How to Use dayroom in a Sentence

dayroom

noun
  • His race through the dayroom, his white t-shirt soaked in blood.
    — Joseph Neff and Alysia Santo, USA TODAY, 25 June 2019
  • The lawsuit states that this is the first time any jail staff had been in the dayroom in six hours.
    — Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The dayroom was deserted aside from me and a friend, rolling around on the floor.
    — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • That includes at least seven hours of dayroom time and three hours in an exercise area.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The emergency beds were put in dayrooms in the pods, which individual cells look out on.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 3 June 2019
  • In response, Watts emptied his garbage bag and sent a full supply of dirty tennis balls spilling and bouncing across the dayroom.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
  • In the dayroom, women spread out into almost every corner of the cozy space and sort through underwear, socks, pants and shirts.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The $4 million project, styled like a cabin, has new sleeping quarters, a kitchen and dining room, a dayroom and laundry room.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Weidner opened the door to the dayroom outside Maricella’s cell.
    — jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • One afternoon earlier this year, a group of new guys sat in the common area of Lancaster’s dayroom.
    — Kunlyna Tauch, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
  • He was granted other privileges, including the freedom to walk around a dayroom and to eat in the general dining room.
    — Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The dayroom, a smaller room also attached to the dorm, contained a handful of desks and one television to serve its sixty residents.
    — Literary Hub july 8, Literary Hub, 8 July 2025
  • Eventually, the jailers ordered all of the inmates to the dayroom and left them there for a few hours before interviewing them about what happened.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Quidone walked past a correction officer, looking sick, and again vomited into a dayroom trash bin before moving sluggishly back to his cell.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
  • According to the arrest report, the incident began when a jail officer asked that Cruz not drag his sandals on the ground while walking around a dayroom area.
    — Eric Levenson, Amanda Watts and Jason Hanna, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
  • It was supposed to be a stopgap alternative to freeing inmates from prisons so crowded that inmates were bunked three-deep in gymnasiums and dayrooms.
    — USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
  • Around the same time, the supervisor went into the Crystal Cove Unit and staff told her a patient was unresponsive in the dayroom, records show.
    — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 6 July 2021
  • After inspecting the jail, an independent monitor cited instances on other floors where inmates were either alone in their cells or handcuffed to tables in the dayroom.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • According to arrest documents, Orphee was involved with breaking up a scuffle in the dayroom area of Pod 2A inside the jail.
    — Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 23 May 2017
  • Cynthia Brann, commissioner of the Department of Correction, displayed a rendering of the facilities that showed a large dayroom surrounded by jail cells, all bathed in sunlight.
    — Fox News, 11 July 2019
  • In one dayroom, the heat index exceeded 88 degrees for 121 consecutive days, 93 degrees for 35 straight days, 98 degrees for nine days, and reached 108 degrees for 34 hours without relief.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2025
  • On Sundays this fall, Robert Bryant and 70-some other inmates at Lancaster Work Camp in Trenton, Florida, gathered in the facility’s dayroom around a 50-inch Samsung flatscreen television.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 23 Nov. 2025

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