How to Use cloakroom in a Sentence

cloakroom

noun

• We left our things in the cloakroom.
• Senators have to bring their own milk to the cloakroom, the aide added.
  — Daniel Flatley, Bloomberg.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• There were meetings with staff and the senator in the cloakroom, just off the Senate floor.
  — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 23 Mar. 2018
• The sables, mink, and ermines checked at the cloakroom could have carpeted the chateau ballroom wall to wall.
  — Vogue, 25 Apr. 2022
• The single-story structure has three en suite bedrooms, a cloakroom and study.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2022
• Guests had the option of checking their shoes in a cloakroom before a traipse over the sandy beach (with glasses of champagne in hand) to a makeshift wood-plank runway.
  — Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2019
• Sacco removed the cloakroom nearby, making way for a bar that now extends to the front windows.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
• Ortiz said Peltola has hardly left the House floor over the past few days except to grab lunch from the adjacent cloakroom.
  — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Jan. 2023
• At the time of Trump’s speech, Cheney was in the House cloakroom awaiting the ritual state-by-state tabulation of electoral votes.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• The vast apartment-style space, comes with a lounge, cloakroom, walk-in wardrobe, bathroom, bedroom and outdoor terrace which overlooks the roof-tops of Brown Hart Gardens.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• Moran also reportedly voted from the cloakroom, though its unclear if that was due to dress code.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 7 Apr. 2022
• The legislative affairs team even set up a special phone booth in the House cloakroom in order for members to receive calls from the president and his deputies.
  — Ashley Parker, Washington Post, 4 May 2017
• Some made quick conversation with their neighbor to the right or left; some disappeared into the cloakroom for minutes at a time.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 23 Jan. 2020
• At times, the chamber was partly empty as senators took breaks in the adjoining party cloakrooms.
  — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2020
• Workers happened upon the fresco while installing a new ticket office and cloakroom in the museum’s west wing.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• At a diplomatic reception, a senior French official joked that the tattoo on her arm was like a cloakroom ticket.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2017
• Patrick McHenry, currently the chief deputy whip, recalls how, on his first day in Congress in 2005, Boehner walked into the cloakroom and spotted him eating an ice cream sandwich.
  — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Oct. 2017
• Biden, who had his share of long nights during his three decades as a senator, called into the Senate cloakroom during the vote on speakerphone to personally thank the staff for their hard work.
  — Alan Fram and Lisa Mascaro, Chron, 7 Aug. 2022
• This criticism must make for a hilarious joke in the Democratic cloakroom.
  — Scott Jennings, CNN, 2 Jan. 2023
• But in their offices, gyms and cloakrooms, lawmakers and their staff members pondered with colleagues the speed and depth of Mr. Trump’s careening presidency.
  — Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 19 May 2017
• Gomez seems to be collecting the same positive reinforcement for changing Hodge’s diaper in the House cloakroom that Hodge will one day collect for using a big-boy spoon to smear mushed peas on his face for the first time.
  — Phillip MacIak, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Later, the cabinet was abandoned in favor of a converted cloakroom: an actual map room.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
• Details of the cloakroom spilled into the public domain this year through an Ohio court case involving concerts at the 2016 Republican Convention.
  — Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Pages assist with low-level tasks such as bringing water, delivering documents and helping out in the cloakroom.
  — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
• To call Donald Trump’s recent actions a gauche interpretation of party etiquette isn’t the whole story, though 77 million votes against you is certainly a unanimous hint to hit the cloakroom queue.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2020
• After Tuesday’s overwhelming vote in the Senate, the president called each of the 10 senators personally, reaching Sinema in the Senate cloakroom.
  — Lisa Mascaro, ajc, 11 Aug. 2021
• As a precaution, museums started instructing female visitors to leave their muffs, bags and parcels in cloakrooms, according to an NPG press release.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
• For the Joneses, the cloakroom discussions and cable news debates playing out on television only seem to spotlight the gulf between their family and policymakers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2021
• During his term, President Roosevelt also had a cloakroom transformed into a movie theater— an addition that has remained popular with First Families to this day.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 21 Jan. 2021
• But the night before Turley’s session, Paul cornered McConnell’s staff in the cloakroom and demanded an immediate vote on the constitutionality of the looming trial.
  — Karoun Demirjian, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024