In pigeonholes and shelves, which filled the whole place up, lay a collection of the most varied kind of bric-a-brac.
Filled with papers, as these pigeonholes were, it closely resembled an overworked post office.
Another point was that the sloppy-looking pigeonholes were all at one end of the desk.
Stating their doctrine of transmigration in plain language: God sits at his desk in Heaven, with a great lot of pigeonholes before him, in each one of which is a soul in a state of coma.
I stares at a row of empty pigeonholes for a solid hour after that, not doin' a blamed thing but race my thinkin' gears tryin' to find out where I was at.
Didn't I see you stowin' that away in one of your desk pigeonholes yesterday?
Inside also were pigeonholes of the best quality, like in the Netiquette.
He waved his hand toward the pigeonholes behind him, where rows upon rows of film were stored for future use on the program.
He found it only after he had somewhat explored the different small drawers and pigeonholes of the desk, drawers and pigeonholes which were, to his surprise, all in astonishing order for Alix.
He pigeonholes these and then does one of two things--dismisses the whole matter from his mind or writes the proper sort of letter and mails it.
There are fragmentary sketches of him in encyclopaedias and biographical dictionaries, and several pigeonholes in the State Department are filled with musty documents written by him when abroad in his country's diplomatic service.
It has rested undisturbed in the pigeonholes of the State Department for nearly a century, and if published in connection with a brief memoir of the poet would prove a valuable addition to our annals.
The inner door was open--the flashlight's ray was flooding a nest of pigeonholes and little drawers.
This done, he tucked away the packages of banknotes, some into his pockets and some inside his shirt; and then quickly ransacked the interior of the safe, flauntingly spilling the contents of drawers and pigeonholes out upon the floor.
The pigeonholes were crammed with papers, as, presumably, too, were the drawers.
Some people prefer to have single pigeonholes and to arrange them in double sections by making each alternate perpendicular board project several inches beyond the front edge of the horizontal shelf.
Because a hen pigeon often lays again and begins to incubate before a pair of young are ready to leave the nest, it is usual to arrange the pigeonholes in pairs.
There were small drawers inside, and a row of pigeonholes to either side of a central compartment that was also locked by a key.
He put his hand in the pigeonholes and drew out several bundles of letters.
If the pigeonholes are properly labeled, one can ultimately locate those that contain the matter he is seeking if he knows the name that has been applied to it.
So we had a postmistress and a post office, with its tiers of empty, homemade pigeonholes ready to receive the mail.
One of the handy men around the place sawed boards and made an extra table with rows of pigeonholes on it, and we installed this in the back end of the print shop for the heavy land-office business.
Clemens could think of no good way to improve upon it, so this effort too was consigned to the penal colony, a set of pigeonholes kept in his study.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pigeonholes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bibliography; catalog; file; pigeonhole
