How to Use cubicle in a Sentence

cubicle

noun
  • The millionaire next door could very well be a co-worker sitting in the next cubicle.
    Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The software developer’s new home would be where his cubicle once was.
    Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • We were taken through some tunnels and eventually into a room filled with cubicles, desks.
    Garrett M. Graff, Time, 11 Sep. 2019
  • There, balladeers could sing protest songs, women could smoke hookah next to men, and cubicles provided space where the devout could retire to pray.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The search among the different cosmetic company cubicles/stations did not go well.
    John Horgan, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
  • No longer confined to a cubicle, Jones works out of his home studio that is close enough to the Everglades that there is a black bear who rummages through his trash.
    Roger Downing, ExpressNews.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Whenever an employee has a birthday, his or her cubicle is decorated with balloons.
    Gustavo Solis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Whenever an employee has a birthday, someone decorates their cubicle with balloons.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Its offices, with open cubicles and windows that frame the pale California sky or let workers peer into the factory on the main floor, lack Nestlé branding.
    CNN, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Knightley’s Katharine Gun is a low-level cubicle jockey, liberal in politics, apolitical at her job.
    Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The return to the cubicle has made some men dust off their tie rack.
    Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 2 June 2021
  • But don’t be too quick to conclude things are going back to the days of 9 to 5 in the old cubicle.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The cubicle is small and bathed in white, shadow-free light.
    Choire Sicha, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • The once-sharp lines of what a worker can and cannot wear inside the cubicle have blurred.
    Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Frank: David and I sit right across from each other in the same low-walled cubicle.
    Amelia Schonbek, Curbed, 29 Dec. 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean the comeback of the cubicle, FT promises.
    Byjane Thier, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • But his nurse, Celia Grace, emerges from the glass cubicle with a message from him.
    Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The bleachers are folded along the back wall and a scoreboard looks out over the cubicles.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Leaders plan to use both the carrot and the stick to get workers back in their cubicles.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • For this, the entrepreneur needs to leave the cubicle, pound the pavement and talk to the customer.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But does the return to the cubicle need to be an all-or-nothing approach?
    Brett Crosby, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Many of us spend a good chunk of each day sitting at our desks, whether in a home office or a cubicle.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The idea of being chained to a cubicle for eight-plus hours a day, five days a week now looks archaic.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Offices with cubicles spaced out a few feet apart may no longer be safe.
    Eric Heisig, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Butler has a cubicle on the second floor of Mount Sinai, upstairs from the chapel and across the hall from the synagogue.
    Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2020
  • And when her Fitbit nudges her to get in more steps every two hours, Ms. Bush can bust a move in her cubicle.
    Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Jose Rijo had this foul-smelling goop in a Mason jar on the shelf of his cubicle at Riverfront.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2020
  • What better way to warm up a cold, sterile cubicle (or work-from-home-space) than with a new plant friend?
    Monique Valeris, ELLE Decor, 3 May 2022
  • Indeed, the small cubicle smelled like a mushroom farm, had a calcified door and would have fit right in at a campground.
    Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2024
  • Other than an excellent pair of noise canceling headphones, requesting a new cubicle is going to be your best bet for finding some peace.
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 11 May 2024

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