How to Use anteroom in a Sentence

anteroom

noun

• The shelves of dry goods in the restaurant’s small anteroom offer a hint.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
• In an anteroom at the right women had been stripped and exposed to the gaze of brutal men.
  — Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
• Bradford didn’t trust herself not to do much the same and sat alone in an anteroom for most of the trial.
  — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2022
• There were white gloves on the table in the anteroom, laid out carefully next to a big black box.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2018
• Bursts of laughter and clapping came from the anteroom across the hallway.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• On the evening of June 9, the committee members lined up in the anteroom of the Cannon Caucus Room.
  — Luke Broadwater Philip Montgomery, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• Two young men sat at desks in the anteroom, a television set was turned to news and no moving boxes were in sight.
  — Anne Gearan, Washington Post, 23 June 2017
• The unit has its own blood lab and an anteroom where health care workers can put on and take off their protective gear.
  — Ginger Christ, cleveland, 23 Feb. 2020
• There, people stood against the walls and sat on the floor, leaving late arrivals to pile into hallways and anterooms.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2017
• The main entry features a small anteroom that opens to a much larger central hall.
  — courant.com, 28 June 2019
• Lindsay-Hogg, the four Beatles and Ono gathered in a tiny anteroom just below the roof at around 12:30 in the afternoon.
  — Roy Trakin, Variety, 10 Dec. 2021
• Republicans and Democrats were in and out of the anteroom, but Flake wanted to talk to Coons, and at one point the two ended up alone in a small phone booth for privacy.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
• Once upon a time, rather than punt the less starry Oscar categories to a preshow anteroom, the Oscars used to try to snazz the craft categories up.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2022
• In the hospital anteroom, I am brought before a ponytailed and hugely pregnant triage nurse seated in her station at the threshold of the ER, like Gabriel at the gate.
  — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017
• More than 150 pairs of basketball shoes, the preponderance of them Jordans, cram an anteroom and a walk-in closet.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• After Coons spoke, Flake walked around the dais, tapped him on the shoulder and motioned into the anteroom, where the two began negotiations.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
• Many of the newspaper poems land in an anteroom near the fourth-floor elevator, a long corridor away from the show’s main portion.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2021
• In an anteroom, stunned tycoons were munching on sandwiches while awaiting the results of their coronavirus swabs to clear them to share Mr. Putin’s air.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• Kevin Sweeney, Mattis’s chief of staff, kept the Cotton staffers waiting and declined to invite them into his office, instead meeting with them briefly in the anteroom.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 22 Mar. 2017
• Fred is super patronizing to the women in the chamber anteroom.
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 11 July 2018
• The suit selection is vast, with racks stretching farther and farther back, until the $5,000 Brionis, which, like men’s mink coats, hang in a semiprivate anteroom.
  — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
• Ms. Marchese said in an interview this week in an anteroom at the compound, as her team prepared for a series of events marking the one-year anniversary of Prince’s death on Friday.
  — Michaelangelo Matos, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• Upon arriving in an anteroom, they are signed in by staff, directed to lock up all electronics and allowed into the SCIF.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• At the top of the great marble stair leading from the courtyard, the anteroom is a mirror image of his contemporary design for a reception room at the Chanel jewelry showroom in the Place Vendôme.
  — Kennedy Fraser, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
• My family would not live in that anteroom of unknowable anguish.
  — Maryoconn, Longreads, 18 Sep. 2017
• The committee room is set up with an anteroom behind the main chamber, and that's typically where lawmakers can go and eat during a meeting.
  — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
• In a separate complex behind the museum, a large anteroom full of polished rosewood furniture—king-size beds, thrones, busts of Khmer kings—opens up to a warehouse stacked high with raw planks of red timber.
  — Jason Motlagh, National Geographic, 14 Mar. 2016
• It was used mainly for ceremonies, an anteroom of sorts between the spiritual and material worlds, with a hearth, a complex ventilation and chimney system, and a hole in the floor.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• In an adjacent anteroom, there’s a stationary bike, 15-pound weights, a multipurpose fitness tower and a TRX suspension trainer hanging on the door.
  — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2017
• Rapin himself was responsible for the collaboration with Sèvres, which resulted in a giant interior vase placed in an anteroom off the great hall that doubled as a ballroom.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024