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Drawer in sentence

102 examples of Drawer in a sentence

Your time would be better spent sorting your sock drawer.
Martial Artist Gary Daniels is a top drawer attorney who comes home one day to find his family taken hostage by a bunch of thugs.
The photography and acting are bottom drawer, the direction is listless and unimaginative, and writing is rarely sly (or at least it's hard to get any good dialogue out of these actors' mouths).
The cast was top drawer, and their acting was as good as it gets.
If the gun is not back in his drawer, then Ryan Gosling never retrieves it and Hopkins gets away, scott free.
The UN Watercourses Convention must not become just another ignored international agreement, filed away in a drawer.
But his report has been left in a drawer ever since.
Given the frustrating lack of progress, it would be easy to yield to pessimism and apathy – to lock the two-state solution in a drawer and throw away the key.
And at the bottom of their fidelity there was a superstitious terror, a fear lest the million of the denier might suddenly melt away if they were to realize it and to put it in a drawer.
You gave yourself a terrible wound, and it has melted away in that dog's labour, while mine, which has not stirred from my drawer, still keeps me comfortably doing nothing, as it will keep my grandchildren's children."
One day when, in view of her departure, she was tidying a drawer, something pricked her finger.
She heard Charles on the stairs; threw the gold to the back of her drawer, and took out the key.
From respect, or from a sort of sensuality that made him carry on his investigations slowly, Charles had not yet opened the secret drawer of a rosewood desk which Emma had generally used.
'Will you swear to me,' said Madame de Renal solemnly, 'never to quarrel with the Governor of the Poorhouse over these letters?''Quarrel or no quarrel, I can take the foundlings away from him; but,' he continued, furiously, 'I want those letters this instant; where are they?''In a drawer in my desk; but you may be certain, I shall not give you the key of it.'
The man in black had half risen and was impatiently seeking for a letter in the drawer of his table of firwood which opened with a creak.
What would have been the irritation to her pride if little Tanbeau, who had appointed himself a voluntary spy upon Julien's actions, had been able to tell her that all these letters, with their seals unbroken, were flung pell-mell into Julien's drawer!
She entered the library as the porter left it; the letter was still lying on the edge of the table; Julien, busily engaged in writing, had not placed it in his drawer.
And, rising with fury, she opened the drawer of Julien's table, which stood a few feet away from her.
Once in his room, he quickly pulled open the drawer of his writing desk, everything in it was very tidy but in his agitation he was unable to find the identification documents he was looking for straight away.
He had a list of these cases here in the drawer - here he would tap on one or other of the drawers in his desk - but could, unfortunately, not show them to K. as they dealt with official secrets.
In the drawer there, for instance, I've got my father's notes, which I don't show to anyone.
So he had the pictures taken to his office and locked them in the lowest drawer of his desk so that he could at least keep them safe from the deputy director's view for the next few days.
His first look was at the fire, which had been recently supplied with fuel; he then drew open a small drawer of the table, and looked a little alarmed at finding it empty.
'Dear sister,' says he, 'I am very lazy; do step to my closet and fetch my flute; it lies in such a drawer,' naming a place where he was sure it was not, that she might be a little while a-looking for it.
I told him I would, and I went into my chamber and fetched him a little private drawer, where I had about six guineas more, and some silver, and threw it all down upon the bed, and told him there was all my wealth, honestly to a shilling.
He looked a little at it, but did not tell it, and huddled it all into the drawer again, and then reaching his pocket, pulled out a key, and bade me open a little walnut-tree box he had upon the table, and bring him such a drawer, which I did.
In which drawer there was a great deal of money in gold, I believe near two hundred guineas, but I knew not how much.
He took the drawer, and taking my hand, made me put it in and take a whole handful.
I was backward at that, but he held my hand hard in his hand, and put it into the drawer, and made me take out as many guineas almost as I could well take up at once.
When I had done so, he made me put them into my lap, and took my little drawer, and poured out all my money among his, and bade me get me gone, and carry it all home into my own chamber.
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