How to Use cloakroom in a Sentence

cloakroom

noun
  • We left our things in the cloakroom.
  • Senators have to bring their own milk to the cloakroom, the aide added.
    — Daniel Flatley, Bloomberg.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • At the moment of your arrival, a maid would take your coat to the second-floor cloakroom.
    — Robert Khederian, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The space has continued to double as a cloakroom for special events.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The single-story structure has three en suite bedrooms, a cloakroom and study.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The sables, mink, and ermines checked at the cloakroom could have carpeted the chateau ballroom wall to wall.
    — Vogue, 25 Apr. 2022
  • There were meetings with staff and the senator in the cloakroom, just off the Senate floor.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 23 Mar. 2018
  • In the back, one of the founders was giving the lo-down on his project to a cloakroom attendant, who returned a polite smile.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 3 July 2024
  • Sacco removed the cloakroom nearby, making way for a bar that now extends to the front windows.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • Moran also reportedly voted from the cloakroom, though its unclear if that was due to dress code.
    — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Some made quick conversation with their neighbor to the right or left; some disappeared into the cloakroom for minutes at a time.
    — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Guests had the option of checking their shoes in a cloakroom before a traipse over the sandy beach (with glasses of champagne in hand) to a makeshift wood-plank runway.
    — Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2019
  • At times, the chamber was partly empty as senators took breaks in the adjoining party cloakrooms.
    — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Workers happened upon the fresco while installing a new ticket office and cloakroom in the museum’s west wing.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Ortiz said Peltola has hardly left the House floor over the past few days except to grab lunch from the adjacent cloakroom.
    — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • This criticism must make for a hilarious joke in the Democratic cloakroom.
    — Scott Jennings, CNN, 2 Jan. 2023
  • At a diplomatic reception, a senior French official joked that the tattoo on her arm was like a cloakroom ticket.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2017
  • Pages assist with low-level tasks such as bringing water, delivering documents and helping out in the cloakroom.
    — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The legislative affairs team even set up a special phone booth in the House cloakroom in order for members to receive calls from the president and his deputies.
    — Ashley Parker, Washington Post, 4 May 2017
  • Biden, who had his share of long nights during his three decades as a senator, called into the Senate cloakroom during the vote on speakerphone to personally thank the staff for their hard work.
    — Alan Fram and Lisa Mascaro, Chron, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The vast apartment-style space, comes with a lounge, cloakroom, walk-in wardrobe, bathroom, bedroom and outdoor terrace which overlooks the roof-tops of Brown Hart Gardens.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • In the cloakroom, a white-coated dentist operated two blue nitrous tanks, handing out balloons emblazoned with the High Times logo.
    — Sean Howe, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Staffers let go included those assigned to security, reception, ticketing, the bookstore, and the cloakroom; some who lost their jobs had worked at the Uffizi for more than ten years.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Once a cloakroom, the @WhiteHouse Family Theater has been a private screening room for first families and their guests since 1942.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • For the Joneses, the cloakroom discussions and cable news debates playing out on television only seem to spotlight the gulf between their family and policymakers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2021
  • However, it has been circumvented numerous times by lawmakers who arrive at the Capitol to vote from the airport or the gym by voting from the edge of the Senate floor, with one foot still in the cloakroom.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2023
  • As a precaution, museums started instructing female visitors to leave their muffs, bags and parcels in cloakrooms, according to an NPG press release.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Details of the cloakroom spilled into the public domain this year through an Ohio court case involving concerts at the 2016 Republican Convention.
    — Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • During his term, President Roosevelt also had a cloakroom transformed into a movie theater— an addition that has remained popular with First Families to this day.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Patrick McHenry, currently the chief deputy whip, recalls how, on his first day in Congress in 2005, Boehner walked into the cloakroom and spotted him eating an ice cream sandwich.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Oct. 2017

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