How to Use closet in a Sentence

closet

1 of 2 noun

• The sheets and blankets are in the hall closet.
• He has a closet full of new clothes.
• Each summer, a shoe emerges as the one to have in your closet.
  — Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 13 June 2023
• The killer had ransacked the home, found a floor safe in the closet and emptied it.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 23 June 2023
• Maybe there are clues to be found in Williams’s own closet.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 19 June 2023
• Sylvester was the first gay Black pop star who was out of the closet, as far as the public knew.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2024
• On the right is a closet that is followed, also on the right, by the first bedroom.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• There’s even a laundry chute from the closet that connects to one of the two laundry rooms.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 14 June 2023
• Off the main office/bedroom is a bathroom and a walk-in closet.
  — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
• The primary suite has a walk-in closet with built-ins and is on the second floor, along with the laundry room.
  — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 18 May 2023
• The captain liked him, and had a bunk for him moved into his own cabin, which was the size of a large closet.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2024
• The primary bedroom, at the rear of the main floor, has an en suite bathroom, a reach-in closet and a deck.
  — Hope Hodge Seck, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• The father claimed the gun was stored on a high shelf in a closet, according to police.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 1 June 2023
• When a high waist meets a relaxed straight leg, the results are a clean and crisp jean that will be in your closet for years.
  — Paula Lee, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2024
• All of the open floor plans include spacious closets, a walk-in pantry and covered back porch.
  — Weichert, Realtors® Welch & Company and Lambie Homes, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2024
• Looking to spice up your shoe closet ahead of a new season of travel?
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2023
• No offense to the little black dresses of the world, but the item that truly works the hardest in your closet is a good pair of jeans.
  — Melissa Epifano, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
• From the office to an evening out, these shoes will complement so much in your closet.
  — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
• Unwind in style with a king-size bed, walk-in closet, and a spacious shower.
  — Megan Honan, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2023
• Last weekend was so chilly that people dug sweaters out of their closets.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• The bedroom has enough room for a desk and plenty of storage courtesy of side-by-side closets.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Do future you a favor and get this coat in your closet ASAP.
  — Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2023
• Some are just scrounged out closets and out of parents' desk drawers.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• LaFleur said five or six students made frequent visits to the closet in his class this year.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 12 June 2023
• The years went by, and her closets bulged with the glimmering evidence of moments in the spotlight.
  — Cathy Alter, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• This bag can now be found, zipped up and resting on a shelf in my bedroom closet, ready to be wheeled out if the need arises.
  — Ayurella Horn-Muller, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
• The depth of that closet, the trove of secrets buried, indifferent to the consequences.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• The other model unit has a full bathroom with a door from the kitchen and a walk-in closet that is connected to the bedroom.
  — Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
• Out Meet this Shoulder Bag, the purse that every closet has been dreaming about.
  — Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• What stood out most to me, though, was the storage space — there was plenty of it, from closets to shelves to baskets for shoes to a dresser.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024

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closet

2 of 2 verb

• He closeted himself in his apartment for several days.
• Though his boyfriend at the time was with him at the Games, he was still closeted.
  — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• The fourth and best episode of the season finds the team making over A.J., a black gay man who is still semi-closeted.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
• These stars of the past are part of Giles’s and Elisa’s present: Giles is gay, but the prevailing attitudes of the time keep him closeted.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 31 Aug. 2017
• Though Clemons was gay — and sadly closeted for a long time — he was embraced by Rogers as a true friend for life.
  — NBC News, 22 May 2018
• Still, there is something like love in Cohn’s closeted life.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2018
• Halloween offers up a free pass to closet candy eaters like me.
  — Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 24 Oct. 2017
• He was married, and remained closeted for much of his life.
  — refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Cohn was also gay, not so much closeted as hiding in plain, catch-me-if-you-can sight.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Montour, who grew up in Worcester and was closeted until age 40, now has a large group of friends.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
• Thanks to Mansur Gavriel, simple totes with colorful linings have gone from trend to closet staple in the last few years.
  — Lindsay Peoples Wagner, The Cut, 7 Mar. 2018
• The contrast between the out-and-proud life of young John Sparsholt and his father David’s closeted one defines Hollinghurst’s novel.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Longreads, 29 Mar. 2018
• The list includes everything from a doorman and a super to closet space and a dishwasher.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 6 Oct. 2020
• Organize your entryway or closet with the Songmics Shoe Rack that's on sale for just $16.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2023
• At this point Kenworthy, who won a silver medal at the Winter Games in Russia in 2014, was still closeted.
  — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• Then crouch in a small, interior room or closet away from windows.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 10 Apr. 2020
• Electric vehicles are no longer some weird damp closet the AV team hides in anymore.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 26 Dec. 2021
• There are countless black gay men, both closeted and out, young and old, who carry that heavy load on their shoulders every day.
  — Gerren Keith Gaynor, The Root, 3 Apr. 2018
• For Berlanti, who is openly gay himself and grew up closeted until his early 20s, the film is a labor of love.
  — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2018
• As St Morris could not have known, writing a year before the movie’s release, Esti is closeted and depressed.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2018
• Supernatural exists in a world where angels rock trench coats, demons roam freely, and that thing in your kids closet?
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• While there is no room for storage upstairs in the bedroom, David carved out a walk-in that will do double duty as a pantry and clothes closet downstairs off the living room.
  — Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com, 19 July 2017
• Hopefully, someone else will feel that joy and that makes the parting from what once were my favorite things such sweet sorrow Onto the next purge — my clothes closet.
  — Dolly Merritt, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 Aug. 2020
• At the time a paradise for American tourists — both straight and gay — the island no doubt offered a bounty of attractions for the young, closeted Harvey.
  — John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 May 2018
• By the end of the day, the homeless women had met their new roommates, signed their rental agreements, washed and closeted their clothes and fought back tears reading the welcome notes waiting for them on their new beds.
  — Doug Smith, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• The beginning of springtime signals closet clean-outs, patio season — and lots of spring discounts.
  — Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
• Snagglepuss in this story is having to live a double life as a gay playwright living in New York, and he's closeted.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
• In a climate of so many things that are changing, so many discussions that have now come to the forefront that have been closeted for so very long — for a multitude of reasons.
  — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 27 Feb. 2018
• There's no amount of drunk or closeted that excuses or explains away assaulting a 14-year-old child.
  — Chris Malone, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2017
• There’s no amount of drunk or closeted that excuses or explains away assaulting a 14-year-old child.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 30 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 3 May 2024