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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : pij-uhn-hohl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪdʒ ənˌhoʊl



Definition of pigeonhole

  • noun compartment
  • verb categorize; shelve
Example sentences :
  • He said coolly to the official who aroused him, 'Go to pigeonhole No.
  • Extract from : « How to Succeed » by Orison Swett Marden
  • And reaching behind him into a pigeonhole he extracted an envelope, which he passed to me.
  • Extract from : « Desert Dust » by Edwin L. Sabin
  • He belongs to no class, evades the label, and fits into no pigeonhole.
  • Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 » by Elbert Hubbard
  • I could make a square or pigeonhole corner or lay out a brick footing.
  • Extract from : « One Way Out » by William Carleton
  • But he went to his desk, and drew a long sheet of paper from a pigeonhole.
  • Extract from : « The Crisis, Complete » by Winston Churchill
  • The committee may pigeonhole it and not report it, or may report it too late for action by the body.
  • Extract from : « Citizenship » by Emma Guy Cromwell
  • A category of pure reason is suspiciously like a pigeonhole.
  • Extract from : « German philosophy and politics » by John Dewey
  • The President tucked them into a pigeonhole of his desk without comment.
  • Extract from : « Abraham Lincoln » by William Eleroy Curtis
  • He pulled papers from the pigeonhole and spread them on the desk top.
  • Extract from : « The Lone Ranger Rides » by Fran Striker
  • A bill to erect a monument to him lies now rotting in some pigeonhole in Congress.
  • Extract from : « Historic Fredericksburg » by John T. Goolrick

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