Example sentences for: cabinets

How can you use “cabinets” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The main street, Queen Street, pays tribute to the Anglo-Saxon myth with its clock tower, white clapboard and red-brick houses, the grand Prince of Wales Hotel, tea shops serving buns and buttered scones, and the lovingly restored Niagara Apothecary (1866) displaying old-fashioned medicine jars in walnut cabinets under ornamental crystal gaslights.

  • A small museum explains the known history of the Amerindian races; it has a number of cabinets holding artifacts, as well as a skeleton, still in the traditional fetal burial position.

  • I remember George Hubbard showing me the filing cabinets in his New York apartment, crammed with lists of personal names like Mollie Panter-Downes and Romeo Yench .

  • Wonderment came to be perceived as a kind of middle state between ignorance and knowledge, and wonder cabinets were theaters of the marvelous, museums of accumulated curiosities, proving God's ingenuity.

  • In a sprightly New York Times essay last year about collecting, Michael Kimmelman noted that in Germany during the 16 th century there proliferated Kunst- und Wunderkammern , "art and wonder cabinets" containing curiosities of all kinds:


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