Examples of cupboard

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The shelving unit enables foodstuffs to be picked out without opening cupboards and reaching over.
There are certain things that you learn about people when you sleep in their beds, eat from their cupboards, commiserate with their family and friends.
The extraction of expensively heated warm air from the laboratory through fume cupboards is another area of concern.
The problem of fume cupboards is a sensitive area and it may be argued that health and safety considerations are in conflict with energy efficiency.
The stairs were within locked enclosures or cupboards respectively.
The aura of opulence had gone: chaises-longues and chandeliers had given way to desks and cupboards.
With the key of patronage we may tidy cupboards: it will not let us into the church.
Topical corticosteroids often raise concerns and confusion about their dosage and their side effects, and patients can end up with cupboards full of preparations.
I wasn't getting rid of my possessions, merely hiding them in cupboards.
When this is done the procedure rarely fails, though the choice of illumination can be delicate in some environments, particularly growth cupboards.
Not only does it increase building fabric losses, but it also increases losses through fume cupboards and open windows.
The parallel use of two different concentrations of the same drug is a questionable practice, in particular as they were kept in the same cupboard.
A longstanding staple in the cupboard of counterintuitive knowledge has been that one's confidence in judgment has no relation to one's accuracy.
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