How to Use dumbwaiter in a Sentence

dumbwaiter

noun

• There’s a dumbwaiter to hoist his baked goods to the sales floor.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 7 Nov. 2020
• The kitchen has a dumbwaiter to transport groceries from the garage.
  — Sarah Paynter, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2022
• Food is sent to the dining room via a series of dumbwaiters.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2019
• Is a dumbwaiter at a Dim Sum restaurant called a Dim-Dum?
  — David Jerome, Orange County Register, 29 Mar. 2017
• The large butler’s pantry has a dumbwaiter to the lower level rec room and up to the second floor.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 30 Aug. 2019
• In the cellar, a big kitchen includes a dumbwaiter that once sent meals up to the green dining room.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• There's a caterer's kitchen with its own entrance, and a dumbwaiter for the vittles and drinks.
  — Rohan Preston Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
• The food was prepared in the kitchen in the lower level and shot upstairs by dumbwaiter to keep the machines stocked.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 16 Jan. 2020
• The sky deck has space for al-fresco dining (all four decks are connected by a dumbwaiter for the crew to move food and drinks).
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 30 Dec. 2022
• During the tour, the Legally Blonde star shows off an old-fashioned dumbwaiter.
  — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2022
• At Lechner’s Gourmet Restaurant, where the kitchen was on the third floor and orders were sent down on dumbwaiters.
  — Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2018
• The Watsons also made the oversized dumbwaiter to move heavy items upstairs and down.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• First, there's the kooky older neighbor who sneaks into the Brannocks' house and hides in their dumbwaiter (umm, heck no).
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 7 Oct. 2022
• When an order is ready to go, it's placed on a conveyor belt that runs through the back-of-house before depositing the food onto a dumbwaiter in the front-of-house.
  — Lauren Saria, azcentral, 6 Feb. 2020
• After The Wescott opens, BarVista patrons will be able to order off that menu too, with orders zipped upstairs via dumbwaiter.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 7 Feb. 2020
• The dumbwaiter is picked over before hitting the bottom level.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• In the middle of each room, down the center of the building, is a giant hole where a descending meal platform — a kind of mass dumbwaiter — stops once a day, for the briefest interval.
  — Jason Bailey, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
• Also downstairs are a cabana with a shower and toilet, a laundry room, storage and an open two-car garage with a dumbwaiter to the upstairs kitchen.
  — Marcelle Sussman Fischler, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• Like with Thomas Jefferson’s ingenious dumbwaiter, there are no signs of the human labor that brought it.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2020
• The new restaurant isn't an extension of El Real, however, Real Agave's food will be prepared in its kitchen and run up by dumbwaiter.
  — Megha McSwain, Chron, 20 Sep. 2022
• Among them: cast-iron railings, a dumbwaiter, pedestal lights, plumbing fixtures, marble stairways — and lots and lots of bookcases.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• The Professor tells them to build a trench and cover their defensive position, but just as all hope seems lost, a doped-up Stockholm starts exploring the office and finds a dumbwaiter that goes up to the kitchen.
  — Tara Ariano, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2021
• The abundant perks — in G.E.’s case, two helicopter pads, a shoeshine station and an executive dining room linked to the kitchen below by dumbwaiters — fed the sense of exalted status.
  — Nelson D. Schwartz, New York Times, 17 June 2017
• Instead of hydraulics in the floor that permit characters to descend into hell, the journey is made via a compartment upstage that opens and closes like a restaurant dumbwaiter.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
• Within moments, dumbwaiter-style, the offering would be replaced by unseen hands.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2022
• Since there's no way out of this one, Grace fights her way through the night, having to contend with sinister butlers, dangerous dumbwaiters, and a mother-in-law who will do anything to protect her family from harm.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• My favorite is the mansion’s kitchen, with its gleaming modern steel cabinets and appliances, delicate porcelain cups and the dumbwaiter used to transport it all to Mrs. Post’s dinner parties.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
• The kitchen is open to the family room and provides a large island with a prep sink, granite countertops, upscale appliances (including a six-burner Wolf gas range with a griddle), a pot filler and a dumbwaiter serving all three floors.
  — Dallas News, 26 Dec. 2020
• The kitchen is open to the family room and features a large island with a prep sink, granite countertops, upscale appliances (including a six-burner Wolf gas range with a griddle), a pot filler and a dumbwaiter serving all three floors.
  — Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2020
• Wedding night in the family mansion, decked out with dumbwaiters, servants’ corridors and the smell of moral rot, turns into a lethal all-night round of hide and seek, played with executioner’s ax, crossbow, shotgun and hot tea kettle.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024