How to Use common room in a Sentence

common room

noun
  • Reserve a room for two with common rooms including a cozy living room, a stunning kitchen and porches for mountain breezes.
    — Judith Garrison, AJC.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • There’s even a scene change to a jail common room, which shows a gray and disheveled Diddy tuning into 50’s acceptance speech.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The common room is lined with artwork and fake flowers (real flowers die, Max explains, when they’re frozen in ice); two little black dogs wag underfoot.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The nine-bedroom manor house retains historic details such as wide plank flooring and original fireplaces, as well as a library and multiple common rooms.
    — Katie Riley, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Staff and families filled a common room with cards, cake and cameras as the community turned a quiet January day into a rare event.
    — Nick Lunemann, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Launched in 2018 in Dover, New Hampshire, the initial idea was to have an all-women’s artist collective with studios surrounding a common room.
    — Deanna Taylor, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
  • No one sitting anywhere in the colossal common room, with its gleaming pine floors and Persian rugs, there was no one around the open fire, no one in the table game area or the tea nook, no one seated anywhere, despite a number of plump, chintz possibilities.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • The idea behind the Fisher House is to have multiple families in the house at the same time, sharing a kitchen and common rooms — a natural support network of military families helping one another.
    — Linda Stein, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
  • For example, another scene in the series depicts several couples conjugating simultaneously in a common room full of bunk beds, which definitely never happened.
    — Jane Borden, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Accessibility and Sustainability While much of the lodge is on a single level, the suites and common rooms have not been adapted for wheelchair users, and none are ADA-compliant.
    — Travis Levius, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
  • On a school night in 1986, Kim Reed — then a Duke senior — sat in a common room with her friends, debating when to line up for that Sunday’s Duke-UNC game.
    — Storey Wertheimer, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026

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