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Example sentences for "cubby"

Lexicographically close words:
cuarta; cuarto; cuartos; cuatro; cub; cubbyhole; cube; cubeb; cubebs; cubed
  1. The bait is placed back in the cubby and may be either bird, rabbit or fish.

  2. Victor Baited and Caught at Cubby Set There To Stay-In A Newhouse Mountain Lion Securely Caught Beaver, Trap and Trapper Large Otter Caught in No.

  3. There are a great many caught by making a cubby or enclosure where they cross or frequent in search of birds, rabbits, etc.

  4. If a rock or old log is laying where the cubby is to be built it can be used for one side.

  5. Down by Cubby Hollow I found a wood-thrush's nest in a slender swamp-maple, about fifteen feet from the ground.

  6. I have often heard the scattered, frightened families called together after a day of hard shooting; and once, in the old pasture to the north of Cubby Hollow, I saw the bevy assemble.

  7. The pine barrens, and especially certain pine clumps along Cohansey Creek and at the head of Cubby Hollow, used to be famous crow-roosts.

  8. When he had finished, he tossed the cup into the basket, reached and dimmed the cubby lights and kicked off his boots.

  9. He ducked back into the crew cubby and stripped his coveralls.

  10. The blankets they had spread out on the floor of the cubby hole and they found that the tarpaulin made a mighty warm protective covering, keeping out the damp sea air in fine style.

  11. Juarez got up and glided back into the cubby hole to tell Tom the good news.

  12. The place where the boys were to sleep was a sort of cubby hole in the bow of the boat, that was roofed over and where anchor chains and other junk was sometimes kept.

  13. Cubby seemed moved by this question, and eyed the speaker suspiciously and fearfully.

  14. Jamie has owre muckle to do, and tauld us to gang to Cubby Grindstane," said the godly elder.

  15. Cubby to himself, when Carey went out, "what am I to do?

  16. At four o'clock, Elder Willison, John Monilaws, and Carey, went to the house of Cubby Grindstane.

  17. Carey confessed he thought the conduct of Cubby very suspicious, and, with a knowing look, hinted that it had been long his intention to endeavour to ascertain something more of the old cobbler than the people of Newabbey yet knew.

  18. Stepping forward, Cubby watched the voice of the auctioneer.

  19. He followed close behind, and was surprised to find that Cubby drove straight up to the house of the cashier of the principal bank of the town.

  20. The greatest terror was evinced by Cubby on being let free from the powerful grasp of Carey.

  21. A groan was all the answer Cubby could give; for denying the money was now out of the question.

  22. Cubby turned up his eyes and his hands to heaven.

  23. They went into a leetle sort of a cubby house with glass winders, and sot down to see the rest dance.

  24. She thought of Cubby and immediately recoiled from the thought.

  25. She would not let herself believe it was Cubby or any other member of Falco’s gang.

  26. Bolton’s kids winding up as the patients if Cubby would let them.

  27. Nat guessed that the “cubby hole” referred to and in which Minory had evidently been hidden while he vainly searched the boat for him, was used in old Israel’s illicit trade for the convenient and safe hiding of the opium he smuggled.

  28. It was a good thing we had that little cubby hole up in the bow to stow you in, though, or your scheme might hev fallen through.

  29. Anita had secured the weapon and the cloak and slipped away to my cubby without being observed.

  30. She swaggered out upon the deck, waved at the brigand, and banged my cubby door in my face.

  31. The cubby room was small, not much over six feet wide, and twelve feet long.

  32. The control room was here, a small cubby of levers and banks of dial-faces.

  33. Move along," said he, "and let me stand beside you in the cubby while I chew my cud.

  34. They are fighting," said she, "to see which one shall stand in the cubby with me and chew his cud.

  35. On a little bed of boughs I set the trap just inside the opening of the cubby and cover it lightly with tips of evergreen.

  36. We build a bait pen of brush or old logs, roofing it over, and set the trap just at the entrance in such a way that Mr. Bear must step in it in order to get into the pen or cubby where the bait is staked at the rear.

  37. His store is a rusty warehouse, low and musty, piled full of boxes of soap and candles and dried fish, with a little glass cubby in one corner, where a thin clerk sits at a high desk, like a spider in his web.

  38. Perhaps he is a spider, for the cubby is swarming with flies, whose hum is the only noise of traffic; the glass of the window-sash has not been washed since it was put in apparently.

  39. Then they played "cubby house"--not fifty feet from the cabin, with a hushed but guilty satisfaction.

  40. We can play cubby house in the stone heap," whispered Florry.

  41. A man stood in the doorway of a lighted little cubby behind the bars.

  42. Beyond the cubby doorway was the open darkness within the wall.

  43. But from the cubby doorway, I saw that the guard was gone!

  44. The cubby room was turning dark, was roaring.

  45. Alan and I found ourselves backed together, panting in the small confines of a circular cubby with an arching dome close over us.

  46. I like to be out on deck in bad weather and not penned up in a cubby hole.

  47. The old sailor uttered a sharp exclamation as he emerged from the cubby hole in which he had been sleeping and gazed about him.

  48. He was a regular Cubby boy--always laughing and singing, ready for mischief, but still more ready to do anyone a good turn.

  49. It was barely four feet wide: a low railing, handles with which to cling, and a tiny hooded cubby in front, with banks of controls.

  50. Through the cubby window-ovals I could see instrument panels.

  51. But in the dim blue glow of the cubby I caught the look in his eyes.

  52. Through the dome windows across the deck from the cubby the rocks of the Lunar landscape were visible.

  53. Occasionally some of the men would come to our cubby windows to peer in at us curiously.

  54. I drew her back through the cubby doorway where we would be more secluded.

  55. In a corner of the room a small ladder led through a ceiling trap to the cubby roof.

  56. Potan had dismissed his men from his cubby so as to be alone with us.

  57. The little hooded cubby there was the control room.

  58. With my thoughts roving, we had been standing quietly at the cubby door-oval for perhaps fifteen minutes.

  59. I turned toward one of the cubby windows; she said sweetly: "Are you in charge of this room?

  60. I dressed, left our cubby and wandered out into the corridor of the main building.

  61. The four-foot space up here between the cubby roof and the overhead dome went black.

  62. We stayed in the cubby a few moments, whispering--trying to plan.

  63. A thirty-foot skeleton tower stood on the deck near us, with a spiral ladder leading up to a small square steel cubby at the top.

  64. Let them try their hardest now if they like, but we 'll find our own cubby hole and light our fire somewhere else.

  65. Lawd, I wunda--" until we began to skirt Cubby Hollow, when he suddenly brought himself up with a snap.

  66. On the south side of the clump of pines beyond Cubby Hollow is a pile of decaying rails where I have watched the swifts, and they me, for so many seasons that I fancy they know me.

  67. Then Halstead edged around until he made sure that there was another little cubby under the stern-sheets of the launch.

  68. Ted laid his book down, shot a swift, uncertain glance at the cubby in which Pedro lay, then rose uncertainly.

  69. Just as Pedro reached the cubby Tom scrambled up on the beach.

  70. Ef Ah done thought Ah could trust yo' Ah'd tuhn in in dat forrad cubby mahself," declared the negro.

  71. The cubby was silent and dim, with only a tiny spotlight where Waters was working, and a glow upon his table where his recent messages from Earth were filed.

  72. We passed them, headed in to where the tunnel narrowed again and there were now occasional cubby entrances to underground dwellings.

  73. I could see in the mirror-image, behind Dud's head the outlines of the little public cubby from which he was calling.

  74. The black metal cubby walls seemed to melt like phantoms in a dream.

  75. Grantline and I left the turret, heading along the catwalk under the glassite dome toward the helio cubby where the rotund, middle-aged Waters was in charge.

  76. I could see them now plainly from the helio cubby windows, great shafts of radiance sweeping the firmament.


  77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cubby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alcove; asylum; bay; cache; concealment; corner; cove; cover; covert; cranny; cubbyhole; cubicle; den; dugout; foxhole; hideout; hiding; hole; lair; niche; nook; pigeonhole; pinch; playhouse; recess; refuge; retreat; sanctuary; snuggery; stash