How to Use anteroom in a Sentence

anteroom

noun
  • The shelves of dry goods in the restaurant’s small anteroom offer a hint.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
  • In an anteroom at the right women had been stripped and exposed to the gaze of brutal men.
    — Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • There were white gloves on the table in the anteroom, laid out carefully next to a big black box.
    — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Bradford didn’t trust herself not to do much the same and sat alone in an anteroom for most of the trial.
    — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Bursts of laughter and clapping came from the anteroom across the hallway.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The unit has its own blood lab and an anteroom where health care workers can put on and take off their protective gear.
    — Ginger Christ, cleveland, 23 Feb. 2020
  • The main entry features a small anteroom that opens to a much larger central hall.
    — courant.com, 28 June 2019
  • Two young men sat at desks in the anteroom, a television set was turned to news and no moving boxes were in sight.
    — Anne Gearan, Washington Post, 23 June 2017
  • That was just the right amount of space for a receptionist’s anteroom and a windowed office.
    — Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • There, people stood against the walls and sat on the floor, leaving late arrivals to pile into hallways and anterooms.
    — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2017
  • My family would not live in that anteroom of unknowable anguish.
    — Mary O’Connell , Longreads, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Fred is super patronizing to the women in the chamber anteroom.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 11 July 2018
  • Another smartly dressed man appears, smiling, and guides us into a discreet anteroom.
    — Caroline Law, TheWeek, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Many of the newspaper poems land in an anteroom near the fourth-floor elevator, a long corridor away from the show’s main portion.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The office was packed and the anteroom there were 30 or so people waiting patiently; women, children, men.
    — David Schenker, Foreign Affairs, 18 May 2015
  • The committee room is set up with an anteroom behind the main chamber, and that's typically where lawmakers can go and eat during a meeting.
    — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Shots were fired in an anteroom that had not an hour before seen thousands of guests, including senior government officials, streaming through.
    — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • In the main building, a young monk from Syria named Seraphim escorted us into an anteroom with a magnificent view over the sea.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Once upon a time, rather than punt the less starry Oscar categories to a preshow anteroom, the Oscars used to try to snazz the craft categories up.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2022
  • On the evening of June 9, the committee members lined up in the anteroom of the Cannon Caucus Room.
    — Luke Broadwater Philip Montgomery, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • More than 150 pairs of basketball shoes, the preponderance of them Jordans, cram an anteroom and a walk-in closet.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Petzel’s also got Tschabalala Self in the viewing room, and tasty new Seth Price works in the anteroom space.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026
  • Alvaro Rojas-Peña, the co-director of the lab, led me into an anteroom that adjoined an operating suite.
    — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The visiting manager’s office at Nationals Park has an anteroom with a couch, a small coffee table, and a bookcase.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Republicans and Democrats were in and out of the anteroom, but Flake wanted to talk to Coons, and at one point the two ended up alone in a small phone booth for privacy.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Kevin Sweeney, Mattis’s chief of staff, kept the Cotton staffers waiting and declined to invite them into his office, instead meeting with them briefly in the anteroom.
    — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 22 Mar. 2017
  • Upon arriving in an anteroom, they are signed in by staff, directed to lock up all electronics and allowed into the SCIF.
    — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • It was used mainly for ceremonies, an anteroom of sorts between the spiritual and material worlds, with a hearth, a complex ventilation and chimney system, and a hole in the floor.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • In a separate complex behind the museum, a large anteroom full of polished rosewood furniture—king-size beds, thrones, busts of Khmer kings—opens up to a warehouse stacked high with raw planks of red timber.
    — Jason Motlagh, National Geographic, 14 Mar. 2016
  • In the hospital anteroom, I am brought before a ponytailed and hugely pregnant triage nurse seated in her station at the threshold of the ER, like Gabriel at the gate.
    — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017

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