How to Use dayroom in a Sentence

dayroom

noun
  • His race through the dayroom, his white t-shirt soaked in blood.
    Joseph Neff and Alysia Santo, USA TODAY, 25 June 2019
  • The $4 million project, styled like a cabin, has new sleeping quarters, a kitchen and dining room, a dayroom and laundry room.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The emergency beds were put in dayrooms in the pods, which individual cells look out on.
    Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 3 June 2019
  • In the dayroom, women spread out into almost every corner of the cozy space and sort through underwear, socks, pants and shirts.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Weidner opened the door to the dayroom outside Maricella’s cell.
    jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Around the same time, the supervisor went into the Crystal Cove Unit and staff told her a patient was unresponsive in the dayroom, records show.
    Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 6 July 2021
  • According to arrest documents, Orphee was involved with breaking up a scuffle in the dayroom area of Pod 2A inside the jail.
    Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 23 May 2017
  • According to the arrest report, the incident began when a jail officer asked that Cruz not drag his sandals on the ground while walking around a dayroom area.
    Eric Levenson, Amanda Watts and Jason Hanna, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Prisoners were sleeping in gyms, hallways and dayrooms.
    ProPublica, 28 May 2019
  • It was supposed to be a stopgap alternative to freeing inmates from prisons so crowded that inmates were bunked three-deep in gymnasiums and dayrooms.
    USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
  • Cynthia Brann, commissioner of the Department of Correction, displayed a rendering of the facilities that showed a large dayroom surrounded by jail cells, all bathed in sunlight.
    Fox News, 11 July 2019
  • The station includes 10 private bunk rooms, four restrooms, a dayroom with a kitchen at one end, offices, work rooms, a locked medical supply room off the bay, and conference/training room with audio visual capabilities.
    Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 14 May 2021

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