How to Use cloakroom in a Sentence
cloakroom
noun- We left our things in the cloakroom.
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Senators have to bring their own milk to the cloakroom, the aide added.
—Daniel Flatley, Bloomberg.com, 22 Jan. 2020
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There were meetings with staff and the senator in the cloakroom, just off the Senate floor.
—Phil Mattingly, CNN, 23 Mar. 2018
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The sables, mink, and ermines checked at the cloakroom could have carpeted the chateau ballroom wall to wall.
—Vogue, 25 Apr. 2022
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The single-story structure has three en suite bedrooms, a cloakroom and study.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2022
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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
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Sacco removed the cloakroom nearby, making way for a bar that now extends to the front windows.
—Washington Post, 4 June 2021
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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
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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
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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
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Moran also reportedly voted from the cloakroom, though its unclear if that was due to dress code.
—Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 7 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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At times, the chamber was partly empty as senators took breaks in the adjoining party cloakrooms.
—Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This criticism must make for a hilarious joke in the Democratic cloakroom.
—Scott Jennings, CNN, 2 Jan. 2023
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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
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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
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Later, the cabinet was abandoned in favor of a converted cloakroom: an actual map room.
—Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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