How to Use bedchamber in a Sentence

bedchamber

noun
  • The queen was in her bedchamber.
  • Modern visitors can enjoy views through the oriel windows of the king’s bedchambers, or over the loch to the Forth bridges.
    Glasgow, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
  • No one was ever questioned or punished, not even the guards who had been posted at the door of the royal bedchamber that night.
    Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • George Washington passed away in his and Martha's bedchamber.
    CBS News, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Don't miss the queen's bedchambers, a masterpiece of over-the-top-ness; the legendary Hall of Mirrors, still used by the French government today to receive heads of state; or the three square miles of gardens.
    Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2019
  • And Jon Snow was even bolder, knock-knock-knocking on Daenerys’s bedchambers door late at night, after the big meetings with Cersei were over.
    Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Downtown hero Paul Lazar finally makes Shakespeare’s difficult porter scene work, in which a drunken doorkeeper cracks jokes and a beer while bad things are happening in the king’s bedchamber.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2022
  • In the ‘original situation’ of the Queen’s bedchamber, the luminaries blockchain ‘passing’ in several senses.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • One of the most playful and unexpected moments comes via a fuzzy white cabinet by Fernando Laposse, which occupies the otherwise reserved state bedchamber.
    Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Among the royal effects is a c. 1700 carved giltwood armchair possibly used by Louis XIV at official audiences in the royal bedchamber (the show elucidates the surprisingly public nature of certain palace rooms).
    Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The Weinsteinians are more like an imperial ruling class commanding unsuspecting young maidens to service them in their bedchambers.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Lorenzo dons several disguises to win admittance to Lucrezia's bedchamber — hardly necessary, given her eager participation in the scheme.
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2017
  • The monarchs designated a separate bedchamber for conducting royal business.
    Nika Mavrody, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017

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