Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: drawer
IPA transcription: [dɹ'ɔɹ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: drawer
    Meaning: a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
Usage examples
  • The general rose decays; But this, in lady's drawer, Makes summer when the lady lies In ceaseless rosemary.
  • So saying, he took the ring from one drawer, and from another a bottle, from which he poured something into a crystal cup.
  • Don't forget to write to the company about the gas meter, and your good socks are in the top drawer. I will write to-morrow.
  • We used to stitch everything at home in those days--everything; and we had what we called a "bottom drawer" to store them in.
  • As soon as a girl passed her fifteenth birthday, she began to sew for the "bottom drawer." But all those things change so, I dare say it's different now.'
  • It made her think of things which she tried to forget, and to look into a little drawer at something soft and brown that lay in a curl there, wrapped in paper.
  • Seeing her husband, she dropped her hands into the drawer of the bureau as though looking for something, and only looked round at him when he had come quite up to her.
  • Lady Juliana glanced over the first line of the letter, then looked at the signature, resolved to read the rest as soon as she should have time to answer it; and in the meantime tossed it into a drawer, amongst old visiting cards and unpaid bills.
  • The copy was in the table drawer, and while my right hand was apparently engaged in manipulating the refractory light, and my voice was laughingly calling down maledictions upon the electric lighting company for its wretched service, my left hand was occupied with the busiest effort of its career in substituting the spurious tiara for the other."