How to Use storeroom in a Sentence

storeroom

noun
  • The fire broke out in a storeroom off the bar building, which was a total loss and had to be torn down.
    Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 2 Feb. 2020
  • The team must have found the essence of those brawlers bottled up in a storeroom somewhere and poured it straight into the code.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • The digging got underway the first night in February 1944, in a storeroom at the back of the bunker.
    Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The waffle irons sit idle in his storeroom, the frozen sausage taking up space in a freezer.
    Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Mike checked with DeMatha and, lo and behold, a storeroom held 200 reels of old game film.
    Washington Post, 6 July 2021
  • And there are reasons behind what goes on display and what gets left in the storeroom.
    Jack Ashby, Smithsonian, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Three dry droppings inside a box of soft tortillas on a shelf in the dry food storeroom.
    David J. Neal, miamiherald, 30 Apr. 2017
  • But for a variety of reasons, the kits sat filed away in storerooms and the cases went nowhere.
    Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The man marched us into the storeroom, pressing his gun into my back.
    Gabrielle Union, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Tens of thousands more books were stacked chest-high across the storeroom, blocking one of its two exits.
    Michael Forsythe and Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2016
  • The worker, a storeroom clerk, died over the weekend after taking sick leave for more than a month.
    Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
  • In the hands of a museum director who wants to make some space in the storerooms, these works are threatened.
    Simon Worrall, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Enrico showed me the storeroom where these riches were locked up at night.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
  • Dr. Smithies found a bottle of starch in a chemical storeroom.
    Denise Gellene, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2017
  • It had been stowed in the storeroom for decades and is now potentially worth millions of dollars.
    Laura M. Holson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Based in an underground storeroom in Mea Shearim, the group fields thousands of calls a week from Haredim who have fallen ill with the virus.
    New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The clubhouse was Gift Ngoepe’s home, an equipment storeroom his bedroom.
    Gerald Imray, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
  • One of my first jobs was in retail marketing as a salesperson on the storeroom floor.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Rolls of goat hide are racked in the storeroom.
    Bloomberg.com, 26 July 2017
  • In the basement of Carnegie Observatories sits a storeroom filled with plates of glass.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2017
  • Most of the artists who created these works have been long forgotten, and their paintings locked away in dusty storerooms.
    Simon Worrall, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Soko means storeroom The space that’s now home to Soko was a liquor storeroom prior to it being transformed into the stylish jewel box.
    Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • That has many antique dealers struggling to figure out what to do with the items remaining on their shelves and in their storerooms.
    National Geographic, 8 July 2016
  • Danny works as a house cleaner and sleeps in the storeroom of a bullying shopkeeper.
    Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • At the corner of the shop, across from vacuum filters, attachments and hoses, a white door opens into a storeroom.
    Julia Jones, CNN, 11 Oct. 2020
  • In the storerooms of the Genoa cruise ships there was always plenty of caviar; the storage lockers of high-class cruise lines often contained a ton or more of sturgeon eggs.
    David Samuels, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2013
  • Generally, the middle of May would find The Shoe Tree packed with families, and the storeroom overflowing with some 400 pairs of shoes.
    Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2020
  • Another Metro employee who worked as a storeroom clerk died of the virus about three weeks ago after being on sick leave for more than a month.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Bryant drew the harsh sentence after he was convicted of theft in 1997 for stealing the hedge clippers from a storeroom in a carport at a home in Shreveport.
    CBS News, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Just one and half feet up the wall of a storeroom for amphorae—tall jars often used to hold oil and wine—illustrations depict three small hands, two people playing with a ball, what looks like a wild boar and two boxers lying on the ground.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024

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