How to Use pegboard in a Sentence

pegboard

noun
  • One of the simplest looks like a pegboard—dots arranged in a square grid.
    Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The pegboard comes with a variety of holders and hooks to keep small tools neat and tidy.
    Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Mar. 2023
  • First, paint the pegboard to match the room or a contrasting color.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The laundry pegboard can also be achieved with wood and dowels.
    Lori Keong, Architectural Digest, 13 Sep. 2024
  • And a basic pegboard with hooks for hanging tools is a good way to use vertical wall space.
    Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Last week, my handyman installed pegboard ($25) on one garage wall.
    NOLA.com, 19 June 2017
  • Two sides of the room have a work area made of wood, and one wall is covered in a large pegboard that’s filled with pictures.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Paint squares on a pegboard to designate spots for specific items.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Hang the pegboard on wall stud and equip it with bins for an innovative storage system.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The set is constructed in homage to her famous home kitchen, with pegboard walls and copper cookware.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Ryan's office, located in a little cube off the side of the house, is paneled in wide sheets of pegboard.
    Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 31 Jan. 2019
  • Instead, mount a pegboard lined with hooks or hang a wire lattice grid and arrange a variety of hooks to suit your items.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Instead, mount a pegboard lined with hooks or hang a wire lattice grid and arrange a variety of hooks to suit your items.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Aug. 2022
  • A couple of the walls were covered in pegboard with hooks and outlines of the pots and pans Julia hung on them.
    Dorie Greenspan, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Install a pegboard to keep small tools or gardening supplies sorted.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 May 2026
  • Install pegboards for hanging tools and attach shelves or dowel rods to unused wall areas.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The walls were lined with pale plywood and pegboard that carried shoes from floor to ceiling, like an art installation.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2022
  • The compact box includes necklace hooks, a stud pegboard for earrings, and a ring cushion with seven grooves.
    Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2024
  • On the left of the pegboard is a list of auction items, and on the right is a preview pane for viewing each auction’s eBay page.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2007
  • Instead of stacking heavy pots and pans on top of each other (and using up valuable shelf space) just install a pegboard on a free wall.
    Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 21 Dec. 2022
  • As snugly as pegs settling into holes in a pegboard, these molecules made themselves at home in this surface.
    Peter Radetsky, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Build small projects like storage cubes, pegboards, or finally hang artwork while staying indoors.
    Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The vibe Nods to the former bus repair garage include walls covered with pegboard and beer taps with school buses as handles.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Affix a pegboard with repositionable hooks to a wall or the inside of a tall cabinet door to hang kitchen supplies.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The new Blocks can also be customized with pegboards, shelves, and textured light panels to bring more function to your wall art.
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Around the back, Chen placed a kid-friendly zone, with a pegboard wall for hats and coats, and drawers set to receive phones for nightly charging.
    Alexandra Lange, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Rounding the corner into the hallway, there’s a pegboard of power tools and custom shelves spilling over with cables and hardware.
    Kayla Levy, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Other creative custom designs include the open shelving in the kitchen area and a wall-length pegboard for hanging and drying items like laundry and bags.
    Lori Keong, Architectural Digest, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Everything about this kitchen is straight from the '60s, from the pink accent cabinets to the old appliances and pegboard wall.
    Farima Ferguson, The Spruce, 28 Jan. 2026
  • There are also additional sets with more squares or pegboards as well as add-on kits for textured squares, regular squares, small squares, pegboards, and shelves.
    Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

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