cupboard
What is the Definition of cupboard?
Noun:
- a small room (or recess)
How can I use cupboard in a sentence?
By the time he was allowed out of his cupboard again, the summer holidays had started and Dudley had already broken his new video camera, crashed his remote control airplane, and, first time out on his racing bike, knocked down old Mrs. Figg as she crossed Privet Drive on her crutches.
True, Dudley was now so scared of Harry he would not stay in the same room, while Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon did not shut Harry in his cupboard, force him to do anything, or shout at him — in fact, they did not speak to him at all.
He would spent his life being clouted by Dudley, and bullied by Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon; if he was really a wizard, why had not they been turned into warty toads every time they'd tried to lock him in his cupboard?
I am warning you, he had said, putting his large purple face right up close to Harry's, I am warning you now, boy — any funny business, anything at all — and you will be in that cupboard from now until Christmas.
Sometimes, when he strained his memory during long hours in his cupboard, he came up with a strange vision: a blinding flash of green light and a burning pain on his forehead.