawers.
I lost things, had things stolen, had people rummage through my belongings, my drawers.
It also has a new chapter on the history of drawers and knickers and one covering the chemise and petticoats.
I found a pair of plain breeches and a linen shirt in a chest of drawers, along with the necessary undergarments.
The top drawers are rounded on the front, as they are on others of Stahl's chests, and the backboard is exuberantly shaped to resemble breaking waves, typical of Soap Hollow chests.
Stylish storage for clothing and more, this colorful chifforobe includes drawers, shelves and a wardrobe cabinet.
From the drawers she pulled a soft flannel nightgown, with short, round, puffy sleeves and lace at the collars and hem.
In drawers under the divan bed were four large bags of herbal cannabis and five smaller bags.
The day we meet, she has already planned dinner that evening, and stocked up the vegetable drawers of her fridge with cauliflower, salad stuff and a couple of bulbs of fennel.
In a household with children or grandchildren, kitchen drawers and nightstands aren't ideal, either.
Rudich's pet, Jagger, stole all those socks, for example, by climbing up the back of the bureaus and squeezing his malleable body into the small opening at the rear of the drawers.
There was not the usual forgetfulness that comes with moving house; no chair forgotten, no scraps of paper overlooked, no pins or knick-knacks left abandoned behind a chest of drawers.
Large mahogany wardrobes and chests of drawers matched the bedsteads.
This bargain set includes a cot, chest of drawers and changing table for less than the price of a cot elsewhere. The Sun
Entering it, one finds microscopes and computers, a battered, overstuffed sofa and easy chair, and a row of cabinets with tiers of shallow drawers.
To fragrance your kitchen cabinets and drawers, place a good scent dabbed on a cotton ball into an inconspicuous comer.
There were exposed beams and a neat chest of drawers. Times, Sunday Times
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All my bits and pieces in my desk drawers were thrown out. Times, Sunday Times
On the drawers stands a board with coloured marbles for the game of solitaire, and I have only to open the drawer with the loose handle to bring out the dambrod. A Window in Thrums
He rummaged through several file drawers until he found two sheets of paper which he slid across the desk to me.
Finally one of them opened the clothespress and started scanning in there, and when he was finished, even started opening the drawers. Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
Looking again she realised there wasn't a mattress on the bed, just a thin bedspread covering a divan, with drawers underneath.
It is also recommended that bedside tables have a pair of wire cutters in the drawers. Times, Sunday Times
a chest of drawers all scratched underneath
My house is making me crazy, too, because I have never been much of a housekeeper, but it's slipping out of my control. the laundry from last week is not folded yet, so while there are clean undies, they aren't in drawers where my daughter can find them. Archive 2009-06-01
However, it is actually an ‘auriferous pyrite,’ a bona fide gold ore, but not gold per se, so it was relabeled, moved to the pyrite drawers, and not considered further.
Roger & Gallet Signature Mini Guest Soaps -- (tip: store the soap in linens closets, sock drawers, etc ... and freshen up the frowsty air!) Sur-le-champ - French Word-A-Day
I keep china and crystal in the left hand cupboard, table linen and baking utensils etc in four of the drawers, the kids' craft stuff in one drawer and the final one is filled with random kitchenalia, like rolls of plastic bags, string, jam pot labels etc. Archive 2007-11-01
And it largely worked because people instinctively recoil at the idea of nosy creeps like him rifling through other people's underwear drawers.
The undergarments included stockings, petticoats, drawers, and a corset.
First, check the drawers to make sure they contain dovetail joints, which complement the natural strength of the wood. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1017
The Nanakpanthis of the present day are roughly classified as Sikhs who have not adopted the term Singh, which is attached to the names of all true Sikhs; they also do not forbid smoking or insist on the adoption of the five _Kakkas_ or K's which are in theory the distinguishing marks of the Sikh; the _Kes_ or uncut hair and unshaven beard; the _Kachh_ or short drawers ending above the knee; the _Kara_ or iron bangle; the _Khanda_ or steel knife; and the _Kanga_ or comb. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
Or you can become really, really greedy, like any number of people we know, their desk drawers rustling with the crinkle of unshared sweets.
Place in closets, drawers, or closed containers to mothproof garments.
Dining room and kitchen cabinets and drawers are faced with predominantly gray and blue laminate.
They have drawers of wonderful insects, including beetles that look like drops of gold. Times, Sunday Times
The drawers have a depth of 16 inches.
The dovetails at both front and back of the new drawers have to match the original joints.
Behind two panels is a home entertainment center with storage compartments and drawers above and below.
These should be of the same construction and of the same timber as the small drawers in the fitted part of the bureau or in the secretaire drawer.
It fills one fitted cupboard and one chest of drawers in my bedroom. Times, Sunday Times
The undergarments included stockings, petticoats, drawers, and a corset.
These single-stitch machines knit a flat web which could be widened or narrowed for ‘shirts and drawers, ladies stockings, men's half-hose, gloves, mittens, and caps, all full-fashioned.’
This small chest of drawers is an ideal container.
Ben had swung into his saddle and pulled the buckskin around to follow his sons and the buckboard out of the yard when he heard it: a half strangled yelp followed swiftly by what was obviously drawers opening and then slamming shut.
Taking in his bookcases and desk drawers, I realized that there could be a treasure trove of escape items.
A chest of drawers, say, or an excitable Bouvier des Flandres. The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
There were exposed beams and a neat chest of drawers. Times, Sunday Times
The door swung inwards to crash against a chest of drawers behind it.
They kept their treasures in albums or collector boxes and stored them in cabinets and drawers.
The items included a tallboy at £3,400, a chest of two short and three long drawers at £1, 950, and a small blanket chest at £1, 250.
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The company held a "Summer Sizzler" sale, and throughout the fall knocked half off all premium upgrades, such as dovetailed maple drawers, glazing, or distressing. StarTribune.com rss feed
Linen feels quite wet if it is left unused in the _almirah_, or chest of drawers, for a week. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
There were two dressers with drawers matching the same mahogany of the bed and a little cot in one corner set up for her.
These single-stitch machines knit a flat web which could be widened or narrowed for ‘shirts and drawers, ladies stockings, men's half-hose, gloves, mittens, and caps, all full-fashioned.’
After ordering the cook to drive on a couple of miles, Tommie waited on the north bank, listening with keen delight to the profanity of the cowboys in their long underdrawers as they drove that herd across the Red River sand bars. THE AMERICAN WEST
The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw-hat and moccasins of raw hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
The units fit at the back of the counter moving up and down behind drawers and shelves. Times, Sunday Times
Add your favourite fragrant herb or potpourri to little sachets, made from cotton or other coarsely woven material, and place them in the drawers.
He had always been intrigued by all types of locks and fasteners and hardware, practicing at home by opening the drawers, closets, and pantries of his house at will, using a small buttonhook. The Secret Life of Houdini
I need a chest of drawers, or a storage chest; just a smallish one, because my clothes are taking over the bedroom floor.
I stomped around the house shutting doors, slamming drawers, and picking items up off the floor. Christianity Today
His old hunting leathers would be best, and some plain shirts and underdrawers. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR

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