How to Use boiler room in a Sentence

boiler room

noun

• Bring your sales team out of the boiler room and back into the fold.
  — Vanessa Dreifuss, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• These are the control valves in the boiler room at Camp North End.
  — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 25 Jan. 2018
• In 1964, a staffer with a cash box was robbed by two men at gunpoint and locked in the boiler room.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
• Less than an hour later, the men left the unlocked boiler room.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 26 May 2022
• It was accessed by a basement door from the boiler room.
  — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 3 Dec. 2019
• With Charles in a stroller, the three of them manage to reach the boiler room just in time to prevent Jan from gassing the whole building.
  — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• He is transferred from the basement boiler room to the airy upper-floor suites where the big shots make their calls.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2018
• One night in 1966, the watertight doors in the engine and boiler rooms were ordered to be closed.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
• The basement has a gas boiler room, a wine cellar and storage rooms.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
• Olympia Resort was cited for a false alarm at 9:42 a.m. Oct. 5 when a fire alarm from a boiler room went off.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2017
• Kate Bertram told the board her daughter and friends hid in a boiler room during the incident.
  — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2023
• The workers took down most of the apartment building's boiler room and used that space to store debris, the report said.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• But there's more on Angela's mind than making out with Jordan in the boiler room.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
• But in the segregated Hollywood of the time, that wasn’t enough to get Bubbles out of the boiler room.
  — Brian Seibert, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
• Children play on potholed parking lots and in a boiler room with no lock on its door.
  — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2018
• One tableau features a gaunt and sooty man shoveling coal in what looks like the boiler room of a penal colony.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
• A day later, on March 30th, the same commander came into the boiler room.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
• Stephens said that Nassar exposed himself to her in a dark boiler room.
  — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• At one point the Russian soldiers conscripted Turash and others to dig a pit at least 10 feet deep next to the boiler room.
  — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
• An explosion in the boiler room of a Maryland school injured a child and two adults Wednesday.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
• The next morning, a Russian soldier opened the door to the boiler room at 8:30 a.m., earlier than normal.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 26 May 2022
• And people running them can cast a much wider net with robocalls than boiler rooms full of humans.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 May 2018
• The penthouse is invisible from the street, and was converted in the 1980s from what was then the boiler room of the former Prince George Hotel.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 5 Jan. 2023
• The tests spanned every classroom in the school and the boiler room, which was closest to the groundwater where the chemical was found, 10 to 15 feet below ground.
  — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 22 Feb. 2020
• Perhaps that sounds too abstract to be much help in the boiler room atmosphere of Detroit C-suites right now.
  — WIRED, 1 Oct. 2023
• Everding had his own company to run and could repair the decades-old relics only in his spare time in his boiler room.
  — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
• Workers tried and succeeded, Chiao says, to remove 4 feet of water from the boiler room.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Next, the guide leads everyone to the boiler room in the upper level through a zigzagging metal staircase.
  — Seattle Sketcher Gabriel Campanario, The Seattle Times, 10 Mar. 2018
• An email from a school spokeswoman to parents said a boiler room explosion blew off the top part of a building’s smokestack.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
• The next year was spent constructing the decks, interiors and boiler rooms.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024