How to Use antechamber in a Sentence

antechamber

noun
  • The doors open up to an antechamber set with chairs and benches.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The locker rooms and antechambers behind the scenes are drab and plain.
    — Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The time has come for the King of Debt to emerge from his musty antechamber.
    — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 30 Mar. 2017
  • The women waited in an antechamber and were summoned into the room one by one.
    — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Those who did not fit inside the council chambers watched the meeting livestream in the antechamber.
    — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The core of the film is really a Kammerspiel set in the antechambers of hell.
    — Boyd Van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2020
  • After the antechamber comes the splendor of the burial complex itself, which would have housed the pharaoh’s mummy.
    — National Geographic, 25 June 2020
  • Each member of the coaching staff will have his own office, with a central conference table in the antechamber.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In my analogy, the two sides are now in the antechamber of family court, awaiting the legal squabble.
    — Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2017
  • Atmosphere is what Central Park lacks right now, in the antechamber of springtime.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2018
  • An antechamber follows, with breathtaking paintings of the starry sky on the ceiling.
    — National Geographic, 25 June 2020
  • The paintings on display beyond the antechamber play on themes of spectacle, public perception and sleight of hand.
    — Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Past the entryway, in a dark, domed antechamber lit by flickering lights styled as medieval torches, stand two statues of angels with swords in hand.
    — Matías Costa, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
  • Dak Prescott strode through the double doors of the concrete antechamber, waiting patiently in the corner with his luggage.
    — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The store was labyrinth, with narrow staircases in the backs of small rooms, and chambers and antechambers that opened up into expansive arenas of clothing.
    — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The larynx functions like an antechamber to the windpipe, or trachea, with a flap of tissue called the epiglottis keeping food and drink from falling down the windpipe.
    — Kate Golembiewski, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • For 10 long years, the sovereign toiled in a 2-by-10-foot castle antechamber to create the perfect beer.
    — Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • For Servillo, theater is not the antechamber of cinematic success.
    — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Two guides appear, likewise cleansed of earthly cares, and lead me into a broad antechamber that could be part of a very, very clean senatorial Roman bath.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In an ages-old, arched antechamber that led to a courtyard, Yuri Jacinto Huaytalla ground fresh beans and poured me a silky latte.
    — National Geographic, 19 July 2019
  • The air-fuel mixture is forced into this antechamber during the piston's compression stroke, and primary ignition takes place inside it.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2020
  • After the talk at Stanford, Gomez lingers in an antechamber of the center as various mental-health dignitaries approach.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Back in the antechamber, Anderson decided to buy a commemorative lamb figurine from the gift shop, made out of the wool of sheep that graze in the cemetery every year.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2022
  • At least one protester attempted to spray officers with a chemical agent that appeared to be mace while attempting to enter one antechamber blocked by officers.
    — Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 22 Dec. 2020
  • In an adjacent antechamber and office, a billowing Josef Hoffmann light fixture hangs above a small conference table.
    — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Venable escorted the group through the cathedral under a large pipe organ and downstairs to the quiet antechamber that marked the entrance to the catacombs, which sat in darkness behind a wooden door.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The gathering kicked off with Perseval-Farge champagne and cocktails in a lounge area that serves as the antechamber to Hendifar’s office.
    — Gillian Brassil, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • For the occasion, the Shed’s Griffin Theater greets guests with an antechamber cast in sepulchral light and hung with wall size images from Sakamoto’s life.
    — Max Lakin, New York Times, 25 June 2023
  • Half the restaurant is reserved as a sort of antechamber, called the Living Room, used for canapés and champagne before dinner, or for coffee and digestifs afterward.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In an antechamber outside the senate floor, a conservator named Ismail Carvalho was inspecting a landscape painting that had been torn from its frame.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023

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